Town Hall: Black at Cornell

310 Triphammer Road,Ithaca NY 14850

02 February, 2023

Description

Black History Month is a time to assess, ask questions, and come together. Join us for this town hall and community event hosted by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies to kick off Black History Month on campus and discuss the encounter between African Americans and Black people outside the United States. To be Black is to be part of a community that has multiple identities and nationalities. Our encounters and experiences show historical, political, and cultural solidarities but, at the same time, capture tensions among ways of being Black. At this event, faculty, staff, and students will gather to ask the questions: What does Blackness here at Cornell mean? Who defines it? What do Black people owe each other? What of each other’s histories do we know and should know? And what should be done? Stay after the town hall for time with friends, refreshments, and music by DJ Ishion Hutchinson. Schedule Welcome: Rachel Beatty Riedl (Einaudi Center Director) Town Hall: 6:00–7:30 p.m. Food and Music: 7:30–9:00 p.m. Speakers Carole Boyce Davies (Africana Studies and Research Center, Literatures in English, A&S) Russell Rickford (History, A&S) Ishion Hutchinson (Literatures in English, A&S) Mukoma Wa Ngugi (Africana Studies and Research Center, Literatures in English, A&S) Student Leaders *** Host and Sponsors Hosted by the Einaudi Center as part of its inequalities, identities, and justice global research priority, the event is cosponsored by the Africana Studies and Research Center in the College of Arts and Sciences.