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February 2008
Freedom’s Journal’s “Love Ditties” and Other Writings of Courtship and Marriage in Early African America
Photo: Mike Lovett 2008 Nellie Y. McKay Lecture in the Humanities: Frances Smith Foster Charles Howard Candler Professor of English & Women's Studies; Associated Faculty in African American Studies and in American Studies, Emory University
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A Community-Wide Discussion of Ethics and Race
2011 Nellie Y. McKay Lecture in the Humanities: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University Professor Gates' talk will deepen the community-wide discussion of ethics and race launched this fall…
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Chaining: Theorizing African American Representations of Person and Past
2012 Nellie Y. McKay Lecture in the Humanities Thadious Davis Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania In this talk, I am using a term, chaining,…
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Democracy in Black: Identity Politics in a Post-Soul Era
2013 Nellie Y. McKay Lecture: Eddie Glaude, Jr. William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African American Studies, Department of Religion, and Chair, Center for African American Studies, Princeton University In his lecture, Glaude…
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Sushi, Otters, and Mermaids: Race at the Intersection of Food and Animal Studies
2014 Nellie Y. McKay Lecture in the Humanities: Anne Cheng English and the Center for African American Studies, Princeton University What do sushi, food, race, and anthropology have to do with each other? Taking…
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A Serial Biography of the Wayward
2014 Nellie Y. McKay Lecture in the Humanities: Saidiya Hartman Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University Drawing from her new book project, the lecture examines the…
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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…
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If It Were Only the Blues
2016 Nellie Y. McKay Lecture in the Humanities: Earl Lewis Historian, President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Earl Lewis is President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. A well-regarded social historian, he has been…
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Kawaii: Fraught Innocence in Asian (American) Commodity Culture
2016 Nellie Y. McKay Lecture in the Humanities: Christine Yano Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawaii Pink globalization, the spread of cute goods from Japan to other parts of the world, has been a…
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Workshop with Christina Sharpe and Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
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…
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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…
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The Insular-Real: Islands, Archipelagoes, and Questions of Scale
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…
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Currency: Race and the Circulation of the American Ideal
Nellie Y. McKay Lecture in the Humanities: Jonathan Holloway
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Who and Whose We Are: Nellie Y. McKay and the Legacies of Black Women’s Intellectualism
Nellie Y. McKay Lecture in the Humanities: Shanna Greene Benjamin
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The Body Is the Text: One Woman’s American Narrative
Nellie Y. McKay Lecture in the Humanities: Caroline Randall Williams
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