Talk Title: “Whereas Active Love is Labor and Perseverance”: Dostoevskian Love in James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison’s Political Theology
Speaker: Paul Cato, Ph.D Candidate, UChicago Committee on Social Thought
Description: Paul will share a chapter from his dissertation-in-progress (noted above) and comment on his experience writing the first dissertation on an African American thinker in the history of his department, the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. In addition to inviting responses to the themes of the chapter, the discussion that follows will invite participants to grapple with the perils and possibilities inherent in attempts to expand the canon through scholarly work across humanistic disciplines.
Though Paul will join us virtually from the Midwest, local participants will gather together in the Dana-Palmer Seminar Room where we will have ample food for attendees. Those not local to Boston are welcome to join virtually (be sure to indicate that below).
