Toni Morrison, Ethics, and Social Justice: A Robert M. Gay Memorial Symposium

  • Apr 15, 2021
  • 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
  • Virtual
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Toni Morrison’s writings uniquely speak to contemporary issues of ethics, adversity and change. Distinctly highlighting the lives of African Americans, they articulate new ways of understanding our racialized American history and delineate methods of ethically reimagining our relations to race and racism. Featuring lectures by three leading Toni Morrison scholars, this event embraces Morrison’s work as a model for inquiry and change in our historical moment of crisis around issues of social justice and racial ethics.

Keynotes by

  • Carolyn Denard: Founder and president of the Toni Morrison Society.
  • Jean Wyatt: Author of Love and Narrative Form in Toni Morrison’s Later Novels (2017) and recipient of the Toni Morrison Society’s “Best Book Award.”
  • Daphne Lamothe: Author of Inventing the New Negro: Narrative, Culture, and Ethnography (2009).

Moderated by Sheldon George: coeditor of Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers: Race, Ethics, Narrative Form (2020).

Presentations will be streamed via Zoom on Thursday, April 15th, 2021, from 5-7pm. Register by April 10th. This event is free to the public, but registration is required.

This Robert M. Gay Memorial Lectures event is hosted by the Simmons University Department of English, the Gwen Ifill College of Media, Arts, and Humanities, and the Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.

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Check out the Simmons Library Toni Morrison LibGuide in advance of the Symposium.

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