#  Writing Black Lives 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **October 11, 2019** 

 04:15PM - 04:15PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138**  



 

 



 

 The authors Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Imani Perry, and Robert Reid-Pharr will join in conversation to discuss how their work as biographers speaks to key contemporary discussions about black politics, community, identity, and life.

 Perry will consider her recent book, *Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry,* while Reid-Pharr and Brown-Nagin will share perspectives from their own research, writing, and forthcoming books on, respectively, James Baldwin and Constance Baker Motley.

 To register, visit **[www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2019-writing-black-lives-panel-discussi…](http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2019-writing-black-lives-panel-discussion).**

 Speakers:

- Introduction by **Robin Bernstein**, Dillon Professor of American History and professor of African and African American studies and studies of women, gender, and sexuality
- **Tomiko Brown-Nagin**, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School; professor of history, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
- **Imani Perry**, Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies and faculty associate in the Program in Law and Public Affairs and the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Princeton University
- **Robert Reid-Pharr**, professor of studies of women, gender, and sexuality and of African American studies, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

 **The event is free and open to the public. We encourage you to share this invitation with people you know who may be interested.**



 

 



 

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