Pizza Discussion Supper with David Levering
Lewis
Historian, Biographer, and the Winner of Two Pulitzer Prizes
- Thurs., Nov. 17, 2005
- 5-6:30 p.m.
- Honors
House, 324
N. Jordan
- SIGN-UP REQUIRED!
David Levering Lewis has been described as "having a unique mind, an
extraordinary life history, and a brilliant ability to bring history
alive." His scholarship has ranged across the continents and the
centuries and includes books on American, European, and African history:
on the Dreyfus Affair in France, the "scramble" for Africa in the late
nineteenth century, the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, American civil
rights leaders of the 19th and 20th centuries — including Martin
Luther
King Jr. — and, forthcoming, the "Islamic Invention of Europe" in
the 8th
century. His awards include a MacArthur "genius" grant, the Ralph Waldo
Emerson Award, Harvard's Horace Mann Bond Book Award, two Anisfield-Wolf
Book awards, the Bancroft and Parkman prizes, and two Pulitzer prizes, one
for each of his two volumes on W.E.B. Du Bois: W.E.B. Du Bois:
Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 and W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for
Equality and the American Century. His has written on the politics
of art, the role of
class, the color line, American "exceptionalism," and a wide range of
other topics. Join us for a supper discussion that can range as widely as
you wish. David Levering Lewis is a professor of history and the Julius
Silver University Professor at New York University.
On campus as a Patten Lecturer, David Levering
Lewis will present two public lectures. The first, tentatively titled
"The Contested National Narrative: W.E.B. DuBois and Others," will be held
on Tuesday, Nov. 15, at 7:30 p.m. in Rawles 100. The second lecture,
tentatively titled "Civil Rights versus Economic Democracy: A Lost Moment
for the South and the Nation," will be held on Thursday, Nov. 17 at 7:30
p.m. in Swain West 119.
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