Guest lecture, August 28: Sara Lennox: “Unser Professor, der Rassist.” White Scholars and Black German Studies.

August 28, 2015, 2:00 p.m., Odette Hall 323

Until her retirement in May 2012, SARA LENNOX was Professor of German Studies and Director of the Social Thought and Political Economy Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her books include Cemetery of the Murdered Daughters: Feminism, History, and Ingeborg Bachmann, Feminist Movements in a Globalizing World, and The Imperialist Imagination: German Colonialism and Its Legacy. She has published essays on twentieth-century literature, theory, feminism, postcolonialism, globalization, and transnationalism. From 2007-08 she was president of the German Studies Association. She was co-principal investigator for research grants on Black European Studies and Black German Studies and has recently completed an edited book entitled Remapping Black Germany: New Perspectives on Afro-German History, Politics, and Culture.

This lecture is co-sponsered by the Joint Initiative in German and European Studies.

If you have any accommodation needs, please e-mail german@chass.utoronto.ca five business days prior to the event, and we will do our best to assist you.