Charles C. & Dorothea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies Professor of American Studies Director of the Initiative on Race, Gender, and Globalization Yale University
Where Are You From?
Thursday, September 20, 2018 at 7:00pm
Kislak Center Otto G. Richter Library, 1300 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables, Florida 33146
Free & Open to the Public | Registration Required
The lecture will be drawn from Hazel Carby’s forthcoming book,Imperial Intimacies(Verso 2019), and will address issues of black belonging in the racist formation of the UK post-WWII.
On Carby's Race Men: “Carby’s voice is clear, well documented, courageous and loud… Carby consistently challenges her reader to look at race and masculinity in ways that are new, difficult, and often dangerous to our notions of self and of others….” — Jill Nelson, Women’s Review of Books
Hazel Carbyis Charles C. & Dorothea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies & American Studies, Professor of American Studies, and the Director of the Initiative on Race, Gender, and Globalization at Yale University. Her books includeReconstructing Womanhood(1987),Race Men(1998), andCultures in Babylon(1999). She was named the 2014 recipient of the Jay B. Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Achievement in American Literary Studies.
MAPS & DIRECTIONS
Please note: Per the University’s new parking policy, hourly parking rates will apply to all visitors from 8am to 11pm. Visitors will need to follow posted instructions to pay-by-phone or pay via the pay stations located throughout campus. For more information, please contact Parking and Transportation at 305-284-3096, option 2.
Learning Commons Flexible Program Space, First Floor, Richter Library For UM Faculty & Graduate Students (Lunch will be provided)
Registration Required
The topic of the Friday salon with Professor Hazel Carby will be her forthcoming bookImperial Intimacies. The occasion provides an opportunity to think about Carby’s intellectual formation, migrations, and interventions on both sides of the Atlantic. Participants will have an opportunity to ask a wide range of questions about the historical and contemporary issues on which Carby’s scholarship has consistently intervened. Excerpts fromImperial Intimacieswill be provided to all registrants.
