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ETHICS EVENT: The Contemporary Ramifications of Slavery

Sharpe and Brand
September 19, 2017
3:30PM - 5:00PM
11th Floor, Thompson Library

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Add to Calendar 2017-09-19 15:30:00 2017-09-19 17:00:00 ETHICS EVENT: The Contemporary Ramifications of Slavery The Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies presents The Contemporary Ramifications of Slavery This event will feature Dionne Brand, English and Theatre Studies professor of the University of Guelph, and Christina Sharpe, English professor of Tufts University.  Professor Brand is a poet, a novelist, and an essayist. Her writings typically involve the topics of social justice, particularly on the issues of gender and race. She has written more than a dozen books, and her specialties are reflected in works such as the novel What We all Long For (2005) and her books of poetry, including thirsty and Inventory.  Professor Sharpe specializes in subjects such as black visual studies, black queer studies, black diaspora studies, and mid-nineteenth century African American Literature and cultre. She has authored several articles and essays on blackness, ethics, and the subject of Black Studies, as well as two books- Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post Slavery Subjects (2011) and In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (2016).  This event is hosted by the Arts & Humanities Discovery Themes, Human Rights in Transit, and the Transnational Black Citizenship Project, as well as the Thompson Library Diversity and Inclusion Committee. 11th Floor, Thompson Library Center for Ethics and Human Values cehv@osu.edu America/New_York public

The Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies presents

 

The Contemporary Ramifications of Slavery

 

This event will feature Dionne Brand, English and Theatre Studies professor of the University of Guelph, and Christina Sharpe, English professor of Tufts University. 
 
Professor Brand is a poet, a novelist, and an essayist. Her writings typically involve the topics of social justice, particularly on the issues of gender and race. She has written more than a dozen books, and her specialties are reflected in works such as the novel What We all Long For (2005) and her books of poetry, including thirsty and Inventory. 
 
Professor Sharpe specializes in subjects such as black visual studies, black queer studies, black diaspora studies, and mid-nineteenth century African American Literature and cultre. She has authored several articles and essays on blackness, ethics, and the subject of Black Studies, as well as two books- Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post Slavery Subjects (2011) and In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (2016).
 
 
This event is hosted by the Arts & Humanities Discovery Themes, Human Rights in Transit, and the Transnational Black Citizenship Project, as well as the Thompson Library Diversity and Inclusion Committee.