Author, scholar Ersula Ore will discuss state-sanctioned racial violence
Tue, 04/06/2021 LAWRENCE — A winner of the Rhetoric Society of America Book Award will bring further insight to ongoing conversations at the University of Kansas and beyond about how to respond to state-sanctioned racial violences in the era of #BlackLivesMatter. Ersula Ore, the 2021 John F. Eberhardt Memorial Lecturer in KU’s Department of English, will present a virtual talk titled “Sandy’s ‘Black Looks’: Countertemporal Postures and the Reclamation of Time” at 4 p.m. April 13. Taking Sandra Bland’s 2015 arrest as a point of departure, Ore will discuss how misogynoir arrests...
Source: ku.edu