Chicago and Afrofuturism on Feb. 20

Stacie Williams, Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship at the University of Chicago Library, will interview Dr. Eve L. Ewing on the subject of Chicago and Afrofuturism at the Chicago Public Library. Ewing's most recent book is 1919.

Date: Thursday, February 20, 2020
Time: 6-7:30 pm
Location: Harold Washington Library Center, 400 S. State Street, Chicago

Seating in the Auditorium is available first come, first served (385 maximum). Books will be available for purchase. 

Eve L. Ewing is a writer and sociologist from Chicago. Her books include Electric Arches (2017), Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side (2018) and 1919 (2019). She also writes for Marvel Comics. Her first book for middle-grade readers, Maya and the Robot, is forthcoming in 2020 by Kokila.

Stacie Williams is the Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship at the University of Chicago Library. Williams formerly managed the digital scholarship program at Case Western Reserve University's Kelvin Smith Library. She is an advisory archivist for A People's Archive of Police Violence in Cleveland and has worked at Harvard University, the University of Kentucky and the Lexington (Ky.) Public Library. She also has more than a decade of experience as a journalist, writing and editing for progressive and alternative media outlets. Her post-MLS work has largely centered around issues of labor and cultural production, access, and liberatory archives. She serves on the advisory board for the Digital Library Federation and the advisory board for Documenting the Now, which aims to create best practices around sharing social media data.