S2633 James Baldwin: Literature, Memory, and the Moral Imagination

S2633 James Baldwin: Literature, Memory, and the Moral Imagination

Class | Registration opens Monday, March 16, 2026 10:00 AM EDT

4/30/2026 (one day)
10:00 AM-11:30 AM EDT on Th
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S2633 James Baldwin: Literature, Memory, and the Moral Imagination

Class | Registration opens Monday, March 16, 2026 10:00 AM EDT

This class invites participants into the powerful world of James Baldwin, one of America’s most insightful writers and moral voices. Through his essays, novels, speeches, and interviews, we will explore how Baldwin confronts the great questions of life: How do we face history? How do we live with others? What do we owe to truth? Can love be a political force? Reading Baldwin is not an academic exercise; it is a conversation about life experience.

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Ekotto, Frieda
Frieda Ekotto

Frieda Ekotto is a Lorna Goodison Collegiate Professor of Afroamerican and Africa Studies, Comparative Literature and Francophone Studies. Ekotto is currently working on Global Blackness Experiences, aiming to document the lived experience of Blackness in a global context in view of expanding the notion of Blackness in America.