bell hooks Returns to The New School
for final visit in three-year residency

The American author, feminist and social activist in conversation with Charles Blow, Theaster Gates, Kevin Powell, Laurie Anderson and Beverly Guy Sheftall Oct. 5- 9 in New York City

WHAT:

Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School welcomes back author, activist and feminist scholar bell hooks as scholar-in-residence. Her fifth and final visit in a three-year residency will feature conversations with leading public intellectuals and scholars, including artist Theaster Gates (October 5), political activist Kevin Powell (October 6), writers and activists Marci Blackman and Darnell Moore (October 7), New York Times columnist Charles Blow (October 8), and writer and professor Beverly Guy-Sheftall (October 9).

Named “one of the nation’s leading public intellectuals” by The Atlantic, hooks has authored or edited more than 40 books and countless articles on feminism, spirituality, race, and class. They include the acclaimed Ain’t I A Woman?, Black Women and Feminism, and Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center. Her most recent book, published in 2012, is a collection of essays entitled Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice.

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WHO:

bell hooks: Author, activist, feminist and scholar-in-residence at The New School

Theaster Gates: Chicago-based installation artist and recipient of the inaugural Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics at The New School

Kevin Powell: Activist, writer, public speaker and entrepreneur

Marci Blackman: Activist and writer

Darnell Moore: Senior Editor at MicNews and Co-Managing Editor at The Feminist Wire

Charles Blow: Journalist and current visual op-ed columnist for the New York Times

Beverly Guy-Sheftall: Feminist scholar, writer and editor, and Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women’s Studies and English at Spelman College

WHEN

bell hooks + Theaster Gates
Monday, Oct. 5, 6:30 p.m.
Wollman Hall, 65 West 11th Street

bell hooks + Kevin Powell
Tuesday, Oct. 6, 4 p.m.
Wollman Hall, 65 West 11th Street

bell hooks + Laurie Anderson
Wednesday October 7, 6:30 p.m.
Wollman Hall, 65 West 11th Street

bell hooks + Charles Blow
Thursday, Oct. 8, 6:30 p.m.
The Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street

bell hooks + Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Friday, Oct. 9, 6:30 p.m.
Wollman Hall, 65 West 11th Street

WHERE

The New School, 65 West 11th Street; or streamed live online at http://new.livestream.com/TheNewSchool

TICKETS The event is free, but members of the media must rsvp with Scott Gargan at [email protected] or 212.229.5667 x 3794

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