Tomorrow Night! “Early Black Futures” Lecture with Dr. Brigitte Fielder
Early Black Futures: Old Technology, Hopeful Speculation, and Childhood Dreams
Brigitte Fielder, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Thursday, March 24 at 5 pm ET
Open to the BU Community & Live Streamed to the General Public
In-person Location: Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground, FLR 104. Registration required; register here.
Both Black literary and emancipation efforts contributed to a project of imagining and producing early Black futures. This talk treats the intertwining of the literary and the technological, exploring Black literature that takes up forms of “old” technology and speculation to consider Black children – as readers and thinkers in the Black future that Black speculation would produce.
Co-sponsors: English Department, African American Studies Program, and American and New England Studies Program