First-Year Seminar Presents
Tonight: FYSEM Forum: Literacy, Race, and Memory in Douglass and Undocumented
Monday, February 10, 2020
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
4:45 pm – 6:30 pm EST/GMT-5
4:45 pm – 6:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Presented by Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Department of Classics, Princeton University
This talk will examine the relationship of literacy to the formation of the racial subject by reading a scene in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave against a chapter of Padilla Peralta’s own best-selling memoir, Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League.This event is cosponsored by the American Studies Program and the Council for Inclusive Excellence.
For more information, call 845-758-7514, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 4:45 pm – 6:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Location: Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater