An Intimate Evening with Christina Sharpe's Notes
- Date
- November 17, 2023
- Time
- 6:00 PM EST - 7:00 PM EST
- Location
- Society Clubhouse
Join TMU faculty for a special evening at the Society Clubhouse (wheelchair accessible) where we will convene for a reading and engagement with Christina Sharpe's award winning and path breaking text: Ordinary Notes.
Let's gather for Black thought, provocation and world making.
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About Christina Sharpe:
Christina Sharpe is Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University, has been described by the New York Times as “shaping a generation of Black Thought.” She is one of the most influential contemporary scholars in North America.
"Christina Sharpe is a brilliant thinker who attends unflinchingly to the brutality of our current arrangements . . . and yet always finds a way to beauty and possibility" (Saidiya Hartman).
Her recent book, Ordinary Notes (2023), has been named a finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction. A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake. In a series of 248 notes that gather meaning as we read them, Christina Sharpe skillfully weaves artifacts from the past—public ones alongside others that are poignantly personal—with present realities and possible futures, intricately constructing an immersive portrait of everyday Black existence. The themes and tones that echo through these pages—sometimes about language, beauty, memory; sometimes about history, art, photography, and literature—always attend, with exquisite care, to the ordinary-extraordinary dimensions of Black life.
