Endeavors Colloquium – Fall 2017

              1.

Erna Brodber, Author of Nothing’s Mat (2014)
Claudia Rankine, Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry, Yale University

“Emancipation in Woodside: Erna Brodber in Conversation with Claudia Rankine”

Sponsored by the Windham Campbell Prizes, the Afro-American Cultural Center and the African American Studies Department Endeavors Colloquium

● Friday, September 15, 2017 | 4:00 pm | Afro-American Cultural Center (211 Park Street)

             2.

Matthew Jacobson
William Robertson Coe Professor of American Studies, History, Prof. of African American Studies; Chair, Ethnicity, Race and Migration Program, Yale University

Film Screening and Discussion: “A Long Walk from Home: the Untold Story of Baseball’s Desegregation”

Sponsored by the African American Studies Department Endeavors Colloquium

● Thursday, October 12, 2017 | 11:45 am – 1:30 pm | Gordon Parks Room (201, 81 Wall Street)

              3.

Brittney Cooper
Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana Studies, Rutgers University

“Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women”

Sponsored by the African American Studies Department Endeavors Colloquium

● Thursday, October 26, 2017 | 11:45 am-1:30 pm | Gordon Parks Room (201, 81 Wall Street)

               4.

James Forman, Jr.
Professor of Law, Yale University Law School

“Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America”

Sponsored by the African American Studies Department Endeavors Colloquium

● Thursday, November 9, 2017 | 11:45 am-1:30 pm | Gordon Parks Room (201, 81 Wall Street)

                 5.

Brent Hayes Edwards
Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

“The James Weldon Johnson Memorial Lecture”  

Sponsored by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

● Thursday, November 30, 2017 | 4 pm | Beinecke Library Mezzanine, (121 Wall Street)

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“Brent Hayes Edwards in conversation with the Black Sound & the Archive Working Group on jazz, literary theory, and archival research”

Sponsored by the African American Studies Department Endeavors Colloquium

● Friday, December 1, 2017 | 10 am-12 noon |