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ENDEAVORS COLLOQUIUM
“Settlement and Slavery in the Imagination of US Foreign Policy”
Nikhil Singh
Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, History, New York University
Thurs. Feb. 26, 2015
11:45-1:15pm
African American Studies Dept., Gordon Parks Room 201,
81 Wall St.
Nikhil Singh is Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, History at New York University.
Exceptional Empire: Race and War in US Globalism is his forthcoming book from Harvard UP. Singh is the author of
Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy
(Harvard, 2005), which won the 2005 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award
sponsored by the Organization of American Historians and the 2005 Norris
and Carol Hundley Award, Pacific Coast Branch
of the American Historical Association.
Sponsored by the Dept. of African American Studies
Conversation
“Slavery, Freedom, and Performance: A Critical
Conversation with Obie Award-Winning Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins”
Mon. Feb. 23, 2015 | 4:30pm
African American Studies Dept., Gordon Parks Room 201,
81 Wall St.
Cosponsored by
the Program in Theater Studies, the Department of African American
Studies, and the Yale College Dean's Office Arts Discretionary Fund
Conversation
“A Discussion of Contemporary African American Poetry and Culture”
Kevin Young, Atticus
Haygood Professor of Creative Writing and English; Curator of Literary
Collections and the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library, Emory University
Elizabeth Alexander,
Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry; Professor of African American Studies and American Studies, Yale University
Wed. Feb. 25, 2015 | 1:00 PM
Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG), 1111 Chapel St. |
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PUBLIC SERVICE
Jaynes to lend expertise at Congressional inquiry
Gerald Jaynes will
provide testimony in Washington, D.C., next week, as one of several
economists called upon to share their expertise on national financial
concerns probed by
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Elijah Cummings
(D-MD).
The hearing will air on C-Span. Watch for further details.
Gerald
Jaynes is professor of Economics and African American Studies, and
Director of Graduate Studies in the Dept. of African American Studies at
Yale University.
AWARD
Carby recognized for distinguished scholarship in Humanities
Hazel
Carby has been named the Frank M Updike Memorial Scholar by the Phi
Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program for 2015-2016.
The designation is awarded to a “distinguished scholar in the
humanities, especially one who is prepared to address intercultural
relations.”
Hazel V. Carby,
Ph.D., Birmingham University, England, 1984, is the Charles C. and
Dorothea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies, Professor of
American Studies, and
Director of the Initiative on Race Gender and Globalization at Yale
University.
ICYMI
Elijah Anderson's article,
“The White Space,”
has just been published as the lead article in the American Sociological Association's inaugural issue of
Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.
Elijah Anderson is the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Sociology at Yale University
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Image: "August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand" airs on Friday, February 20, 2015, PBS. |
http://to.pbs.org/172E0Mz
Yale Repertory Theatre originally produced six of the ten plays that
make up August Wilson's "Century Cycle," the acclaimed series of plays
in which Wilson depicts an aspect of African American cultural life
through each decade of the 20th century.
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