January

Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Observance
"There Goes the Neighborhhod: Race, Ethnic and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods"
William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University and Director of the Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government
Date: Friday, January 25, 2008
Time: 4:00 pm
Place: Cannon Chapel

Reception, Book sale and signing to follow

Sponsored by Campus Life, Sociology and the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

February

Nikki Giovanni, Poet
Date: Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Time:7:00 pm
Place:Tull Auditorium, Law School

Nathan McCall, Lecturer
Date: Thursday, February 28, 2008
Time: 11:30 am
Place: Winship Ballroom

Book Reading/Signing

Carol Anderson, Associate Professor of History, University of Missouri-Colombia
"Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941-1960,"
Date: Friday, February 15, 2008
Time: 3:00 pm
Place: White Hall 110

Manning Marable, Professor of International and Public Affairs, History and Political Science, Cloumbia University, Founding Director, Institute for Research in African American Studies; Founding Director, Center for Contemporary Black History
"Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention"
Date: Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Time: 5:00 pm
Place: White Hall 102

Peniel Joseph, Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Brandeis University
Title: TBA
Date: Thursday, February 28, 2008
Time: 6:00 pm
Place: White Hall 103

Sponsored by Transforming Community Project, Multicultural Programs and Services

March

Lunch time Talk
Jerome Branche, Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Pittsburgh
"Malangaje and the Poetics of Diaspora: Jesus Cos Causse between the National and Outernational"
Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Time: 12 noon -1:30 pm
Place: 207 Candler Library

Co-Sponsord by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, ILA, English, Program of Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Please bring your lunch, light refreshments will be served.

April

Grace Towns Hamilton Lecture
Cynthia Tucker, Editorial page editor fo the AJC, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist
"The Politics of Inclusion"
Date: Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Time: 4:30 pm
Place: Winship Ballroom, Dobbs University Center

Co-Sponsored by the James Weldon Johnson Institute
Reception to follow