Challenging Racial Knowledge in the University
"Challenging Racial Knowledge in the University" is a yearlong speaker series sponsored by the Mandel Center for the Humanities. The series seeks to foster expansive cross-disciplinary conversations around race, with a particular focus on original and unique scholarly methodologies. The further aim is to generate new ideas that more effectively challenge white bias and other oppressive supremacist structures that impact our classrooms and our wider communities, and to open up new patterns theoretically, pedagogically, and creatively.
Atlantic Genealogies of Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century
Annette Joseph-Gabriel
John Spencer Bassett Associate Professor of Romance Studies, Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, Duke University
Tuesday, November 7, 1:00-2:15 pm
The Residue of Inkface
Miles Parks Grier
Associate Professor of English, City University of New York
Friday, December 1, 2:00-3:20 pm
Between the ‘American Century’ and the ‘Asian Century’: Toward a New Paradigm for Understanding Racial Inequality
Chris Suh
Assistant Professor of History, Emory University
Friday, March 22, 2:00-3:20 pm
Translating Dance
Rachana Vajjhala
Assistant Professor of Music, Musicology, and Ethnomusicology, Boston University
Friday, April 19, 2:00-3:20 pm