An Evening with Transition Magazine

A review of the state of change in the Black world

featuring editors Vincent Brown, Glenda Carpio, and Tommie Shelby and poet Robin Coste Lewis

This event includes a book signing

Date

Nov
7
Wednesday
November 7, 2012
8:00 PM ET

Location

Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138

Tickets

This event is free; no tickets are required.

Join Transition editors Vincent Brown, Glenda Carpio, and Tommie Shelby for a reading and celebration of the journal’s mission: to offer the freshest, most compelling writing from and about Africa and the global diaspora.

Reading their favorite excerpts from issues #108 “Boogie Man” and #109 “Persona,” the editors will be joined by special guest and Cave Canem poet Robin Coste Lewis reading poems from Sanctuary

Transition is a unique forum for fresh perspectives on global issues, literature and art, cultures and people, with an emphasis on Africa and the Diaspora. Founded in 1961 in Uganda by the late Rajat Neogy, Transition quickly established itself as a leading forum for intellectual debate. The current series, edited at Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, carries on the original’s tough-minded, far-reaching criticism, both cultural and political.

Glenda Carpio
Glenda Carpio

Glenda Carpio

Glenda Carpio is Professor of African and African American Studies and English at Harvard University. Her book, Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery was published by Oxford University Press in 2008. She is currently working on a book on immigration, expatriation, and exile in American literature. Professor Carpio recently co-edited  African American Literary Studies: New Texts, New Approaches, New Challenges with Professor Werner Sollors.

Tommie Shelby
Tommie Shelby

Tommie Shelby

Tommie Shelby holds a joint appointment with the Department of African and African American Studies. He received his B.A. from Florida A & M University and Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to coming to Harvard in 2000, he taught philosophy at Ohio State University. His main areas of research and teaching are African American philosophy, social and political philosophy, social theory (especially Marxist theory), and philosophy of social science. Professor Shelby is the author of We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity and coeditor of Hip Hop and Philosophy: Rhyme 2 Reason.

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