{"id":3811,"date":"2017-07-07T14:45:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T18:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodwin.edu\/enews\/?p=3811"},"modified":"2025-01-06T13:56:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T18:56:55","slug":"pulitzer-prize-roots-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodwin.edu\/enews\/pulitzer-prize-roots-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Presenters Join Pulitzer Prize Winner at Roots at 40 Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On October 6, 2017, Goodwin College in East Hartford will host<em> Roots at 40<\/em>, a day-long academic conference commemorating the 40th anniversary of the landmark 1977 miniseries based on the book by Alex Haley. Keynote speaker for the conference is <strong>Colson Whitehead<\/strong>, author of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning <em>The Underground Railroad<\/em>. Whitehead\u2019s other works include <em>The Noble Hustle<\/em>, <em>Zone One<\/em>, <em>Sag Harbor<\/em>, <em>The Intuitionist<\/em>, <em>John Henry Days<\/em>, <em>Apex Hides the Hurt<\/em>, and a collection of essays, <em>The Colossus of New York<\/em>. His reviews, essays, and fiction have appeared in the <em>New York Times<\/em>, <em>The New Yorker<\/em>, <em>New York<\/em> Magazine<em>, Harper\u2019s<\/em>, and <em>Granta<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The inspiration for the October conference is Goodwin College\u2019s collection of Alex Haley\u2019s research papers for <em>Roots<\/em>. The College has invited experts from throughout the country to submit proposals for related presentations. As of this writing, the list includes:<\/p>\n<p><em>Reconsidering Roots: Race, Politics, and Memory<\/em>, Erica L. Ball (Occidental College) and Kellie Carter Jackson (Wellesley College); <em>Haley and The Gambia: Tensions Between Kunta Kinte\u2019s Story and Gambia\u2019s Atlantic Past<\/em>, Liza Gijanto (St. Mary\u2019s College of Maryland); <em>An American Horror Story: Apocrypha Noir as the Apocalypse to the American Fairy Tale; or Black Film as Pedagogical Imperative<\/em>, Kelisha Graves (Fayetteville State University); Carly Houston Overfelt, <em>Kunta Kinte\u2019s Linguistic Legacy<\/em>; <em>Good Slaveholders and Questionable Allies: The Moral Ambiguity of the White Characters in \u201cRoots,\u201d<\/em> Laurie F. Leach (Hawai\u2019i Pacific University); and <em>\u201cNeeded More Than Ever\u201d: Re-watching Roots in the Context of Black Lives Matter<\/em>, Allison Page (Old Dominion University), and <em>Making Roots: A Nation Captivated<\/em>, Matthew Delmont, (Arizona State University).<\/p>\n<p>Reservations for attendance may be made at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodwin.edu\/roots\">www.goodwin.edu\/roots<\/a> \u2013 special rates for students and groups. Questions on the <em>Roots at 40<\/em> conference at Goodwin College may be addressed to Susan Hansen at <a href=\"mailto:shansen@goodwin.edu\">shansen@goodwin.edu<\/a> or 860-727-6782.<\/p>\n<p><em>Roots at 40<\/em> is funded, in part, by Connecticut Humanities, a nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, supporting cultural and historic organizations that tell the state\u2019s stories, build community, and enrich lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 6, 2017, Goodwin College in East Hartford will host Roots at 40, a day-long academic conference commemorating the 40th anniversary of the landmark 1977 miniseries based on the book by Alex Haley. 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