Today's Events | Center for Women's Studies
Join us for a Center for Women's Studies Brown Bag Discussion on Post-Katrina Geographies and the African American Novel with Dana Cypress. Cypress is an assistant professor in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Colgate University. She completed her PhD at the University of Pennsylvania.In August 2005 Hurricane Katrina landed on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, devastating vulnerable communities in Louisiana and Mississippi. Since then, this historic ecological disaster has become an important scene shaping an emerging canon of Black post-Katrina fiction. Contemporary novels by Jesmyn Ward, Kiese Laymon, and T. Geronimo Johnson establish New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast as a Black critical geography that maps the coming-of-age of millennial protagonists managing an onslaught of interrelated crises that are exacerbated by the hurricane and its aftermath.

Today's Events | Palace Theater
This presentation will examine Dixon's portrayal of the Shakers and the Oneida Community in his books New America and Spiritual Wives. OC leader John Humphrey Noyes took umbrage at Dixon's portrayal, resulting in a lengthy public war of words. For better or worse, Dixon gave each community global exposure, offering Victorians a vicarious opportunity to engage with counter-cultural religious traditions.Presenter: Christian Goodwillie is Director and Curator of Special Collections at the Burke Library of Hamilton College in Clinton, NY. He was Curator of Collections at Hancock Shaker Village from 2001-2009 and has authored, co-authored, or edited twelve books and numerous articles on the Shakers, Freemasonry, and other topics.