Event today: Panel discussion about ‘#BLM and the Popular Imagination’

(Posted Feb. 17, 2021)

Austin Peay State University’s Department of Languages and Literature will host an online panel discussion titled “#BLM and the Popular Imagination.”

The discussion is 5-6:30 p.m. Feb. 17 via Zoom. You can register for the discussion here.

An interdisciplinary panel of scholars will lead a discussion about the images of Black Lives Matter in popular culture. The question-and-answer session will follow the panel discussion.

APSU’s Drs. Paula White and Jesse Williams will be the discussion moderators. Event panelists include Drs. Jessica Blake, APSU; Pearl Dowe, Emory University; Brandon Manning, Texas Christian University; and Deadric Williams, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

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