Black Queer Studies Conference, 25th Anniversary, UNC-Chapel Hill, Representing the Race: Queer Images of Blackness. Panelists: (L to R) Antonia Randolph, La Marre Jurelle Bruce, Amber Musser, Charles Nero (Moderator)
Charles I. Nero on Spike Lee's BlacKKKlansman, Maine International Film Festival Cinema in Conversation (2/26/2021)
It's The Langston Hughes Society's 40th anniversary. In honor of this milestone, The Langston Hughes Society, co-sponsored by CLA, is hosting a discussion inspired by the Netflix adaptation of Nella Larsen's Passing. Panelists include renowned scholars Dr. Tara Betts, Dr. Julia S. Charles, Dr. Karla FC Holloway, Dr. Charles Nero, and Dr. Donavan L. Ramon. Dr. Tara T. Green will serve as moderator. Join us on Tuesday, November 16th at 7:00 PM on Zoom.
Zoom Link https://US02web.zoom.us/j/8840662336
Happy to join these scholars to discuss this special issue of CLAJournal. My essay appears as “No Crips Allowed: The Hyper-Abled Black Male Body in Steven Spielberg’s Amistad and Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther. College Language Association Journal, Special Issue on Blackness and Disability Studies 64.1 (2021): 52-61.
8/28/2020
I was honored to deliver the lecture "What Emancipation Meant to Benjamin Mays and What It Means Now" for the 50th Reunion of the Bates College Class of 1969 (6/7/2019).
Hortense J. Spillers Visits Bates to Deliver the Carleton Lecture; Lunch with Students from White Redemption (3/6/2018)