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LTC/Mellon: Baldwin reading/discussion group for faculty/staff
From site: Learning and Teaching Center
Harry McKinley Williams, Bryn-Jones Distinguished Teaching Professor of History, will lead this spring faculty/staff discussion. Part of the Baldwin Symposium series of events.
Date: Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Time: 4:30 pm
Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Location: Headley House, 815 East Second St
Sponsored by: Perlman Learning/Teaching Ctr
Contact: jcoxjohn
Thursday, April 10
"[Re]reading James Baldwin on Racial Images"
Facilitator: Harry McKinley Williams, Bryn-Jones Distinguished Teaching Professor of History
Lawrie Balfour's book, The Evidence of Things Not Said: James Baldwin and the Promise of American Democracy, and selected Baldwin essays are the basis for this book discussion group.
4:30-6:00 pm, Headley House 815 East Second Streetrefreshments provided
Co-sponsors: Perlman LTC/Mellon Faculty Life Cycles grant and Bryn-Jones Distinguished Teaching Professorship in the Humanities
Books: Lawrie Balfour, The Evidence of Things Not Said: James Baldwin and the Promise of American Democracy (2001, Cornell University) and James Baldwin: Collected Essays by James Baldwin (1998, Literary Classics of the United States)
Books are provided to participants through funds from the Mellon Faculty Life Cycles grant. Join the group by contacting Jennifer Cox Johnson (jcoxjohn@carleton.edu or x 4192).