Guest Lecture Series: “Re-Thinking Malcolm X: A Conversation with Peniel Joseph and Michael Sawyer”
Co-sponsored by the UMD Department of African American Studies and the John B. Slaughter Endowment Lecture Series.
Virtual Event - Register at: https://umd.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GMED-fMbTC6uqeh3mqD77Q
Available to UMD registrants: A limited number of copies of Dr. Joseph's The Sword and the Shield are available. To request one copy, e-mail “tchico [at] umd.edu” with your UMD physical address.
Speaker Bios
Dr. Peniel Joseph
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Dr. Peniel Joseph is the Barbara Jordan Chair in Ethics and Political Values at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and professor of history and the founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a frequent national commentator on issues of Antiracism, Democracy and Civil Rights. He has written several previous books on African American history, including The Sword and The Shield and Stokely: A Life. The Sword and the Shield was named as one of Time Magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2020. He lives in Austin, Texas.
Dr. Michael Sawyer
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Dr. Michael Sawyer is Associate Professor of African-American Literature and Culture in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh. He has published two monographs, An Africana Philosophy of Temporality: Homo Liminalis and Black Minded: The Political Philosophy of Malcolm X. He is working on two new book length projects, The Door of Return: A Phenomenology of Blackness and Ramifications of Ramifications: The Art and Philosophy of Toni Morrison.
