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Book Lecture: "James Baldwin: The Witness, A Portrait" with author René Aguigah

Author René Aguigah and scholar Rich Blint discuss their research on the American literary legend and civil rights champion, James Baldwin.

11/14/2024
5 pm – 7 pm
Kemeny Hall 008
Intended Audience(s): Public
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Celebrating a James Baldwin centennial, join author René Aguigah and scholar Rich Blint for a conversation on Aguigah's new book, James Baldwin, The Witness: A Portrait (2024).

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René Aguigah is a cultural journalist based in Berlin. He heads the literature desk at German public radio (Deutschlandfunk and Deutschlandradio Kultur) and has been a juror at the Leipzig Book Fair and a Fellow at the Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles. Aguigah is the author of the book James Baldwin: Der Zeuge. Ein Porträt (2024). 

Rich Blint, a scholar, writer, and specialist on James Baldwin, is currently a Research Associate in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania where he's completing two upcoming books.

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This event is sponsored by Department of History, the Department of German Studies, the office of the Associate Dean of International Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies, and the Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life at Dartmouth.

 

For more information, contact:
Stefan Link
stefan.j.link@dartmouth.edu
Permanent URL to this event: https://history.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=76063

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