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The Green-Taylor Lectures: A Black Life and Letters Speakers Series presents, Imani Perry
October 22, 2024 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Imani Perry is the Henry A. Morss, Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor of Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, and a Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at The Radcliffe Institute. She is the author of eight books, including South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation, which won the 2023 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Dr. Perry is also a MacArthur Fellow, and co-director of The Black Teacher Archive.The Green-Taylor Lectures is a speaker series celebrating the intersections of Black Studies, Architecture and Design. Over the course of the year, the series will feature voices from across these fields in an effort to illuminate both the unique history of African American architects here at MIT—the Institute’s first Black graduate, Robert R. Taylor, as well as two of the first Black women to attend MIT, Marie Turner and Gloria Green, all studied architecture during their time on campus—and contemporary work in the field that honors the role of worldmaking in the Black expressive tradition.
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