BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Writing Black Lives PRODID:-//Harvard events data//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_1464394_0 SUMMARY:Writing Black Lives DESCRIPTION:

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-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.

LOCATION:Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20191011T201500Z DTEND:20191011T201500Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR