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MEDIA CONTACT: Sharon Dickman 585.275.4128
October 20, 2004
EVENT: Lecture on James Baldwin and the Black Aesthetics Movement by Darrell Moore of DePaul University
TIME, DATE, AND PLACE: 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 4, in the Welles-Brown Room of Rush Rhees Library on the University of Rochester’s River Campus
ADMISSION: Free and open to the public.
Darrell Moore, associate professor of philosophy at DePaul University in Chicago, will discuss writer James Baldwin and the Black Aesthetics Movement at 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 4, in the Welles-Brown Room of Rush Rhees Library on the University of Rochester’s River Campus.
Moore, who was a fellow at the Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies at the University of Rochester in 1998-99, earned his doctorate at Northwestern University. His teaching and research are centered in the areas of aesthetics, political philosophy, and critical race theory. Moore’s work has examined the ways in which the ideas of race are developed in philosophy and political theory.
At present, he is finishing a manuscript titled Aesthetics and Agency: On Beauty, Race, and the Practices of Freedom. The Black Aesthetics Movement, also known as the Black Arts Movement, was a period of artistic and literary development among African Americans in the 1960s and into the 1970s.
The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the Frederick Douglass Institute at (585) 275-7235.
About the University of Rochester
The University of Rochester (www.rochester.edu) is one of the nation's leading private universities. Located in Rochester, N.Y., the University gives students exceptional opportunities for interdisciplinary study and close collaboration with faculty through its unique cluster-based curriculum. Its College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering is complemented by the Eastman School of Music, Simon School of Business, Warner School of Education, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Schools of Medicine and Nursing, and the Memorial Art Gallery.
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