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Iida Pöllänen presents: "The Black Renaissance and Its Nordic Affiliations"

March 9

The first decades of the twentieth century witnessed both extreme Jim Crow segregation in the U.S. and a remarkable global interest in the development of black modernist arts and the Black Renaissance. In this talk, Pöllänen will discuss her ongoing postdoctoral research, where she studies the Black Renaissance by focusing on its relations to the Nordic countries – a geographical area that has thus far been largely neglected in black modernist scholarship. By taking as point of departure the transnational and intertextual connections between African American and Nordic literature from the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, her project examines how discussions of race, racism, and the arts traveled and developed through literary texts on both sides of the Atlantic. Pöllänen's project aims to trace the underexplored ways in which Nordic literature affected the development of Black Renaissance arts, and how the products of that Renaissance, conversely, were later appropriated into a largely white political and cultural context in Northern Europe.

Moe Visiting Lecture in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies

The Moe Visiting Lectureship was endowed by Robert and Karin Moe in honor of their daughter, Kris Burke Moe, class of 1984. This lectureship had become a signature event in the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies program at Gustavus. It has afforded us the opportunity to bring top feminist scholars from the fields of Biology, English, Nursing, Philosophy, History, and Theatre to Gustavus. It has been invaluable in attracting students from a number of different disciplines to our program.