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- Symposium: Wyatt Tee Walker and the Politics of Black ReligionFeb20All DayWyatt Tee Walker and the Politics of Black Religion will bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to critically engage the complex politics of black religion through the lens of the life, thought, and practice of Wyatt Tee Walker. This national symposium will highlight Walker’s strategic role in the modern black freedom movement as well as his deep engagement in politics and... Continue reading
- Symposium: Wyatt Tee Walker and the Politics of Black ReligionFeb21All DayWyatt Tee Walker and the Politics of Black Religion will bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to critically engage the complex politics of black religion through the lens of the life, thought, and practice of Wyatt Tee Walker. This national symposium will highlight Walker’s strategic role in the modern black freedom movement as well as his deep engagement in politics and... Continue reading
- University Dancers' 35th Annual ConcertFeb287:30 PM - 10:00 PMIn conjunction with the Tucker-Boatwright Festival of Literature and the Arts ... Continue reading
- WRITERS SERIES - Lauren GroffMar047:00 PM - 9:30 PMLauren Groff is the author of three novels and two short-story collections, including The Monsters of Templeton, Delicate Edible Birds, and Arcadia (a New York Times Notable Book and winner of the Medici Book Club Prize). Her third novel, Fates and Furies, was a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the 2015... Continue reading
- WRITERS SERIES - Laura SimsMar187:00 PM - 9:30 PMLaura Sims grew up in Richmond and attended the College of William and Mary. She is most recently the author of Looker, a psychological thriller published by Scribner in January 2019. As People magazine describes it, “In Sims’s creepy debut, a woman fixates on the actress living across the street, admiration tilting into pathology as events in her own... Continue reading
- Marshall Center Lecture Series: David W. BlightMar197:00 PM - 8:15 PMThe Marshall Center Lecture Series presents Pulitzer Prize-winning author David W. Blight, Sterling Professor of History, African American Studies, and American Studies, and director, The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University, for a discussion on Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, Thurs., March 19 at 7 p.m. in the Jepson Alumni... Continue reading
- Jepson Leadership Forum: André BrockMar257:00 PM - 8:30 PMThe Jepson Leadership Forum presents André Brock, associate professor, School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology, for a discussion on Racial Representation in Technoculture on Wed., March 25, at 7 p.m. in the Jepson Alumni Center. The event is free and open to the public but advance registration is required. For more information and to register... Continue reading
- Sharp Viewpoint Series: Eboo PatelMar317:00 PM - 9:00 PMThe Clean Air of Civil Discourse: Advancing Interfaith CooperationEBOO PATELFounder and President of Interfaith Youth Core, Former Member of President Barack Obama’s Inaugural Faith Council, and Author of Out of Many Faiths... Continue reading
- BienvenueApr037:30 PM - 9:00 PMIn conjunction with the Tucker-Boatwright Festival of Literature and the Arts ... Continue reading
- BienvenueApr047:30 PM - 9:00 PMIn conjunction with the Tucker-Boatwright Festival of Literature and the Arts ... Continue reading
