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HOOKS INSTITUTE 2011 EVENTS
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DECEMBER 2011
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Dec. 31
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Deadline for Submission of Abstracts
Deadline for nominations for Benjamin L. Hooks Institute Book Award
Winner receives $1,000 and will deliver an on-campus address. This award will go
to the book published in 2011 that best furthers understanding of the American Civil
Rights Movement and its legacy.
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NOVEMBER 2011
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Nov. 9
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Lecture by Judy Richardson, one of six editors of Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC. Winner of the 2010 National Hooks Institute Book Award
University Center Bluff Room, 6:30 to 8 pm. This event is free and open to the public.
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SEPTEMBER 2011
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Sept. 14
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The Hooks Institute's Annual Open House
Michael D. Rose Theatre, University of Memphis, 2:30 pm
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APRIL 2011
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April 4
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Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church and Memphis Theological Seminary presents:
An Evening with Dr. Allan Boesak: Pastor, Human Rights Activist, Martin Luther King
Scholar, and leader of the Struggle Against Apartheid in South Africa, 7:00 pm
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April 7
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Hooks Roundtable: A Session to Structure a Civil and Human Rights Conference in April 2012 to Explore
the Evolution of the Civil and Human Rights Movements
Rose Theatre Entertainment Lobby, University of Memphis, 2:00 - 4:00 pm
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April 30
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The Benjamin L. Hooks Job Corps presents the Dr. Benjamin L. Hooks 1st Annual Memorial
5K Run/Walk
Proceeds to benefit the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University
of Memphis and the National Civil Rights Museum. For more information, please visit
http://www.yourturnnow.org/ |
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FEBRUARY 2011
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| Feb. 10 |
Fiftieth Anniversary of the publication of Franz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth, featuring
Lewis Gordon, PhD, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy, Temple University
University Center, University of Memphis, 6:00 pm Sponsored by the Marcus W. Orr
Center for the Humanities at the University of Memphis. Hooks Institute, Co-Sponsor
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Feb. 17 & 19
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Freedom's Front Line
A Hooks Institute documentary on the struggle to gain the right to vote by African
Americans in Fayette County, TN.
WKNO-TV (Memphis) Channel 10, Feb. 17 at 7:30 p.m. and Feb. 19 at 2:30 p.m.
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