This two-day event focuses on Saidiya V Hartman’s trilogy and the Black feminist tradition. Hartman is the author of Scenes of Subjection, Lose Your Mother, and Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments. Hartman is a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University in New York. You may attend in person, or register to receive the Zoom link.

November 11 Schedule

• 9:00 a.m.: Doors Open
• 9:30-10 a.m.: Opening remarks/welcome from Minkah Makalani and Jessica Marie Johnson
• 10 – 11:30 a.m.: The Trilogy: Reflections, with Marisa J. Fuentes (Rutgers), Jessica Marie Johnson (JHU), Derrais Carter (Arizona), and Asma Naeem (Baltimore Museum of Art)

There will be a second session in the evening.

This is part of the 2022-23 Speaker Series on Studies in Black Life and Thought. The series is a collaboration between the Center for Africana Studies and the Diaspora Solidarities Lab. It is co-sponsored with the JHU European Seminar and the JHU Black World Seminar.