After the performance on Sunday, June 23, join us for this one-hour panel discussion with experts on the theme of the play, moderated by Black Sunday dramaturgs Bryar Barborka and J. Isabel Salazar and featuring esteemed guest panelists:

Geraldo Cadava is a professor of History and Latina and Latino Studies at Northwestern University, where he directs the Program in American Studies. He is also a Contributing Writer at The New Yorker, and the author of two books, The Hispanic Republican and Standing On Common Ground. Originally from Tucson, Arizona, he has lived in Chicago with his family for the past fifteen years (and counting).

Dr. Alex E. Chávez is an artist-scholar-producer, and the Nancy O’Neill Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, where he is also a Faculty Fellow of the Institute for Latino Studies. His research—which is widely published across anthropology, Latinx studies, and ethnomusicology—explores articulations of Latinx sounds and aurality in relation to race, migration, and the intimacies that bind lives across physical and cultural borders

Elena Herrada is a lifelong Detroiter, amateur oral historian of Mexicans from Detroit—focused mainly on the period of the Great Depression and Mexican repatriation. A graduate of Wayne State University, a former industrial union local president, former elected Detroit School Board member, and currently part of grassroots organization Detroiters for Tax Justice, Elena is the granddaughter of Mexican repatriados from Aguas Calientes and Detroit, and co producer of film Los Repatriados: Exiles from the Promised Land (2001).

This Sunday Scholars discussion will last approximately one hour and is FREE and open to the public. If you would like to attend but are not attending the show that day, please arrive by 3:30pm and you can enter the theatre once the performance concludes. Questions? Call the Box Office at 773.281.8463 x6.