Social Work, White Supremacy, and Racial Justice Symposium

Social work has a complex history of upholding White supremacy alongside a goal to achieve racial justice. Moreover, our profession simultaneously practices within racist systems and works to dismantle them. In the wake of a fervent #BlackLivesMatter movement and persistent racial disparities in key social welfare institutions, these paradoxes have come to the forefront of […]

Social Welfare Ph.D. Open Forum

Zoom

The Social Welfare Department is hosting biweekly open forums for PhD students, facilitated by Doctoral Program Chair, Ian Holloway. The second session for Winter Quarter will be held January 29th […]

LAERI Research & Policy Seminar

Virtual CA, United States

The Los Angeles Education Research Institute hosts a presentation and conversation about ensuring the success of a Community Schools model in Los Angeles.

Black Contributions to Social Welfare & Social Work

Justin Harty, a University of Chicago doctoral candidate and licensed clinical social worker, will speak about historical efforts to address anti-Blackness and racism in the profession of social work.

Book Talk Focusing on Mass Incarceration

Virtual CA, United States

Virtual event featuring author Reuben J. Miller, a sociologist studying mass incarceration and former chaplain at the Cook County Jail in Chicago.