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| Posted 09.15.06 |
Fall Features Lecture Series on Slavery, Distinguished Presenters
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The Center for African American Studies is
hosting a fall lecture series titled "Revisiting Slavery." The schedule
includes:
“Slavery and the United States Constitution”
4:15 Sept. 27 in the CAAS lounge by Lawrence Goldstone. Goldstone holds a
Ph.D in American constitutional studies. He is the author of Dark Bargain:
Slavery, Profits, and the Struggle for the U.S. Constitution.
“Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from
Slavery”
4:15 p.m. Oct. 19 in the CAAS lounge by Anne Farrow, Joel Lang and Jenifer
Frank.
Farrow, Wesleyan alumnus Joel Lang and Frank are veteran journalists for The
Hartford Courant. Farrow and Lang were the lead writers and Frank was the
editor of a special slavery issue published in the newspaper’s Sunday
magazine, which has since been expanded and published as the book,
Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery.
"Cultivating Freedom: Slavery, Emancipation, and Enterprise in Colonial
New England”
4:15 p.m. Nov. 8 in the CAAS lounge by Lois Brown.
Brown, an associate professor of English at Mount Holyoke College,
specializes in 19th-century African American fiction. She has won awards for
her discovery and republication of a largely unknown 1835 biography of a
freeborn African American child. She is currently working on a book about
African American novelist Pauline Hopkins.
“American Slavery: A Most Complete Story”
4:15 p.m. Nov. 29 in the CAAS lounge by Gerald Foster.
Foster is a scholar-in-residence at the United States National Slavery
Museum, the first American museum dedicated to the history of slavery. The
museum is currently under construction in Fredericksburg, Va.
Other fall events include:
“The Need to Question”
8 p.m. Sept. 14 by choreographer Bill T. Jones. Jones is famous for creating
powerful works that fearlessly explore sexuality, race, politics, family and
mortality.
“Another Evening”
8 p.m. Sept. 15 and 16 in the Center for the Arts Theater. A pre-show talk
begins at 7:15 p.m. Sept. 15 in the CFA cinema.
Bill T. Jones and the Arnie Zane Dance Company will present an ever-evolving
90-minute collage interweaving new movement, excerpts from existing
repertoire, original and traditional music, and text into a vibrant
multimedia work.
“A Discussion with Immortal Technique”
4:30 p.m. Sept. 22 in the CAAS lounge.
Hip-hop artist and political activist Immortal Technique addresses a wide
variety of contemporary political issues in his music, including U.S.
foreign policy, police brutality, political killings by the FBI and the CIA,
media censorship, and economic inequality. Born in Peru, “Tech” came with
his family to Harlem when he was a child. His albums include
Revolutionary Vol. 1 (2001), Revolutionary Vol. 2 (2003), and
The Middle Passage (2006), all released by the independent label, Viper
Records.
A Reading by Author Nathaniel Mackey
8 p.m. Sept. 27 in the Russell House.
Mackey’s works of poetry include Eroding Witness (1985), School of Udhra
(1993), Whatsaid Serif (1998), and Splay Anthem (2006). He also is the
author of two critical volumes and an ongoing prose work, of which three
volumes have been published. Mackey’s work is keenly attentive to sound and
to the role of writers as cultural workers. He is a chancellor of the
Academy of American Poets, a DJ, and professor of literature at the
University of California, Santa Cruz. The event is co-sponsored by the
Edward W. Snowdon Fund and the Wesleyan Writing Program.
“Democracy and Captivity: Race and the Penal Landscape" by Joyce
James
8 p.m. Oct. 12 in the CFA Theater.
James is a professor of African studies and political science at Williams
College. Her work focuses on political and feminist theory, critical race
theory, and incarceration. She is the author or editor of many publications
including Resisting State Violence: Gender, Race, and Radicalism in U.S.
Culture (1996), The Angela Y. Davis Reader (1998), States of Confinement:
Policing, Detention and Prisons (2000, revised edition 2002), and Imprisoned
Intellectuals: America's Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and
Rebellion (2003). This talk was organized by WESPREP.
“The War in Iraq” presented by Jonathan Cutler, associate professor
of sociology and associate professor of American Studies
Noon Oct. 23 in the CAAS lounge.
The talk is part of the CAAS’s Pizza and Policy Lunch series. Lunch is
provided.
A Discussion of Stem Cell Research
Lori Gruen, associate professor of philosophy and associate professor and
chair of the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program
Noon Nov. 20 in the CAAS lounge.
The talk is part of the CAAS’s Pizza and Policy Lunch series. Lunch is
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