Lectures in Black Literature and Culture
A series of four talks on the state of the field in Black literary and cultural studies
presented every Friday in March, from noon to 1:30pm.
We hope you can join us for one or all of these special English Department lectures.
Please note: Advance registration is required for access to each lecture.
Registration links can be found below each of the presentations listed.
March 5, 2021 Noon-1:30pm
Cajetan Iheka, Associate Professor, Department of English, Yale University
Title of Talk: The Media Turn in the Environmental Humanities: Insights from a Black Oil Ecology
Register in advance for this lecture:
https://amherstcollege.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WPl98en7QGqPtP6U801Pyw
March 12, 2021, Noon-1:30pm
Yomaira C. Figueroa Vásquez, Associate Professor, Department of English, African American & African Studies, Michigan State University
Title of Talk: Archives of Indictment: Afro-Atlantic Literatures & the Decolonial Turn
Register in advance for this lecture:
https://amherstcollege.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_63pO1CxGR6q_4fm_prczcw
March 19, 2021, Noon-1:30pm
Candice M. Jenkins, Professor of English and African American Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Title of Talk: Towards a Theory of Speculative Pessimism
Register in advance for this lecture:
https://amherstcollege.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Klsuz7UQRZyz875Z7Mj1Og
March 26, 2021, Noon-1:30pm
Kelly Baker Josephs, Professor of English and Digital Humanities, York College, CUNY and the CUNY Graduate School
Title of Talk: Caribbean...in Digital Space and Time
Register in advance for this lecture:
https://amherstcollege.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_prWBGa-9TLSTh0i6_DOIKw
