Hortense Spillers, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, will deliver the Provosts Distinguished Womens Lecture, titledThe Idea of Black Culture,at 5 p.m. Sept. 9 (Tuesday) in the auditorium of McKenna Hall at the University of 91³Ô¹Ï. The presentation is free and open to the public.
Spillerstalk will examine the complexities of the African Diaspora, which embody a rich synthesis of cultures from the site of the Americas.
The author ofBlack, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture,Spillers also has edited two volumes,Comparative American Identities: Race, Sex, and Nationality in the Modern TextandConjuring: Black Women, Fiction, and Literary Tradition.She earned her doctoral degree from Brandeis University.
A series of campus events on the lectures theme are planned in conjunction with the lecture, including an art exhibit,Afro-Latino/as and the Americasin McKenna Halls GalerÃa America through Oct. 15; an exhibit on the first floor concourse of the Hesburgh Library through Sept. 12 and continuing on the second floor Sept. 16 to Nov. 30; and a lecture and gallery walk titledBlacks, Art and the AmericasSept. 10 (Wednesday) at 4 p.m. in the Annenberg Auditorium of the Snite Museum of Art.
The Provost’s Distinguished Women’s Lecture Series encourages innovative forms of interaction between highly regarded women visitors and 91³Ô¹Ï faculty, students and administration. Spillersvisit and related events are also sponsored by the Department of English, Institute for Latino Studiesand the Institute for Scholarship and the Liberal Arts.
_ Contact: Cyraina Johnson-Roullier, associate professor of English,_ " Johnson.64@nd.edu ":mailto:Johnson.64@nd.edu _
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