Black Life as Social Death: Seminar with Frank Wilderson, III, at UNC
Department: African American Studies
Date and Time: October 21, 2015 | 2:00 PM-3:30 PMEvent Location: Campus Y Anne Queen Lounge, UNC-Chapel Hill
Event Details
BLACK LIFE AS SOCIAL DEATH: Seminar with Frank Wilderson, III
Wednesday, October 21st
2:00-3:30PM – Campus Y Anne Queen Lounge, UNC-Chapel Hill
Join us for a seminar on afropessimism with Dr. Frank B. Wilderson, III. We will discuss two unpublished articles by Dr. Wilderson, one of them analysing Steve McQueen’s “12 Years a Slave” (2013), a film adaptation of Solomon Northup’s 1853 slave narrative.
To RSVP and request copies of the articles, email wrightw@live.unc.edu or abledsoe@email.unc.edu with subject “Wilderson Seminar“. We ask that you read the texts prior to the seminar.