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Princeton Weekly Bulletin October 16, 2006, Vol. 96, No. 6 prev next current
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- • Project aims to ‘kindle debate’ on U.S. national security
- • Princeton will compete to retain management of plasma physics lab
- Inside
- • Nobel awarded to leaders of the COBE science team
- • Tangled fibers prove inspiring for Princeton chemists
- • Hit the classroom before the stadium
- Events
- • West to deliver inaugural Toni Morrison Lectures
- • Symposium explores intersection of neuroscience and religion
- • Festivities celebrate 250th anniversary of ‘Princeton in Princeton’
- • Black alumni come back to look forward
- Almanac
- • Calendar of events
- • Nassau Notes
- • By the numbers
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Nassau notes
West to deliver inaugural Toni Morrison Lectures
Cornel West (photo: Brian Velenchenko)
Princeton NJ — University scholar Cornel West will deliver the inaugural Toni Morrison Lectures, established in honor of the Nobel laureate and Princeton professor emerita, at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 20-21, in McCosh 50.
West, the Class of 1943 University Professor of Religion, will speak on “The Gifts of Black Folk in the Age of Terrorism.” West is one of the nation’s most widely known and quoted public intellectuals on the topics of American society, race, politics and class issues. His 1993 bestseller, “Race Matters,’’ was regarded as a groundbreaking examination of the impact of racism on America. His 2004 sequel, “Democracy Matters,” called for a revitalization of America’s democratic traditions in the post-Sept. 11 world.
The Morrison Lectures, sponsored jointly by the Center for African American Studies and Princeton University Press, are intended to be an annual event. Princeton University Press will publish the lectures in book form.
“The lecture series is intended to spotlight new and exciting work of scholars and writers who have risen to positions of prominence both in the academy and in the broader world of letters,” said Valerie Smith, director of the Center for African American Studies. “We and Professor Morrison feel that Cornel’s capacious intelligence, profound commitments and compelling oratorical power combine to make him the perfect person to launch the series.”
Smith noted that Eddie Glaude, an associate professor of religion, came up with the idea for the lecture series last year while he was serving as acting director of the then-Program in African American Studies. “My colleagues and I were wildly enthusiastic about the suggestion because it would allow us to create a dynamic and enduring tribute to Toni Morrison’s expansive literary imagination, intellectual adventurousness and political insightfulness,” Smith said.
Morrison, who joined the Princeton faculty in 1989, transferred to emerita status in July. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1993, becoming the first African-American winner and the first woman to win since 1938. She also won the National Humanities Medal, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Award. The New York Times Book Review this spring named Morrison’s “Beloved” the best work of American fiction published in the past quarter century.
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