When:
Thursday, April 10, 2025
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM CT
Where: Kresge Hall, Trienens Forum (Kresge 1515), 1880 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Cost: Free
Contact:
Lauren Johnson
Group: English Department
Sponsor: Department of Black Studies, Department of Performance Studies, Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Program in American Studies, the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, and the Council for Race and Ethnic Studies.
Co-Sponsor:
Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Category: Lectures & Meetings, Academic
For the American Cultures Colloquium spring event, Professors Miriam Petty (Northwestern University), Francesca Royster (DePaul University), and Samantha Pinto (University of Texas at Austin) will join in conversation about the state of Black celebrity over the long durée of Black life in the U.S. Reading across texts, genres, and personas, these scholars will situate celebrity as an important form of cultural production while problematizing its role in the social and political fabric of contemporary and past American life.