Toni Morrison Lectures
West to deliver inaugural lectures, Oct. 20-21, 2006
The annual Toni Morrison Lecture series will be launched Friday and Saturday, Oct, 20-21, 2006 with two inaugural lectures presented by Cornel West, the Class of 1943 University Professor of Religion.
His talks, titled “The Gifts of Black Folk in the Age of Terrorism,” will take place both evenings from 7:30-9 p.m. in McCosh 50.
This new series will be held annually and spotlight the new and exciting work of scholars and writers who have risen to positions of prominence both in academe and in the broader world of letters. It is sponsored jointly by the Center for African American Studies and Princeton University Press.
The lectures will be published in book form by Princeton University Press and celebrate the expansive literary imagination, intellectual adventurousness and political insightfulness that characterize the writing of Toni Morrison.