At this week's Research Seminar, Celeste-Marie Bernier from the University of Nottingham, author of the forthcoming Twentieth Century African American Visual Arts (Edinburgh University Press, 2008), will be presenting a paper entitled: "‘Struggle is a Beautiful thing’: Narrative Experimentation and Visual Abstraction in Jacob Lawrence’s Migration of the Negro (1941) and Elizabeth Catlett’s The Negro Woman (1946-47)."
Following last week's public lecture, AMS's Malcolm Mclaughlin, author of Power, Community and Racial Killing in East St. Louis, will be speaking at this week's research seminar. He'll be talking about "The Pied Piper of the Ghetto: Lyndon B. Johnson, Environmental Justice and the Rat Extermination Bill of 1967."
This week's research seminar will be held on Wednesday at 4pm in A2.15. It's going to take a different format than normal research seminars: a research roundtable, it will feature PhD and MA students discussing their research with each other and with faculty. All are welcome.
This semester's research seminar series begins on October 10 (4pm, 2.03): Graham Thompson, author of American Culture in the 1980s, will be speaking about "American Products and Cultural Forms in the Long 1980s." All are welcome.