University of Chicago symposium aims to ‘slow down’ Obama library development

Confirmed speakers for the March 7 symposium include Charles A. Birnbaum, president of The Cultural Landscape Foundation, a D.C.-based nonprofit; Naomi Davis, the founder of two Chicago grassroots organizations, Blacks in Green and the Bronzeville Regional Collective; Barbara Ransby, a professor of African American, gender and women’s studies at the University of Illinois; Michael Sorkin, a prominent architect who heads the New York-based Michael Sorkin Studio; and Jacqueline Stewart, a professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago.