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.