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Nahum Chandler, assistant professor in the Humanities Center of Johns Hopkins University, will speak on “W.E.B. Du Bois, the Philadelphia Negro Project and the Conception of African American Studies” noon Thursday in the Marlo Room of Farinon College Center.
The event is sponsored by the American Studies program. Free lunch will be provided.
Chandler’s specialties are in modern philosophy, intellectual history, and critical theory. He serves on the editorial board of the journal Postmodern Culture.
Chandler’s conception of Du Bois goes beyond the political activist who was a founding figure for the NAACP. He noted that Du Bois, the first African American to earn a Ph.D. at Harvard, was also a scholar who spent 15 years as an academic. Chandler’s research shows that Du Bois was so well published that by the time of his death at age 95 on the eve of the Civil Rights March on Washington in 1963, he had what amounted to six pages of publishable material for every day of his life.