University of California
Consortium for Black Studies in California
A Multi-Campus Research Program and Initiative
The UC Irvine Campus
Presents
The Young Scholar Lecture Series*
Friday, December 2nd – 4:00PM—6:00PM
The Humanities Commons Conference Room
Humanities Gateway Room 1341, UC Irvine
Sharon Luk, Assistant Professor of English, University of Oregon
The Life of Paper, a Poetics:
Letters and Mass Incarceration in Global California
The Young Scholars Lecture Series is a Program of the University of California Consortium for Black Studies in California,
at UC Irvine
In Conjunction with
The UC Irvine Workshop in Blackness and the Asian Century,
A Program of the UC Consortium for Black Studies in California, at UC Irvine
Co-sponsored by the Departments of Asian American Studies, African American Studies, East Asian Languages and Literatures, and English, at UC Irvine
Light Refreshments will be available at the event.
Event Location: Humanities Commons Conference Room
Humanities Gateway Room 1341, UC Irvine Campus
For information contact: blackthought@uci.edu.
*The work of scholarship is often pushed to the background, in the contemporary configuration of the field of matters African American and the African Diaspora (this can remain true in some other configurations of contemporary knowledge as well). Wherein, on the contrary, theoretical disposition and proclamations of affiliation have often been afforded the foreground. While affirming acute theoretical work, this lecture series accentuates the exacting scholarly dimension of the work required from young practitioners in order for them to produce the most profound and lasting contributions to knowledge, both within the academic formation of the fields they inhabit and within contemporary practices of understanding in general.
