2026 Knox Lecture – Tommie Shelby (Harvard University)
Title: Solidarity, Politics, and Intellectual Life Abstract: This lecture will examine what role intellectuals from oppressed groups should play in the struggle for their group's liberation. It draws on the work of W. E. B. Du Bois and Richard Wright—canonical figures in the Black Radical tradition—to ask whether such intellectuals should subordinate their interest in art ... Read more