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Symposium: “Cross-Disciplinary Conversations on Race and Racism” March 11, 2-5pm, 201 Pray Harrold Program Introduction: Robin Lucy on Rankine; Natasa Kovacevic on Bhabha   Roundtable One: The Visual Citizen (2:10-2:55pm) Participants: Martha Jones (U of M), Toni Pressley-Sanon (EMU), Brendon Fay (EMU) Moderator: Christine Hume (EMU)   Roundtable Two: Inter-Cultural Communication/Paradigms (3-3:50pm) Participants: Ana Ferreira […]

Biography Rankine was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1963 and moved with her parents to the Bronx when she was seven years old. She holds a B.A. in English from Williams College and an M.F.A. in poetry from Columbia University. She was the Henry G. Lee Professor of English at Pomona College from 2006 – […]

 

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/claudia-rankine Born in Kingston, Jamaica, poet Claudia Rankine earned a BA at Williams College and an MFA at Columbia University. Rankine has published several collections of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric (2014), a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, the PEN Center USA Poetry Award, […]

  Homi Bhabha presented his lecture as part of the Townsend Center for the Humanities’ Forum on the Humanities and the Public World. Bhabha is Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language and Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard University. Considered one of the most important figures in postcolonial studies, […]