#DOBLACKLIVESMATTER?
From Michael Brown to CeCe McDonald:
On Black Death and LGBTQ Politics
Lecture Given by Cathy J. Cohen, 2014 Kessler Award Winner
Friday, December 12th
7.00-9.30PM
Elebash Recital Hall, First Floor
The Graduate Center, CUNY
This public lecture will explore how Blackness and the spectacle of black death figure into and configure LGBTQ politics today. What is the relationship between LGBTQ politics and a consolidating radical politics in black communities rooted in the res...
#DOBLACKLIVESMATTER?
From Michael Brown to CeCe McDonald:
On Black Death and LGBTQ Politics
Lecture Given by Cathy J. Cohen, 2014 Kessler Award Winner
Friday, December 12th
7.00-9.30PM
Elebash Recital Hall, First Floor
The Graduate Center, CUNY
This public lecture will explore how Blackness and the spectacle of black death figure into and configure LGBTQ politics today. What is the relationship between LGBTQ politics and a consolidating radical politics in black communities rooted in the response to death? Does silence (still) = death in LGBTQ politics? If so, whose death matters?
TESTIMONIAL SPEAKERS:
Katherine Acey
Vanessa Agard-Jones
Jafari Allen
KESSLER AWARD:
The prestigious Kessler Award is an annual lectureship given to a scholar who has produced a substantive body of work and has had a significant influence on the field of GLBTQ Studies. Foer more information, visit www.clags.org.
CATHY J. COHEN is the David and Mary Winton Green Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. She has also served as Deputy Provost for Graduate Education and the Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago. Cohen is the author of Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics (Oxford University Press) and The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics (University of Chicago Press, 1999). She is co-editor of Women Transforming Politics: An Alternative Reader (NYU Press, 1997) with Kathleen Jones and Joan Tronto. Her articles have been published in numerous journals and edited volumes including the American Political Science Review, NOMOS, GLQ, Social Text, and the DuBois Review.
Cohen is the recipient of numerous awards including the Robert Wood Johnson Investigator’s Award, the Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Research Fellowship, and two major research grants from the Ford Foundation for her work as principal investigator of the Black Youth Project and the Mobilization, Change and Political and Civic Engagement Project. She is currently a member of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Youth and Participatory Politics through New Media. Cohen serves on a number of national and local advisory boards and is the co-editor with Frederick Harris of a book series at Oxford University Press entitled “Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities.”
In addition to her academic work, Cohen has always been politically active. She was a founding board member and former co-chair of the board of the Audre Lorde Project in NY. She was also on the board of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press as well as the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) at CUNY. Cohen was a founding member of Black AIDS Mobilization (BAM!) and was one of the core organizers of two international conferences “Black Nations / Queer Nations?” and “Race, Sex, Power.” Cohen has also served as an active member in numerous organizations such as the Black Radical Congress, African American Women in Defense of Ourselves, and Ella’s Daughters. Currently, Cohen serves as a Board Member of the Arcus Foundation and a Governing Board member of the University of Chicago’s four charter schools. She is also the founder and director of the Black Youth Project:www.blackyouthproject.com.