Monday, April 22, 2019 - 5:00pm to Thursday, April 25, 2019 - 7:00pm
Express Newark
& 15 Washington Street
SPEAKERS:
Isabel Wilkerson, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Ayana Mathis
ADMISSION:
Free with RSVP: http://bit.ly/TannerFest
Flowing: Human Migrations and Human Values
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values Festival at Rutgers University-Newark
RSVP: http://bit.ly/TannerFest
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On April 24 and 25, Rutgers University-Newark (RU-N) will host “Flowing: Human Migrations and Human Values,” a week-long festival of art and ideas in celebration of the Tanner Lecture on Human Values. The first day will feature the public conversation “African-American Movements & Migration Narratives” between Columbia University professor Farah Jasmine Griffin and novelist Ayana Mathis. On the second day, pioneering and celebrated journalist Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration will deliver the keynote Tanner Lecture.
Our two-day festival explores migrations within and to the United States, both historical and contemporary, as repositories of ideas and experiences that we might harness and point toward brighter, more just futures. It begins on the evening of Wednesday, April 24, with a public conversation by a writer and a scholar of migration narratives. Ayana Mathis, author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, and Columbia University’s Farah Jasmine Griffin, author of Who Set You Flowin’: The African American Migration Narrative, will discuss the artistic life and impact of the Great Migration in American life. This will be followed by a public reception.
On Thursday, April 25, a discussion panel comprised of five RU-N students will share individual and familial stories of migration and explore common themes and legacies of those experiences. The panel will be followed by Isabel Wilkerson’s keynote Tanner Lecture on Human Values.
Over these two days, our entire campus will be activated by our theme and feature a photography exhibition on Louis Armstrong’s migratory music curated by Shine Portrait Studio and the Institute of Jazz Studies; the Oral History Jukebox by New Arts Justice in Express Newark; and a multiseries video installation from Newest Americans.
Week of April 21-28
Oral History Jukebox
Louis Armstrong Exhibition
We Came And Stayed Video Installation
Wednesday, April 24
2:30 – 3:50 p.m. RU-N Student Panel: Sharing stories of migration and immigration
4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Reception
5:00 p.m. “African-American Movements & Migration Narratives” A conversation with Ayanna Mathis and Farah Jasmine Griffin
Followed by book signing
Thursday, April 25
5:00 p.m. Tanner Lecture Reception
5:30 p.m. Tanner Lecture: Isabel Wilkerson
Followed by book signing
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