The public is invited to attend Carleton College’s Winter 2015 Herbert P. Lefler Lecture on Monday, Feb. 23 at 4:30 p.m. in Leighton Hall Room 305. This year’s lecture, entitled “New York is like Johannesburg: The Global Dimensions of the African American Freedom Movement,” will be presented by Kevin Gaines, a professor of history at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Gaines is The Robert Hayden Collegiate Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Michigan. He is author of American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates in the Civil Rights Era (2006), and Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics and Culture During the Twentieth Century (1996), the winner of the John Hope Franklin Book Prize of the American Studies Association, 1997. His fields of study includes U.S. and African American intellectual and cultural history; race and gender politics in post-World War II America; African American cultural production; the global dimensions of U.S; and the struggles over the meaning of citizenship.
This event is sponsored by the Carleton College Department of History, with support from the Herbert P. Lefler Lectureship, a series of endowed lectures in history, with the aim of bringing to Carleton historians who have raised significant questions relevant to history as a whole. Lefler lecturers give public presentations on their latest research, and conduct a seminar session with history majors regarding the major conceptual issues. Lecturers also meet with students enrolled in the junior year history colloquium, a class designed to examine the fundamental questions on the nature and importance of the discipline of history.
For more information, including disability accommodations, call (507) 222-5241. Leighton Hall is located at the end of College Street on the Carleton campus, and is also accessible via Highway 19 in Northfield.