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From: CMC_Students Subject: FW: "Listening to Nina Simone: Myth, Meme, and the Icon of a Movement"

On Behalf Of Amy Emmert

Scripps College Humanities Institute invites you to an evening with Salamishah Tillet, associate professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and co-founder of the nonprofit A Long Walk Home, as part of our spring 2014 series "Feminisms and the Radical Imagination."

Tuesday, February 4, 7:30 p.m. Garrison Theater, Scripps College Performing Arts Center

“Listening to Nina Simone: Myth, Meme, and the Icon of a Movement”

SALAMISHAH TILLET Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and co-founder of the nonprofit A Long Walk Home

Generously co-sponsored by the Alexa Fullerton Hampton Fund

Ten years after her death, Nina Simone is more popular today than when she was alive. In 2013, Beyonce name-dropped Simone as her sole predecessor in her documentary, Life is but a Dream. This same year, a character based on Simone appeared in the Broadway musical, Soul Doctor, while actress Zoe Saldana set off an Internet firestorm when she was cast in the title role in the upcoming biographical film, Nina. And no one has sampled her more than Kanye West, who has invoked her on all but one of his albums, including Yeezus’ most controversial track. In this talk, Professor Salamishah Tillet traces how Nina Simone, through her own act of self-fashioning and our subsequent reinventions of her, emerges as one of our most cherished and complicated symbols of "freedom."

In 2003, Salamishah and her sister, Scheherazade Tillet, co-founded A Long Walk Home, Inc., a nonprofit that uses art therapy and the visual and performing arts to end violence against girls and women. Salamishah was also an associate producer of Aishah Shahidah Simmons' groundbreaking NO! The Rape Documentary and was featured in the award-winning Rape Is ... by Cambridge Documentary Films.

She is the author of Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination. In 2011, she wrote the liner notes for the three-time Grammy-award-winning album, Wake Up! by and The Roots. This year, she publishedGloria Steinem: The Kindle Singles Interview with Amazon, and she is currently working on a book on Civil Rights icon Nina Simone. She earned her doctorate in the history of American civilization and master's in English and American literature from and her master's in the art of teaching from . She has her bachelor's degree in English and African American studies from the University of Pennsylvania, from which she graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. In 2010, she was awarded the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Award for Distinguished Teaching by an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2010-11, she was the recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellow for Career Enhancement and served as a visiting fellow at the Center of African American Studies at . In 2013-14, she was invited to be an inaugural member of the Project of the Advancement of Our Common Humanity, a think tank at to focus on our crisis of 1 connection and creating a more just and humane world. She is also a scholar-in-residence at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Upcoming Events --

Tuesday, February 11, 7:30 p.m. Garrison Theater, Scripps College Performing Arts Center “Kinnie Starr Declares Sovereignty: Intersections of an Indigenous, Feminist, Activist, and Hip Hop Politics” CHARITY MARSH Canada Research Chair in Interactive Media and Popular Music Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Regina

Tuesday, February 18, 7:30 p.m. Garrison Theater, Scripps College Performing Arts Center “Afrolez®femcentric Perspectives on Coloring and Queering Gender-Based Violence” AISHAH SHAHIDAH SIMMONS Erma O’Brien Distinguished Professor, Scripps College and Producer, Writer, and Director, NO! The Rape Documentary

Tuesday, February 25, 7:30 p.m. Garrison Theater, Scripps College Performing Arts Center Film screening of My Left Breast by GERRY ROGERS Member of the House of Assembly, Newfoundland and Labrador and feminist filmmaker/activist (USA, 2002, 57 minutes)

Tuesday, March 4, 7:30 p.m. Garrison Theater, Scripps College Performing Arts Center “Miss Rose Coyote plays her last Big Trick: catch her act down at the intersection of Gender, Ethnicity, Race, Power, and Social Justice” RAYNA GREEN Curator Emerita, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

Tuesday, March 11, 7:30 p.m. Garrison Theater, Scripps College Performing Arts Center “Eldridge Cleaver Visits Pyongyang, Hanoi, and Peking: Afro-Asian Internationalism, Radical Orientalism, and Global Feminism” JUDY TZU-CHUN WU Professor of History and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Ohio State University Generously co-sponsored by the Intercollegiate Department of Africana Studies

Tuesday, March 25, 7:30 p.m. Garrison Theater, Scripps College Performing Arts Center “Contextualizing Womanhood and Blackness in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess” NAOMI ANDRÉ Associate Professor of Women's Studies, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, and the Residential College,

Wednesday, April 2, noon

2 Hampton Room, Malott Commons "Chicana Borderlands Sonic Imaginaries" DEBORAH R. VARGAS, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside Bring your lunch or purchase lunch in Malott Commons Dining Hall. Dessert and coffee provided.

Wednesday, April 9, noon Hampton Room, Malott Commons "Hawaiian Women and the Nationalist Politics of Indigeneity" J. KĒHAULANI KAUANUI Associate Professor of American Studies and Anthropology, Wesleyan University Bring your lunch or purchase lunch in Malott Commons Dining Hall. Dessert and coffee provided.

Tuesday, April 15, 7:30 p.m. Garrison Theater, Scripps College Performing Arts Center “Entre Mujeres (Between Women): Embodied Knowledges” CÁNDIDA F. JÁQUEZ Director, Scripps College Humanities Institute Associate Professor of Music, Scripps College Adjunct Faculty, Claremont Graduate University MARTHA GONZALEZ Assistant Professor of Chicano Studies, Scripps College ALMA MARTINEZ Actress and Author HELENA MARÍA VIRAMONTES Author and Professor of Creative Writing, Cornell University

************************** "FEMINISMS AND THE RADICAL IMAGINATION" Join us this semester as we explore multiple feminist narratives and trajectories, addressing the intersections of gender, ethnicity, race, power, and social justice within and beyond the academy.

Events are free and open to the public.

For more details, visit www.scrippscollege.edu/hi or www.Facebook.com/Scripps.Humanities.Institute. Driving directions and parking information can be found here at http://www.scrippscollege.edu/about/directions.php. Events are FREE and open to the public. No tickets required. Doors open at 7:00 p.m.

Amy Emmert Program Administrator Scripps College Humanities Institute 1030 Columbia Avenue Claremont, CA 91711-3905 Office location: Steele 204 P: 909.621.8237 F: 909.621.8845 [email protected] http://www.scrippscollege.edu/hi

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