Centennial Lecture: Dr. Saidiya V. Hartman to Explore Critical Fabulation & The Tense of History

As part of our yearlong Centennial celebration, join Xavier University on Tuesday, March 18, for Critical Fabulation & The Tense of History, a lecture by Dr. Saidiya V. Hartman, a Professor at Columbia University. The event will take place on campus in the Qatar Auditorium (Room 112) at 6 p.m.

Saidiya Hartman is the author of Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (Oxford, 1997); Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007) and Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments (Norton, 2019), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, and the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, the Mary Nickliss Prize from the Organization of American Historians, the Judy Grahn Prize for Lesbian Nonfiction, and the John Hope Franklin Prize from the American Studies Association. She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2019.

Preparation for the lecture would include becoming familiar with the article "Venus in Two Acts" and Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval, W. W. Norton & Company, 2019.