Past Event Category: Nellie Y. McKay Lecture in the Humanities
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Sep 14Kawaii: Fraught Innocence in Asian (American) Commodity Culture
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
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 stronghold of consumption in various parts of the industrial world in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, particularly with …
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Feb 23If It Were Only the Blues
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
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 a champion of the importance of diversifying the academy, enhancing graduate education, re-visioning the liberal arts, exploring the role of …
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Oct 10Workshop with Saidiya Hartman
University Club, Room 212
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 …
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Oct 9A Serial Biography of the Wayward
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
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 social upheaval and radical transformation of everyday life that took place in the American slums between 1890-1920. Saidiya Hartman …
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Apr 24Sushi, Otters, and Mermaids: Race at the Intersection of Food and Animal Studies
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L160
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 a scene of sushi eating in David Wong Louie’s short story “Bottles of Beaujolais” as a springboard into a larger …
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Mar 7Democracy in Black: Identity Politics in a Post-Soul Era
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
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 explores how “whiteness” continues to distort American democracy, disfiguring our precious ideals into unsightly and dangerous justification for ugly practices …
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Mar 22Chaining: Theorizing African American Representations of Person and Past
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L160
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, to signify the tight links, but open spaces in conceptualizing and articulating person and in recollecting and representing past in …
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Mar 24A Community-Wide Discussion of Ethics and Race
Mosse Humanities Building, Mills Hall
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 through the Go Big Read! program. Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, the Institute for Research in the Humanities, …
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Feb 7Freedom’s Journal’s “Love Ditties” and Other Writings of Courtship and Marriage in Early African America
2008 Nellie Y. McKay Lecture in the Humanities: Frances Smith Foster