"The Dying of Democracy Everywhere: The U.S., Iran, and the Middle East," a talk by Dr. Cornel West

DATE
Fri, 02/14/2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
LOCATION
UCI Student Center, Crystal Cove Auditorium
DETAILS

Please join us in UCI Student Center, Crystal Cove Auditorium on February 14.

A Q&A will follow the talk with Dr. Cornel West in conversation with the Director of UCI Jordan Center for Persian Studies & Culture, Dr. Touraj Daryaee and the Dean of UCI School of Humanities, Dr. Tyrus Miller.

Cornel West is a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual. He is Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University and holds the title of Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He has also taught at Union Theological Seminary, Yale, Harvard, and the University of Paris. Cornel West graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in three years and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at Princeton. He has written 20 books and has edited 13. He is best known for his classics, Race Matters and Democracy Matters, and for his memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. His most recent book, Black Prophetic Fire, offers an unflinching look at nineteenth and twentieth-century African American leaders and their visionary legacies. Dr. West is a frequent guest on the Bill Maher Show, CNN, C-Span and Democracy Now. He made his film debut in the Matrix – and was the commentator (with Ken Wilbur) on the official trilogy released in 2004. He also has appeared in over 25 documentaries and films including Examined Life, Call & Response, Sidewalk and Stand. He has produced three spoken word albums including Never Forget, collaborating with Prince, Jill Scott, Andre 3000, Talib Kweli, KRS-One and the late Gerald Levert. His spoken word interludes are featured on productions by Terence Blanchard, The Cornel West Theory, Raheem DeVaughn, and Bootsy Collins. In short, Cornel West has a passion to communicate to a vast variety of publics in order to keep alive the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. – a legacy of telling the truth and bearing witness to love and justice.

This event is presented by UCI Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture in collaboration with UCI School of Humanities, UCI Humanities Center, UCI School of the Law, UCI School of Social Sciences and UCI School of Social Ecology.

More info: https://www.humanities.uci.edu/SOH/calendar/event_details.php?eid=8384

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