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A Candid Conversation With Dr. Cornel West
Sunday, March 6, 2022 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Join us as we honor A Year of Black History with a candid conversation with the American philosopher, political activist, grammy-award winner, artist, actor, author and intellectual. Moderated by Dr. Todd Shaw, UofSC African-American Studies Program.
Dr. Cornel West is the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair at Union Theological Seminary. He teaches on the works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, as well as courses in Philosophy of Religion, African American Critical Thought, and a wide range of subjects -- including but by no means limited to, the classics, philosophy, politics, cultural theory, literature, and music.
Dr. West is the former Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. The Grammy-Award winning professor graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in three years and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at Princeton.
Dr. West has written 20 books and has edited 13. He is best known for his classics, Race Matters and Democracy Matters, and for his memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. His most recent book, Black Prophetic Fire, offers an unflinching look at nineteenth and twentieth-century African American leaders and their visionary legacies.
Dr. West has a passion to communicate to a vast variety of publics in order to keep alive the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. – a legacy of telling the truth and bearing witness to love and justice.
Meet Dr. West: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5yc80A09gw
Moderator:
Dr. Todd Shaw has been on faculty since 2003 and has appointments both in UofSC's Department of Political Science and the African American Studies Program. He was appointed the College of Arts & Science Distinguished Associate Professor of Political Science and African American Studies in 2012. He served as the Interim Chair and then Chair of the Department of Political Science from 2017 to 2019.
For the year of 2021, he served as the Interim Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Social Sciences in the College of Arts & Sciences. He researches and teaches broadly in the areas of African American politics, urban politics and public policy, as well as citizen activism and social movements. He has published three books and multiple articles in scholarly venues. With his collaborators of Dr. Kirk Foster of Eastern Carolina University and Dr. Barbara Combs of Clark Atlanta University, he currently is working on a fourth book project tentatively entitled, Black Places of Empowerment: The 21st Century Communities of Black Politics.
Dr. Shaw is a past president of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists and has been involved in numerous other professional and civic groups.
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This program is in partnership with the South Carolina Humanities Council. UofSC African-American Studies Program and UofSC Institute for African-American Research.
Richland Library received a Growth Grant from South Carolina Humanities, www.schumanities.org. Funding for the Growth Grants has been provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and the NEH Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan (SHARP) initiative.
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This program is in partnership with the South Carolina Humanities Council. UofSC African-American Studies Program and UofSC Institute for African-American Research.
Richland Library received a Growth Grant from South Carolina Humanities, www.schumanities.org. Funding for the Growth Grants has been provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and the NEH Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan (SHARP) initiative.