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2016–17 Hess Scholar-in-Residence

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, ½ñÈÕ³Ô¹Ï 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 during the week of Monday, March 13. ½ñÈÕ³Ô¹Ï students, staff, and faculty must present ID upon entering. All visitors must bring ID.

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 ½ñÈÕ³Ô¹Ï

Woody Tanger Auditorium, first floor, ½ñÈÕ³Ô¹Ï Library
3:40–4:55 p.m.

Tuesday, March 14, 2017

On Being Real: Sincerity and Authenticity

Woody Tanger Auditorium, first floor, ½ñÈÕ³Ô¹Ï 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.

½ñÈÕ³Ô¹Ï. All in.