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Mansfield Institute for Social Justice

Since its founding in 1945, Roosevelt University has pursued the mission of providing higher education to students of diverse racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds without quotas or restrictions. In a variety of ways, the University has attempted to apply the values of the two great Americans for whom it is name, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.

The Institute for Social Justice, created in 1999 through a generous gift from the Mansfield Foundation, gives Roosevelt University a unique opportunity to develop an integrated program of curriculum, research, and outreach focused on social justice issues.

Social Justice Studies is offered by the Mansfield Institute for Social Justice as a regular part of the academic curriculum at Roosevelt.

Join us for this upcoming Lecture Series presented by the History Department
Sponsored by the Mansfield Institute for Social Justice

One Book/One University

Read with us and join us for thought-provoking discussions.
Bring your lunch. Beverages will be provided.

  • Feb 28, Thursday, 12:30-2:00 p.m., AUD720
  • March 6, Thursday, 12:30-2:00 p.m., AUD720
Mansfield Lecturer – Alex Kotlowitz – There are No Children Here
March 13, 2008

Former New Yorker and Wall Street Journal reporter Alex Kotlowitz relocated to Chicago in the 1980s to do research for his first book, There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing up in the Other America, about life inside the city’s public housing projects. His second book, The Other Side of The River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America’s Dilemma, delves into racial and socio-economic issues in Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Michigan. Kotlowitz’s most recent book, Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago, chronicles the city he describes as "a stew of contradictions." Currently, Alex Kotlowitz is a senior lecturer in journalism at Northwestern University, and he will be the lecturer for Roosevelt University’s Mansfield Institute for Social Justice in March 2008 when There Are No Children Here is the fifth annual "One Book, One University" selection at Roosevelt. Please contact the Director of the Mansfield Institute, Heather Dalmage, if you'd like more information at 312.341.3692 or by e-mail: hdalmage@roosevelt.edu.

New Directions in the History of Grassroots
Protest Movements in America

Advanced readings of the following books are suggested for an enriched experience and discussion. Please contact Professor Erik Gellman at egellman@roosevelt.edu to obtain the readings.

  • Session 1: Thursday, March 6th at 3:15: Jim Wolfinger on his book: Philadelphia Divided
  • Session 2: Thursday, April 10th at 3:15: Nelson Peery on his new memoir: Black Radical
  • Session 3: Thursday, May 1st at 3:15: Martha Biondi, articles TBA on reparations movement and/or origins of Black Studies

Tuesday, Dec. 4 |11:00 am-12:15 pm | AUD244

Roosevelt University's Revolutionary Economics Department, 1945-1955

Join Dr. Rolf Weil, President Emeritus and Professor of Finance and Economics, in a conversation about the thinkers and ideas that shaped Roosevelt's Economics department during the post-World War II period.

This event is free and open to the public. Persons requiring special accommodations or further information should contact Allison Rickard, Mansfield Scholar, Department of Economics.
Email: allison.rickard@mymail.roosevelt.edu, phone: (312) 341-3743.

Tuesday, Dec. 4 | 4:00pm-6:00pm | AUD320

Dorothy Roberts Colloquium
Race, Gender, and Genetic Technologies: A New Reproductive Dystopia

This event will be limited to 12 sociology students (with graduates getting first priority) and 12 women and gender studies students (with graduate getting first priority). Student should RSVP to probert@roosevelt.edu by Monday, Nov. 26. After that date, slots will be opened to undergraduates and other interested persons. There will also be a waiting list, so undergraduates can RSVP if interested.


There Are No Children Here book

One Book, One University:
There Are No Children Here
The Story of Two Boys Growing up in the Other America

Mansfield Lecturer Alex Kotlowitz
Tuesday, Mar. 13, 2008
4:30 - 6 p.m.
Congress Lounge
Auditorium Building
Download the event flyer [PDF - 1.3 MB]

"A powerful argument against the politics of inertia, hopelessness and greed and for a real war on poverty, violence and racism in our country."
— Tracy Kidder, author of Among Schoolchildren

Former New Yorker and Wall Street Journal reporter Alex Kotlowitz relocated to Chicago in the 1980s to do research for his first book, There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing up in the Other America, about life inside the city’s public housing projects. His second book, The Other Side of The River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America’s Dilemma, delves into racial and socio-economic issues in Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Michigan. Kotlowitz’s most recent book, Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago, chronicles the city he describes as "a stew of contradictions." Currently, Alex Kotlowitz is a senior lecturer in journalism at Northwestern University, and he will be the lecturer for Roosevelt University’s Mansfield Institute for Social Justice in March 2008 when There Are No Children Here is the fifth annual "One Book, One University" selection at Roosevelt.

Tubeho Project
November 6 through December 5, 2006

Gender Based Violence
Monday, November 20, 2006 6pm-8pm

Heather Dalmage
Director of the Mansfield Institute for Social Justice
hdalmage@roosevelt.edu
312-341-3692

Lynn Weiner, Dean
College of Arts and Sciences

THE MANSFIELD INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
Roosevelt University
430 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60605-1394

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