Events

Please join us for a talk by

Frank B. Wilderson III

Afropessimism and the Status of the Subject

On Thursday April 22  at 5:00PM Pacific Time, live via Zoom.

Afropessimism, Frank B. Wilderson III’s unique work of literature, philosophy, and memoir, asks the question: why does race—in its myriad manifestations—seem to color almost every pore of our moral and political universe? This provocative question among others guides Wilderson’s exploration of Black suffering and how a perpetual form of political, intellectual, and cultural slavery continues to define the Black experience. Wilderson is an award-winning writer and Chancellor’s Professor and chair of African American Studies at UC Irvine. The talk is followed by a Q&A moderated by UCLA professor Kenneth Reinhard.

Sponsored by the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory, The Hammer Museum, the UCLA Departments of English and Comparative Literature, the 1939 Society Chair, and the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy.

To RSVP in order to receive the zoom link, please go to the Hammer Museum webpage here.