Berlin Family Lectures: Claudia Rankine with Jennifer Packer
In the first of three Berlin Family Lectures, renowned poet and playwright Claudia Rankine will have discussions focused around the concept of Meanwhile. In exploring this concept, Rankine will be joined by visual artist Jennifer Packer to consider how Packer's paintings inhabit the processing of historical time. Click for details on Part 2 and Part 3 of this series.
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This is a hybrid event, and registration is required for both in-person and virtual participation. The in-person event will be held at The Rubenstein Forum, Friedman Hall.
About the author: Claudia Rankine is a past recipient of a MacArthur “Genius Grant” and the author of five books of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don't Let Me Be Lonely three plays including HELP, which premiered in March 2020 (The Shed, NYC), and The White Card, which premiered in February 2018 (ArtsEmerson / American Repertory Theater) and was published by Graywolf Press in 2019; and numerous video collaborations. Her recent collection of essays, Just Us: An American Conversation, was published by Graywolf Press in 2020. She is also the co-editor of several anthologies including The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind. In 2016, Rankine co-founded The Racial Imaginary Institute (TRII). Among her numerous awards and honors, Rankine is the recipient of the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, the Poets & Writers’ Jackson Poetry Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, United States Artists, and the National Endowment of the Arts. A former Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Claudia Rankine joined the New York University Creative Writing Program as a Professor of Creative Writing in Fall 2021.
About the interlocutor: Jennifer Packer is an American painter living and working in New York City. In 2020, she won the Hermitage Greenfield Prize and the Rome Prize. Packer won the Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome 2020-2021.
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