The Black Feminist Lecture Series

 

Drs. Vivian May and Beth Ferri, Series Organizers; Ms. Pat Nolan, Digital Archivist

 

"Eight visiting scholars who examine and discuss the foundations, concerns, and implications of black feminist theory and practice across the last two hundred years." Visit the site and see for yourself.

Go to http://www.eaze.net/~dene/bf2.html for a complete schedule of events. Before beginning your video journey of the scholars below, please check this URL - http://moo.twu.edu:7000/1870/ - for the latest information on viewing audio/video files on the internet. For a Powerpoint biography of each to the speakers, go to http://twu.edu/~nolan/moo/bfls/sld001.htm

 

Videos of Lectures:

February 24, 2000
Dr. Joyce E. King, Associate Provost and Professor of Education,
Medgar Evers College, CUNY:
"'Who Knoweth Whether Thou art Come to the Kingdom for Such a Time as This?'
Transformative Public Scholarship for Social Change."
http://205.165.53.172:8080/ramgen/moo/JEK01.rm
http://205.165.53.172:8080/ramgen/moo/JEK02.rm

 

March 2, 2000
Elizabeth West, Assistant Professor of English, Texas A & M University:
"Black Female Protagonists and the Abstruse Racialized Self in Antebellum African American Fiction."
http://205.165.53.172:8080/ramgen/moo/ewest.rm
http://205.165.53.172:8080/ramgen/moo/ewest2.rm

 

March 9, 2000
Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies, Spelman College:
"Global Black Feminisms"
http://205.165.53.116:8080/ramgen/sheftall.rm

 

March 23, 2000
Kristal Brent Zook, Freelance Journalist & Assistant Professor of Pan-African Studies, CSU-Northridge
"Wandering Journalist: The Role of Autobiography and Personal Reflection in Black Feminist Scholarship"
http://vid.twu.edu:8080/ramgen/d/moo/zook.rm

 

March 30, 2000
Cherry Muhanji, Creative Writer, Acting Director of Black Studies, & Assistant Professor of English, University of Missouri-Kansas City
"Soundtrack"
http://vid.twu.edu:8080/ramgen/d/moo/muhanji.rm

 

April 6, 2000
Rita Liberti, Assistant Professor of Kinesiology & Physical Education, CSU-Hayward:
"'Finer Womanhood' and the Place of Competitive Basketball for Women at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, 1900-1950."
http://vid.twu.edu:8080/ramgen/d/moo/liberti.rm

 

April 13, 2000
Aaronette White, Visiting Scholar in Residence, African American Gender Studies, Wilberforce University:
"Ain't I a Feminist? Black Men as Advocates of Feminism."
http://vid.twu.edu:8080/ramgen/d/moo/white.rm

 

April 20, 2000
Trudier Harris, J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of English, UNC-Chapel Hill:
"Strength, Morality, Tyranny: The Nature of African American Mothering"
No permission to videotape this lecture.

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