Kawaii: Fraught Innocence in Asian (American) Commodity Culture

Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
@ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

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 …

If It Were Only the Blues

Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
@ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

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 …

Workshop with Saidiya Hartman

University Club, Room 212
@ 9:00 am - 10:30 am

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 …

A Serial Biography of the Wayward

Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
@ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

            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 …

Democracy in Black: Identity Politics in a Post-Soul Era

Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
@ 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm

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 …

Chaining: Theorizing African American Representations of Person and Past

Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L160
@ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

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, …

A Community-Wide Discussion of Ethics and Race

Mosse Humanities Building, Mills Hall
@ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

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 …