Past Event Category: Nellie Y. McKay Lecture in the Humanities
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Apr 8My Mother was a KeyPunch Operator (But She Never Learned to Drive)
6191 Helen C. White Hall (600 N Park St.)
Nellie Y. McKay Lecture in the Humanities: Wendy Chun
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Nov 1Literary Narrative Confronting a ‘Just and Orderly Transition’
Elvehjem Building L140, 800 University Avenue
Hilldale Lecture: Karen Pinkus
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Mar 20“So Ruff, So Tuff”: Legacies of Black Midwestern Art and Struggle
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
Nellie Y. McKay Lecture in the Humanities: Nicole R. Fleetwood
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Apr 20Shocking but Not Surprising: The Origins of Anti-Asian Racism in the U.S.
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
Nellie Y. McKay Lecture in the Humanities: Mae Ngai
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Apr 28The Body Is the Text: One Woman’s American Narrative
https://humanities.wisc.edu/events/entry/caroline-randall-williams
Nellie Y. McKay Lecture in the Humanities: Caroline Randall Williams
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Apr 28Who and Whose We Are: Nellie Y. McKay and the Legacies of Black Women’s Intellectualism
Online
Nellie Y. McKay Lecture in the Humanities: Shanna Greene Benjamin
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Feb 6Currency: Race and the Circulation of the American Ideal
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
Nellie Y. McKay Lecture in the Humanities: Jonathan Holloway
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Oct 10The Insular-Real: Islands, Archipelagoes, and Questions of Scale
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
2018 Nellie Y. McKay Lecture in the Humanities: Michelle Stephens Professor of English and Latino and Caribbean Studies and Dean of the Humanities, Rutgers University The question of scale has always been central to island studies. Whether through an engagement with relational and archipelagic forces, the employment of fractals, or the prominent positioning of …
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Oct 19BLACK. STILL. LIFE.
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
2017 Nellie Y. McKay Lecture in the Humanities Christina Sharpe English, Tufts University In In the Wake, Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the “orthography of the wake.” Activating multiple registers of “wake”—the path behind a ship, keeping watch with the dead, coming to …
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Oct 19Workshop with Christina Sharpe and Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
University Club, Room 212
Workshop: Christina Sharpe English, Tufts University 2017 Nellie Y. McKay Lecturer In our changing climate, severe storms have become both aberrant and quotidian. Please join us for a conversation about “The Weather” and how the afterlife of slavery suffuses our present-day environment with Christina Sharpe, the 2017 Nellie Y. McKay Lecturer, and Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, …