March 24 – Black Studies Program Presents Keynote Speaker - Dr. Vanessa K. Valdés: “Translation and the Future of Black Studies”

Black Studies Program

presents

Dr. Vanessa K. Valdés

“Translation and the Future of Black Studies”

Please join us Tuesday, March 24 at 6:30 for the Black Studies Program’s annual lecture series. Dr. Vanessa K. Valdés will deliver this year’s keynote, titled, “Translation and the Future of Black Studies” hosted by Black Studies. The evening will also feature the music of master drummer, Emmanual Poku, accompanied by Fairfield University's Brian Torff, Professor of Music. 

Dr. Vanessa K. Valdés is the author and editor of eight books, including Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (2017). She is the series editor of Afro-Latinx Futures at SUNY Press and the co-series editor of Global Black Writers in Translation at Vanderbilt University Press. She currently serves as Editor of CENTRO Press, the book-making arm of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College.

About the Talk:

Charles Lam and Richard Philcox; Betsy Wing; and Myra Bergman Ramos: without these translators, generations of students in the anglophone world would not know of Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks; Edouard Glissant's Poetics of Relation or Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed. In this talk, Dr. Vanessa K. Valdés presents a brief overview of the history of translation within Black Studies as a field before presenting the greater historical imperative for continued understandings to be gleaned from multilingual Africa and its diasporas.

No registration is necessary. This event is free and open to the public and is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute, Music Program, American Studies, English Department, and Latinx, Latin American, and Caribbean Studies.

Lite fare and refreshments will be served.