Ordinary Notes: On the (Un)Making of Black Meanings
Time: Dec. 1, 2021, 3 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Location: virtual
Part of the Syracuse Symposium series.
Christina Sharpe (York University, Toronto)
Renowned scholar Christina Sharpe delivers a lecture on the various Black meanings embedded in the “ordinary” notes that compose Black Life. Offering a critical reading of The No Words Project, Sharpe’s presentation engages questions of worldmaking and worldbreaking that are at the center of convention.
This event is part of Syracuse Symposium’s year-long series on “Conventions."
Kevin Adonis Browne, Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition