- Sponsor
- Center for Writing Studies
- Speaker
- Dr. Bobby J. Smith II
- Originating Calendar
- Campus Humanities Calendar
The Center for Writing Studies will be hosting Dr. Bobby J. Smith II for a brownbag talk! Dr. Smith will be giving a lecture titled "Writing the Forgotten Black Past: Brief Notes on Recovery." Please join us on Thursday, March 12!
In this talk, Dr. Smith will reflect on his interactive approach to research and writing in African American Studies: the resurrection of important but missing Black figures and organizations in history and the process of writing them back into it. Specifically, Dr. Smith examines two pieces of his writing—one public, the other scholarly—to briefly walk us through his approach, inviting us to engage in a dialogue about what it means to write in the hidden crevices of the archive of Black life and how to translate what is recovered and produced to broader public and scholarly communities.