Making Sense: Examining the Haptic in Slavery and Medicine, Deirdre Cooper Owens (M.H. Lecture, 5/22/2019)
Posted: 5/6/2019 (Local Events)
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Deirdre Cooper Owens is an Associate Professor of History at Queens College, CUNY and an Organization of American Historians’ (OAH) Distinguished Lecturer. Cooper Owens has won a number of awards and honors that range from serving as an American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology Fellow in Washington, D.C. to being the inaugural recipient of the Zora Neale Hurston Award from the Black Feminist Project. Her first book, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology (UGA Press, 2017) won the 2018 Darlene Clark Hine Book Award from the OAH. Cooper Owens is also the Director of the Program in African American History at the Library Company of Philadelphia, the country’s oldest cultural institution. Currently, she is working on a second book project that examines mental illness during the era of United States slavery and is also writing a popular biography of Harriet Tubman that examines her through the lens of disability.
ABOUT THIS LECTURE SERIES
This lecture was established to honor the memory of our beloved colleague, Stephanie M.H. Camp, who was the Donald W. Logan Family Endowed Chair in American History, and the author of the award-winning book Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South (2004). Before her untimely death in 2014, Professor Camp was writing a book about race and beauty. Her work remains a powerful influence on the fields of race, gender, and slavery in and beyond American history. This lecture is made possible by the generous contributions to the Stephanie Camp Lecture Fund for the History of Race and Gender, www.giving.uw.edu/StephanieCamp.
Date: 05/22/2019
Time: 3:30 – 5:00 PM
Location: Ethnic Cultural Center Theater