Apr 16, 2026 4:00 pm
Bruce Nesbitt African American Cultural Center, 1212 W. Nevada, Urbana
- Sponsor
- Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity
- Contact
- Anita Kaiser
- arkaiser@illinois.edu
- Originating Calendar
- Campus Humanities Calendar
Join CSGGE for a lecture by Dr. Frieda Ekotto. Dr. Ekotto is an intellectual historian and philosopher with areas of expertise in 20th and 21st-century Anglophone and Francophone literature and in the cinema of West Africa and its diaspora, she concentrates on contemporary issues of law, race and LG BTQIA2S+ issues. This paper discusses the historical importance of remembering Aimé Césaire's work through Black Lives Matter in the US.