Since 2003, the Critical Inquiry Distinguished Visiting Professorship has been held by some of the world’s most renowned scholars. The CI Professor is in residence at the University of Chicago for an academic quarter, where he or she teaches a graduate seminar and offers two public lectures. In Spring 2021 we are proud to welcome Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Simon […]

We invite David Theo Goldberg, a scholar whose deep thinking about race and critical race theory (which examines how legal frameworks create, but can also correct injustices based on race), has informed and accompanied counter-colonizing thinkers such as Philomena Essed, Achille Mbembe, and Gloria Wekker. Goldberg will be in conversation with: Rokhaya Diallo; Wendy Hui Kyong Chun; and Nishant Shah, […]

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