Existing Between Maniacs and Comrades: The Role of Black Literature in the Fight for Black Lives

Fulbright Canada 30th Anniversary Speaker Series

Existing Between Maniacs and Comrades: 
The Role of Black Literature in the Fight for Black Lives

Dr. Kalenda Eaton, Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma

Please register online: fulbrightcanada.zoom.us/webinar

We are pleased to present our upcoming speaker series event set to take place on November 9, 2020, at 3:30 p.m. (EST). The featured speaker is Dr. Kalenda Eaton, an Associate Professor in the Clara Luper Department of African & African American Studies at the University of Oklahoma. She is also an alumna of Fulbright Canada, who took up the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Society and Culture award at Dalhousie University in 2016.

Her research and teaching areas include 20th and 21st century Black Literatures; the Black American West; Women’s Studies; African American Cultural History; and Digital Humanities. She is a University of Oklahoma Libraries Digital Scholarship Fellow, and her recent publications can be found in American Studies Journal, Teaching Western American Literature, and Africa Today.

In this edition of the Speaker Series, Dr. Eaton will discuss the historical role of Black literature in addressing and challenging social and political injustice. Emphasis will be placed on how selected creative writers use artistic agency to simultaneously highlight the beauty of black lived experience and interrogate anti-black sentiment.

A Q&A session will follow.

Fulbright Canada wants to thank Dr. Kalenda Eaton for taking the time to share her knowledge.

We encourage you to share this public event with members of your network, either directly or via social media. Further, if you have any questions about the event, please contact Anna Abraham, Public Affairs Specialist and Diversity Lead, at (613) 688-5516 or aabraham@fulbright.ca.

Fulbright Canada is pleased to be presenting a speaker series focused on the post-COVID world.  In bringing Fulbright Canada subject-matter experts to our broader community, our goal is to create opportunities for thoughtful discussion on a range of critical issues such as supporting social cohesion and inclusion, enhancing public health and wellbeing, and contributing to digital transformation and economic recovery. Stay tuned for upcoming events!