A conversation about personal and historical truths—how memories and experience embody and relay truth, and the role of fact vs. truth in writing history.
Natasha Trethewey (English/Northwestern) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former U.S. Poet Laureate. Carol Anderson is professor of African American Studies at Emory University and author of White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Nation’s Divide. Leslie M. Harris is Professor of History and African American Studies at Northwestern and author of a number of award-winning books on the history of U.S. slavery.
No tickets are required for this event, but seating is first-come, first-served.
Co-Presenters: Department of African American Studies; Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies; Department of History; Department of English and Creative Writing Program; and Kaplan Humanities Institute.
The 2017-18 TRUTH Dialogues are a year-long conversation about knowledge crises and politics from humanistic perspectives, co-presented by the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities in partnership with multiple Northwestern departments and programs.
Cost: Free; public welcome!