SWG READS
Presents an evening with
Saidiya Hartman
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Weinstein Auditorium
7:30 pm
In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman
traces the history of the Atlantic slave
trade by recounting a journey she
took along a slave route in Ghana.
Following the trail of captives from
the hinterland to the Atlantic coast,
she reckons with the blank slate of
her own genealogy and vividly
dramatizes the effects of slavery on
three centuries of African and
African American history.
Saidiya Hartman teaches at Columbia University,
she received a B. A., Wesleyan University (1984);
Ph.D., Yale University (1992).
Professor Hartman's major fields of interest are
African American and American literature and
cultural history, slavery, law and literature, and
performance studies.
This lecture is free and open to the public
This lecture is sponsored by the Program in the Study of Women and Gender
and the Smith College Lecture Committee.