FRIDAY FORUM + CONVERSATION CAFÉ
Fall 2024 Series
Please join the University YMCA and Diversity & Social Justice Education for our Fall 2024 Friday Forum + Conversation Café series. We will hear from community leaders tackling our most pressing public concerns through an unwavering pursuit of social justice. We are excited to focus the fall series towards Democracy.
All presentations are open to the public and free on Fridays at 12 PM in Latzer Hall at the University YMCA.
An audio recording of each program can be heard the following Wednesday at 6-7 pm on WEFT 90.1 FM community radio.
10/18 – Jeremy Hobson, “The Middle” Podcast
10/25 – Rev. Terrance Thomas, Bethel AME Church, and Pastor Michael Crosby, First Mennonite Church of C-U – Understanding White Christian Nationalism
11/1 – Steve Schwinn, University of Illinois Chicago College of Law – The Supreme Court and Democracy
11/8 – Ilana Redstone, University of Illinois Sociology – The Certainty Trap: Democracy’s Existential Threat
11/15 – Provost John Coleman, University of Illinois – Election 2024 on Campus and Across the Country