The Conversation: Film Screening & Talkback with Michael Denning
The Conversation (1974), Talkback with Michael Denning, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American Studies and English and Chair of American Studies
General Public
Khalil Johnson: Private Education and American Democracy
Khalil Johnson is an Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Wesleyan University
https://www.wesleyan.edu/academics/faculty/kajohnson01/profile.html
POSTPONED: Rod Ferguson: The Heterodoxies of Black Contemporary Art: Carrie Mae Weems, 'The Hampton Project,' and the Tall Tale of Power
THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED TO A LATER DATE. MORE INFORMATION TO COME.
Rod Ferguson is a Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and of American Studies. Ferguson’s talk is based on a manuscript-in-progress that analyzes how contemporary Black art and writings from the Black radical tradition converse with one another in their assessments of the ravages of racial capitalism, colonialism, and heteropatriarchy.
CANCELLED: Boyz n the Hood (1991): Film Screening and Talkback
Talk back with Stephanie Allain, Homegrown Films
CANCELLED: A Conversation on Contemporary Theater
Jacob Padron and Marc Robinson
POSTPONED- Public Humanities Library Talk - Mary Lui
Professor Mary Lui’s lecture at the Wilson Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library, originally scheduled for this evening, has been POSTPONED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER. An alternate date and time will be announced in the coming weeks.
“Mr. Saund Goes to Washington” This talk discusses the historic 1956 election of Congressman Dalip Singh Saund, the first Asian American elected to the U.S. Congress. Mary Lui will discuss the political, cultural, and social significance of Saund’s campaign and victory in the context of the 1950s Cold War.
