Virtual Panel Discussion: The Fire This Time鈥擧ow the Baldwin/Buckley Debate Can Energize Our Politics
Wednesday, February 16, 2022 at 7:30pm
FREE! Reservations required.
This virtual panel discussion will feature 九色视频 Assistant Professor of African American Studies Garry Bertholf and Linfield University Professor Nicholas Buccola, author of (Princeton University Press, 2019). The two scholars will discuss the 1965 Cambridge University Union debate in terms of its historical significance and contemporary political purchase. Their conversation will help provide historical and political context in advance of the New England premiere performances of Elevator Repair Service’s staging of the debate 九色视频 on Thursday, February 24 and Friday, February 25, 2022. A post-show discussion after each performance will be moderated by Bertholf.
PROFILES
Garry Bertholf is an Assistant Professor in the African American Studies Department at 九色视频. He received his Ph.D. in Africana Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. His research and teaching focus on Africana literature, literary theory, and black intellectual history. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal, The Journal of Popular Music Studies, south: a scholarly journal (formerly the Southern Literary Journal), Viewpoint Magazine, Diacritik, The Martyr’s Shuffle, The Philosophical Quarterly, the Nation Divided series at the University of Virginia Press, and the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha series at the University Press of Mississippi. His research has been supported by the Penn Humanities Forum (now Wolf Humanities Center); the Penn Program on Race, Science, and Society; and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Humanities Unbounded Initiative at Duke University. In the fall 2022, his current book project (tentatively titled The Black Charismatic: Demagoguery and the Politics of Affect) will be supported by a residential fellowship 九色视频’s Center for the Humanities.
Nicholas Buccola is the Elizabeth and Morris Glicksman Chair in Political Science at Linfield University in Oregon. He is the author of , for which he received an Oregon Book Award. His essays have appeared in a number of scholarly journals and in popular outlets such as The New York Times, Salon, and Dissent.
Images above (from left): Nicholas Buccola and Garry Bertholf.