“Aimé Césaire in the Era of Black Lives Matter” by Frieda Ekotto
Apr 16, 2026 4:00 pm
Bruce Nesbitt African American Cultural Center; 1212 W. Nevada Street, Urbana IL
- Sponsor
- Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity with co-sponsors: Center for Advanced Study; Center for African Studies; Center for Global Studies; Department of African American Studies; Department of Gender & Women's Studies; African Student Association; Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory; and the Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center
- Speaker
- Dr. Frieda Ekotto
- Registration
- Registration
- Contact
- Anita Kaiser
- csggeatillinois@illinois.edu
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- Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity
Join the Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity for a lecture by Dr. Frieda Ekotto as part of our Series on Gendered Displacement and Erasure. Frieda 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.