2002 Hays and Margaret Crimmel Colloquium

The coordinator of the sixth colloquium for the year 2002 is Peter Bailey, Professor of English. The colloquim takes place on September 17-18.

Tuesday, September 17, 8:00 p.m.: Lecture, Hepburn Hall 218

Manning Marable, Professor of History and Political Science at Columbia University is this year's colloquium lecturer. Professor Marable was founding director of Colgate University’s Africana and Hispanic Studies Program, chaired Ohio State’s Black Studies Program, and currently serves as founding Director of Columbia’s Institute for Research in African-American Studies. He has authored or edited more than twenty books, including How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America (1983), Black American Politics (1985), African and Caribbean Politics (1987), Race, Reform and Rebellion: the Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945-1990 (1991), Speaking Truth to Power:
Essays on Race, Radicalism and Resistance (1996), Black Leadership (1998), and Dispatches from the Ebony Tower: Intellectuals Confront the African American Experience (2000). In January, 1999, Professor Manning initiated Souls: A
Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, a quarterly journal examining key theoretical issues within Black America, Africa, and the Caribbean. Since 1976, he has written “Along the Color Line,” a syndicated political affairs series appearing in more than four hundred black-owned and black-oriented mass publications in the U.S., Canada, Britain, the Caribbean, and India.

A reception will follow Professor Marable's lecture.

Wednesday, September 18, noon: Luncheon, Dean Eaton Formal Lounge

Following the lunch, respondents will react to the lecture delivered by Professor Marable, and attendees will have the opportunity to raise questions of their own. Anyone interested in attending the luncheon session should contact Peter Bailey, pbailey@stlawu.edu, or x5179.