James Baldwin for Our Times: A Centennial Celebration

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Film Screening with Assistant Professor of Theater Isaiah Wooden
Wednesday, Oct. 30, 7 p.m.
LPAC, Cinema

Lecture by Eddie Glaude Jr.
Friday, Nov. 1, 7 p.m.
LPAC, Pearson-Hall Theatre

James Baldwin for Our Times: A Symposium
Saturday, Nov. 2, 11 a.m.–5 p.m.
Science Center 101, Chang Hou Hall

How does the inimitable Black writer James Baldwin (1924–1987) speak to us still? Celebrating the centennial of Baldwin’s birth, this series of events — a film screening, a lecture, and a symposium of public conversations among leading scholars — gathers a number of important thinkers to reflect on his relevance to our contemporary moment. Participants include Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (Princeton), Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman (Brown), Marquis Bey (Northwestern), Marlon Ross (University of Virginia), Savannah Shange (UC Santa Cruz), Maurice O. Wallace (Rutgers), and Dagmawi Woubshet (University of Pennsylvania).