2016–17 Hess Scholar in Residence John L. Jackson, Jr.
The Office of the President, in cooperation with the Robert L. Hess Scholar-in-Residence Planning Committee, presents the Robert L. Hess Memorial Lecture:
Love, Race, and Invisibility in a World of "Us" and "Them"
John L. Jackson, Jr.
Hess Scholar-in-Residence
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
5:30–6:30 p.m.
Woody Tanger Auditorium, Brooklyn College Library
John L. Jackson, Jr. is Richard Perry University Professor and Dean of the School of Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. A cultural anthropologist by training, he holds professorships in the Departments of Anthropology, Africana Studies, and the Annenberg School for Communication.
Jackson is the author of five books: Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America (University of Chicago, 2003); Real Black: Adventures in Racial Sincerity (University of Chicago, 2005); Racial Paranoia: The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness (Basic Civitas Books, 2008); Thin Description: Ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem (Harvard University Press, 2013); and Impolite Conversations: On Race, Politics, Sex, Money, and Religion (Atria Books, 2014), co-authored with Cora Daniels.
Additional presentations with the Hess Scholar-in-Residence will take place week of Monday, March 13, through Thursday, March 16. Brooklyn College students, staff, and faculty must present ID upon entering. All visitors must bring ID and may RSVP.
Monday, March 13, 2017
Violence & Memory in Ethnographic Film
Library Viewing Room 242, second floor
11 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
Real Boroughs: From Harlem to Brooklyn
Woody Tanger Auditorium, first floor, Brooklyn College Library
3:40–4:55 p.m.
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
On Being Real: Sincerity and Authenticity
Woody Tanger Auditorium, first floor, Brooklyn College Library
11 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
Creating Anthroman
State Lounge, fifth floor, Student Center
3:40–4:55 p.m.
Israel in Africa: Black Jews in an African Context
State Lounge, fifth floor, Student Center
6:30–8 p.m.
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Harlem: From Giuliani and Bloomberg to de Blasio
Gold Room, sixth floor, Student Center
11 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
Race, Class, and Gender: Intersectionality in Urban America
Occidental Lounge, fifth floor, Student Center
2:15–3:30 p.m.
Political Correctness in the Classroom?
Occidental Lounge, fifth floor, Student Center
5–7 p.m.
