Burning the Midnight Oil: Reckoning with the Stakes
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Description
In this talk, Visiting Assistant Professor Camilla Bell-Ferdinand will trouble the idea of “stakes,” especially when one is deeply committed to education for liberation. What are the costs and more importantly, for whom? As James Baldwin asserts in "A Talk to Teachers," truly, we are living through and teaching in dangerous times, spaces, and places. And yet, the risks of not pushing our students to think critically about issues of justice within and beyond the confines of the classroom space abound. Join her as she discusses the critical nexus between fugitivity, freedom, and education, and what it means for students and educators to collectively "burn the midnight oil."This event is part of the Center's brown bag series.Lunch will be provided.