Kemp Malone Lecture and Seminar Series

The Kemp Malone Lecture Series officially begins TOMORROW, March 21st! Below is a final reminder of our wonderful lineup. Please be sure to join us!

Event: Works-in-Progress Seminar
Date: Thursday, March 21
Time: 10:00am-12:00pm
Location: Kemp Malone Library, Callaway N301
Breakfast will be provided

Event: Keynote Lecture: "Poetry, (Un)Translatability, and World Literature"
Date: Thursday, March 21
Time: 5:30pm-7:00pm
Location: White Hall 110
Dinner Reception: 7:00pm, Kemp Malone Library, Callaway N301

Event: Professionalization Seminar (on journal publications!)
Date: Friday, March 22
Time: 10:00am-11:30am
Location: Kemp Malone Library, Callaway N301
Breakfast will be provided

Mark your calendars for the 2019 Kemp Malone Lecture series with Dr. Jahan Ramazani from March 21-22! Poster design by the wonderful Tyler Tennant!

In preparation, we will also be hosting our Reading Group next week on Tuesday, March 5th 4pm-7pm Callaway C201!

http://mlkscholars.mit.edu/kimberly-brown/

Kimberly Brown, Women’s & Gender Studies and Literature – Martin Luther King Jr. Scholars

Come see the brilliant Dr. Kimberly Juanita Brown NEXT WEEK! (April 5th and April 6th 2018)

Sight and Site: Bounded Geographies in Contemporary Representations of Slavery Please join us for Kimberly Brown's talk concerning contemporary representations of slavery.

April 5th and 6th!

Kemp Malone 2018 Announcement:
We are absolutely thrilled to announce our 2018 Kemp Malone speaker: Dr. Kimberly Juanita Brown. Between this year’s wonderful nominees, Dr. Brown received an overwhelming majority of first choice votes. As the founder and convener of the internationally known working group The Dark Room: Race and Visual Culture Studies Seminar, Dr. Brown has been called "the nation's leading scholar on African American and visual culture." Yet while her work is firmly situated in visual studies, she does so from a literature background and a position in Mount Holyoke's English department. Dr. Brown’s interdisciplinary scholarship, extensive archival background, her willingness to engage students, and her incisive insight promise a phenomenal 2018 Kemp Malone. You can read more about Dr. Brown’s work here: http://mlkscholars.mit.edu/kimberly-brown/

This year’s Kemp Malone events will take place on Thursday, April 5th and Friday, April 6th. Times and locations for the events are still forthcoming along with dates and times for a spring reading group.

If you require a disability-related accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Clifford Clark at [email protected] to arrange services.

On Behalf of the Kemp Malone Committee
Stephanie Larson
Tesla Cariani
Joe Fritsch
Sarah Harsh

Kimberly Brown, Women’s & Gender Studies and Literature – Martin Luther King Jr. Scholars [I]f you study slavery, you study everything; you study labor, production, reproduction, gender, race, everything is located there. So I think what institutions…can do is to have very different disciplinary frameworks [of study] to look at the same archive [of slavery and its history]. What we find…

Tomorrow!

http://time.com/4306316/beyonce-lemonade-black-woman-magic/

"Beyoncé’s expression of the goddess-like wrath of a black woman betrayed is not about her—Lemonade is art, not autobiography, and continues the protest tradition of women blues artists. In black women’s music, trifling men have long been metonyms for a patriarchy that never affords black women the love and life they deserve"

Beyoncé’s Lemonade Is Black Woman Magic And it is a black feminist political act

Please join us for this year's Kemp Malone events, with the wonderful Heather Love! Tomorrow and Friday.

Work-in-progress seminar: “Small Change”
Please RSVP here to receive the piece we’ll be discussing: http://goo.gl/forms/EBVG9S4F0i
Lunch provided
Thursday, April 7
11:30am-1:00pm, Kemp Malone Library (Callaway N301)

Public lecture: “A Q***r Method?”
No RSVP needed.
Reception to follow
Thursday, April 7
4:30pm-6:30pm, White Hall 205

Professionalization seminar: “Working Across Disciplines”
No RSVP needed.
Breakfast provided
Friday, April 8
9:00am-10:30am, Kemp Malone Library (Callaway N301)

A recent interview with this year's Kemp Malone Lecturer (who will be with us very shortly)

Q&A with Heather Love The field of Q***r studies has its roots in defiance and rebellion.

Check out the poster for this year's Kemp Malone Lecture Series!