Author Lewis R. Gordon Presents 'Black Consciousness In Wakanda' March 28

03/18/2022

The directors of the University Core curriculum’s Pathways Program are co-hosting a presentation by Professor Lewis R. Gordon, a leading philosopher, who will be presenting his latest book: Fear of Black Consciousness. His talk “Black Consciousness in Wakanda,” will take place on Monday, March 28, at 4 p.m. at Père Marquette Gallery.

This talk is part of an initiative to coordinate collaborative faculty conversations focused on building curricular pathways rooted in our new Core’s “Equity and Global Identities” attributes. 

In addition to Professor Lewis R. Gordon’s talk, a group of SLU Humanities faculty will be discussing how to teach two “transformative texts” selected by Professor Lewis R. Gordon in a series of Faculty seminars. Faculty involved in the seminars will work at adapting the “transformative text” model to SLU’s curriculum in ways that focus all students’ attention on issues of diversity, global interdependence, and structural inequity by anchoring our Humanities pathways in the Core’s three “Equity and Global Identities” attribute areas: Identities in Context, Global Interdependence, and Dignity, Ethics and a Just Society.

For faculty interested in the Faculty seminars,  contact the grant-funded Pathway Directors: Dr. Jen Popiel (History), Dr. Pascale Perraudin (Languages, Literatures and Cultures) and Dr. Harold Braswell (Healthcare Ethics).

This event is part of a Teagle Foundation / National Endowment for the Humanities ‘Cornerstone Learning for Living” planning grant to build pathways through our new University Core curriculum. These pathways will be oriented around “transformative texts:” books — selected by SLU Faculty — that expand individual consciousness and organize knowledge in ways that challenge, in creative ways, existing division between forms of knowledge and inquiry in the humanities and the social, biological and applied sciences.  

The texts will be used to create pathways throughout our core curriculum that are specifically oriented toward the goal of bringing STEM students into contact with the rich tradition of humanistic inquiry.