Inventing Racial Whiteness: Early Modern Playbooks of Racial Triangulation

Activity Type: 
Lecture
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Presenter: 
Noémie Ndiaye
Date: 
Wednesday, April 2, 2025 - 13:30 to 15:00
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Location: 
William Pitt Union Ballroom
Contact Person: 
Erica Edwards
Contact Email: 
eee36@pitt.edu

Join us for an event featuring Noémie Ndiaye, Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Chicago, whose research focuses on early modern English, French, and Spanish theater with an emphasis on race. Ndiaye will discuss her award-winning book, Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race (2022), which explores how performance culture influenced the construction of race in early modern Europe. Her book has received multiple prestigious awards, including the 2023 Bevington Award and the 2023 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize. Ndiaye is also the co-editor of Seeing Race Before Race (2023), which won the 2024 PROSE Award for Art Exhibitions. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from a leading scholar in the field!

Refreshments after the lecture

UCIS Unit: 
European Studies Center
European Union Center of Excellence
Other Pitt Sponsors: 
Early Modern Worlds
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Africana Studies
Jewish Studies
Literature Program
Theatre Arts
History of Art and Architecture
Spanish
Portuguese
Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Department of French and Italian Department of History Department of German Department of Religious Studies Jewish Studies Program
Is Event Already in University Calendar?: 
No