Colloquium on Lynching Violence and Representation Film Screening of My Nephew Emmett & A Discussion
Department: African American Studies
Date and Time: February 22, 2019 | 11:00 AM-1:00 PMEvent Location: HIB 135
Event Details
Discussion by:
LaShonda Carter, Ph.D. Candidate, Culture and Theory Program
Bridget Cooks, Associate Professor, Department of African American Studies & Department of Art History
Erin Gray, Dean’s Fellow/Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communications, New York University
Linette Park, Ph.D. Candidate, Culture and Theory Program
To most, common understandings of lynching violence is perhaps a phenomena of the past and that only has
its historical and socio-political ties to the long 19th century of racial slavery and segregation in the United
States. However, as recent political and social demonstrations protesting the gratuity of antiblack
police violence and abuses, lynching violence and its longue durée are ever present, and thus require a more critical examination of its formations. This necessary critical reorientation of lynching violence has also been made clear its burgeoning and diverse scholarship that examines lynching violence through different vantages: legal humanities, gender and sexuality, visual and media studies, and political economy to name a few. The colloquium takes cue from this multi- and interdisciplinary approach by including a screening of the recent film, My Nephew Emmett, followed by a panel that includes graduate students and scholars that examine lynching violence and representation from their respective disciplines and research. Light refreshments will be served.
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