LEONARD HASTINGS SCHOFF MEMORIAL LECTURES

THE UNIVERSITY SEMINARS & COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS

announce the twenty-fourth series of the

LEONARD HASTINGS SCHOFF MEMORIAL LECTURES

to be given by

Robert G. O’Meally

Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature;

Director, Center for Jazz Studies, Columbia University

“FANCY STICKS”:

The Action-Art of Toni Morrison, Romare Bearden, and Jazz

Monday, November 14, 2016, 8 PM

1. “If the White Man Is Laughing at Me, at Least He’s Not Shooting at Me”:
2. Ralph Ellison and Jean-Michel Basquiat on Louis Armstrong’s Intercontinental Comedy

Monday, November 21, 2016, 8 PM

1. The Open Corner—Space Is the Place: Romare Bearden,Toni Morrison, Duke Ellington

Monday, November 28, 2016, 8 PM

 Questions of Translation: Paris Blue—from Novel and Movie to Collage

Reception immediately following each lecture

All lectures are held in Faculty House, 64 Morningside Drive

Lectures are free and open to the public