Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity - A Celebration of the Legacy and Life of Lindon Barrett (1961-2008)
Department: African American Studies
Date and Time: April 23, 2014 | 1:00 PM-5:00 PMEvent Location: Humanities Gateway 1030
Event Details
Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity (University of Illinois Press, 2014) is a brilliant and path-breaking re-examination of the relationship between the black experience and Western modernity. Written by Lindon Barrett, who was tragically murdered in 2008, the conference aims to outline the making of this posthumously published volume, critically assess its contribution while locating it within the wider context of Barrett’s life and legacy. With the exception of the last year of his life, Lindon Barrett spent his entire academic career serving the University of California, Irvine campus. Recruited in 1990 as an Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Barrett rose to become a full professor and distinguished himself as a founding member of the Program in African American Studies, which he served as Director from 2004 to 2007. He joined the University of California, Riverside in 2007. Barrett also authored Blackness and Value: Seeing Double (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and numerous scholarly essays and book chapters, including in the flagship journal Callaloo, which he served as Associate Editor from 1997 to 2000.
Speakers include:
Dean Georges Van Den Abbeele, School of Humanities, UC Irvine
Winston James, UC Irvine
Justin Joyce, Northwestern University
Katherine Kinney, UC Riverside
Fred Moten, UC Riverside
Janet Neary, Hunter College, CUNY
Vorris Nunley, UC Riverside
Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan, UC Irvine
John Carlos Rowe, University of Southern California
Traise Yamamoto, UC Riverside
*A leading literary critic and cultural theorist, Professor Lindon Barrett enriched the School of Humanities as a member of the Critical Theory Institute, the Director of the Program in African American Studies, and a faculty member in the Departments of Comparative Literature and English. The Lindon Barrett Memorial Award was created in his honor as a scholarship for outstanding undergraduates majoring in African American Studies. To contribute to the Lindon Barrett Memorial Award, visit https://ua-web.uadv.uci.edu/eGiving/. The Award is listed under the School of Humanities.
Co-sponsored by African American Studies and the Humanities Collective.
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