09/27/2017
Kemp Malone 2018 Announcement:
We are absolutely thrilled to announce our 2018 Kemp Malone speaker: Dr. Kimberly Juanita Brown. Between this year’s wonderful nominees, Dr. Brown received an overwhelming majority of first choice votes. As the founder and convener of the internationally known working group The Dark Room: Race and Visual Culture Studies Seminar, Dr. Brown has been called "the nation's leading scholar on African American and visual culture." Yet while her work is firmly situated in visual studies, she does so from a literature background and a position in Mount Holyoke's English department. Dr. Brown’s interdisciplinary scholarship, extensive archival background, her willingness to engage students, and her incisive insight promise a phenomenal 2018 Kemp Malone. You can read more about Dr. Brown’s work here: http://mlkscholars.mit.edu/kimberly-brown/
This year’s Kemp Malone events will take place on Thursday, April 5th and Friday, April 6th. Times and locations for the events are still forthcoming along with dates and times for a spring reading group.
If you require a disability-related accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Clifford Clark at [email protected] to arrange services.
On Behalf of the Kemp Malone Committee
Stephanie Larson
Tesla Cariani
Joe Fritsch
Sarah Harsh
[I]f you study slavery, you study everything; you study labor, production, reproduction, gender, race, everything is located there. So I think what institutions…can do is to have very different disciplinary frameworks [of study] to look at the same archive [of slavery and its history]. What we find…
