Final Symposium: Anti-Racism and the Disciplines

Friday, March 31, 2023 
1–6 pm
Rogers Memorial Chapel
(Reception to follow)

As a formal close to the 2021-2022 Dean’s Speaker Series on Anti-Racism and the Disciplines, School of Liberal Arts Dean Brian Edwards has invited all previous participants to Tulane’s campus for an all-day symposium on March 31st, 2023.

In addition to the cast of participating scholars (names and institutions listed below), the symposium will feature a keynote by American literary critic, Black Feminist scholar, and Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor at Vanderbilt University, Hortense J. Spillers, who will speak on Anti-Racism and Literary Studies.

Symposium Participants: 

• Keynote on Literary Studies: Hortense Spillers
  Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor Emerita of English, Vanderbilt University
• Anthropology: Lee D. Baker
  Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, and African and African American Studies, Duke University
• Classical Studies: Dan-el Padilla Peralta
  Associate Professor of Classics, Princeton University
• Communication Studies: Sarah J. Jackson
  Presidential Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Media, Inequality and Change Center, University of Pennsylvania
• Economics: Gary Hoover
  Professor of Economics and Executive Director of the Murphy Institute, Tulane University 
• Philosophy: Lionel McPherson
  Associate Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University 
• Sociology: Mary Pattillo
  Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of African American Studies, Northwestern University

Tentative Schedule

• 1:00–2:15pm: Anti-Racism and the Humanities
• 2:30–3:45pm: Anti-Racism and the Social Sciences
• 4:00–6:00pm: Keynote on Literary Studies by Hortense J. Spillers

Listen now to the Anti-Racism and the Disciplines Podcast!

https://liberalarts.tulane.edu/antiracismandthedisciplinespodcast