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MEDIA CONTACT: Valerie Alhart valerie.alhart@rochester.edu
585.276.3256
April 8, 2014
TIME, DATE, PLACE: 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Friday, April 11, in the Hawkins-Carlson Room of Rush Rhees Library on the University of Rochester's River Campus. A full conference schedule can be found at https://www.rochester.edu/college/humanities/.
WHAT: The University of Rochester's Humanities Project presents a symposium in which 16 distinguished scholars will discuss what it means to be black in the 21st century. The conference focuses on "post-blackness" a term originally used to describe artists in the 1990s who were adamant about not being labeled "black" artists and used their craft to redefine the way their work was viewed by society.
Essays delivered and discussed at the symposium will be published by Columbia University Press in 2015.
ABOUT THE HUMANITIES PROJECT: Created in 2006 by University of Rochester President Joel Seligman, the Humanities Project supports collaborations by Rochester faculty in philosophy, the arts, languages, and other fields. Individual projects involve faculty members from at least two different departments, and often with institutions in the greater Rochester community, and scholars from around the world.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Email Tiffany Barber at tbarber4@ur.rochester.edu.
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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