Race, Representation, Resistance: Cultural Criticism in the Digital Age

From: Daniel McNeil <[email protected]>

Dear Colleagues,

We have great pleasure in inviting you to a symposium on 'Race,
Representation, Resistance: Cultural Criticism in the Digital Age.'

Location: Courtelyou Commons, 2324 N. Fremont St., DePaul University,
Chicago

Date/Time: March 7th, 4-9pm.


This free public event will address the provocative, explorative and
suggestive work of cultural critics in the digital age. It is particularly
interested in how cultural critics address an age that is repeatedly
depicted as post-soul, post-race and post-black.

The symposium will feature three exceptionally talented, perceptive, and
incisive writers who have consistently produced intellectual work that
deepens our interest in arts and culture; reveals new meanings and
perspectives; expands our sense of culture; confronts our assumptions about
value and taste; and sharpens our ability to respond to cultural texts.

Lewis Gordon teaches in the Department of Philosophy and the Institute for
African American Studies, with affiliation in Judaic Studies, at the
University of Connecticut at Storrs. He previously taught at Temple
University (where he was a Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy and
founded and directed the Center for AfroJewish Studies and the Institute
for the Study of Race and Social Thought), Brown University and Purdue
University. He will deliver a talk relating to his recent work on the
market colonization of the virtual public sphere.

Armond White is the editor of City Arts, for which he also writes articles
and reviews. He was previously the lead film critic for the alternative
weekly New York Press (1997–2011) and the arts editor and critic for The
City Sun (1984–1996). His presentation is entitled, ‘Monster: How Celebrity
Effects Black Identity,’ and will use key texts (literary, cinematic,
musical) from the early 1900s to the present that detail the evolution of
Black Power as both an aesthetic and political construct.

Francesca Royster is a Professor of English at DePaul University who has
written widely about Shakespeare, Race and Gender, Black Feminisms,
Cultural Studies and Popular Culture, and Literature and Film. Her talk
will trace a rebellious spirit in post-civil rights black music by
addressing a range of offbeat, eccentric, queer, or slippery performances
by leading musicians influenced by the cultural changes brought about by
the civil rights, black nationalist, feminist, and LGBTQ movements.

Refreshments will be served at the event.
Please contact Daniel McNeil ([email protected]) to RSVP.

Dr Daniel McNeil,
Ida B. Wells-Barnett Professor of African and Black Diaspora Studies,
2320 N. Kenmore Avenue, Suite 573A,
DePaul University,
Chicago, IL 60614.

773 325 8692
[email protected]
http://www.depaul.edu/insights/internationally-renowned.html
http://works.bepress.com/danielmcneil