The 2022 Eric Williams Memorial Lecture—“One Individual, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy”—options keynote speaker Dr. Carol Anderson (Professor of African American Research at Emory College). The lecture will happen on Thursday April 14, 2022, on the AT&T Lodge and Convention Middle (1900 College Avenue, Austin, Texas) from 5:00 to 7:30pm. This occasion is free and open to the general public. Reception to observe. Face masks are strongly inspired. The keynote speech will even be live-streamed on-line. Please click on HERE to register upfront.
In April 2021, the Eric Williams Memorial Lecture (EWML) moved from Florida Worldwide College to its new residence on the John L. Warfield Middle for African and African American Research at The College of Texas at Austin. Based in 1999, the collection honors the late Dr. Eric Williams (1911-1981), scholar, statesman, and Head of the Authorities of Trinidad and Tobago from 1956 till his demise in 1981. Williams authored Capitalism and Slavery (1944), the landmark research that has been translated into 9 languages: Chinese language, Japanese, Russian, Turkish, Korean, Spanish, amongst them (with a Dutch translation forthcoming). It continues to tell the continued debate about slavery and abolition. [ Now available for purchase from The University of North Carolina Press: uncpress.org.]
This system schedule:
4:30pm – 5:00pm CDT: Attendee Examine-in
5:00pm – 5:30pm CDT: Program Welcome & Opening Remarks
5:30pm – 6:30pm CDT: Keynote Speech by Dr. Carol Anderson
6:30pm – 7:30pm CDT: Reception/E-book Gross sales & Signing
The digital exhibition, Celebrating Eric Williams, coordinated by the Eric Williams Memorial Assortment Analysis Library, Archives & Museum, and UT’s Black Diaspora Archive and mounted by Black Diaspora Archivist Rachel Winston will be considered HERE. Exhibition supplies are obtainable in English and Spanish.
In case you have any questions, please e mail Christina Bryant (Warfield Middle Senior Program Coordinator) at clbryant@austin.utexas.edu.
Sponsored by: The John L. Warfield Middle for African & African American Research, Eric Williams Memorial Assortment, and UT Middle for the Research of Race and Democracy (CSRD)
For extra info, see https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/caaas/occasions/2022-eric-williams-memorial-lecture
[Above: Dr. Anderson photographed for the cover of Emory Nursing Magazine. Stephen Nowland/Emory University.]