Workshop in conjunction with 2014 Nellie Y. McKay Lecture in the Humanities:
Saidiya Hartman
Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Informal conversation (9:00-10:30 A.M.) and breakfast (quiche, oatmeal, fruit, and beverages available in Room 212 after 8:30 A.M.). Hartman will open the conversation with a few brief remarks. Susan Friedman will moderate a wide-ranging discussion that may incorporate questions and comments about Hartman’s McKay Lecture, past work, current work, and/or the status of the fields in which she works.
RSVPs are encouraged and appreciated, but not required. If you are able to attend, please email rsvp@irh.wisc.edu by October 7.
Saidiya Hartman is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and has served as the director of the Institute for Research on Women, Gender & Sexuality. She is the author of Lose Your Mother (Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2007) and Scenes of Subjection (Oxford University Press 2007). She has published several articles on slavery, including “Venus in Two Acts” and “The Time of Slavery.”
This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Research in the Humanities, the Center for the Humanities, the Department of Afro-American Studies, the English Department, and the Gender and Women’s Studies Department.