Dear colleagues and friends,
The University of Toronto Faculty Association would like to extend an invitation to all members of the broader university community to attend the C.B. Macpherson Lecture, "Towards a Black Working Class History of the Long Eighties," this year featuring Prof. Donna Murch. We encourage you to share the attached flyer with your networks.
Prof. Donna Murch is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University, where she served as chapter president of the New Brunswick chapter of the Rutgers American Association of Union Professors (AAUP) and American Federation of Teachers (AFT) from 2020 to 2024. In October 2010, Murch published Living for the City: Migration, Education and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California with the University of North Carolina Press, which won the Phillis Wheatley prize in December 2011. Her newest book, Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives was published by Haymarket Books in March 2022. Professor Murch is currently completing a new trade press book entitled Capitalism Plus Dope: Policing the Crisis and the War on Drugs in Los Angeles. She has written for the Sunday Washington Post, Guardian, New Republic, Nation, Boston Review, Jacobin, Black Scholar, Souls, the Journal of Urban History, Journal of American History, Perspectives and New Politics and appeared on PBS News Hour, BBC, CNN, Democracy Now, and in Stanley Nelson’s documentary, Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution and Sam Pollard’s MLK/FBI.
Event Details:
- Title of Lecture: Towards a Black Working Class History of the Long Eighties
- Guest Speaker: Professor Donna Murch
- Date & Time: September 19, 2024 at 7 PM (doors open at 6:30 PM)
- Location: William Doo Auditorium, 45 Willcocks Street, Toronto
- RSVP: Register via this link or contact Marisa Mikroulis, UTFA Administrative Assistant at 416-978-3351 or faculty@utfa.org. Tickets are available free of charge but must be reserved in advance. Maximum 3 tickets per person
Please RSVP by Friday, September 13, 2024.
There will be a reception with refreshments immediately after the lecture.
Best,
Jeff Bale
UTFA Vice-President, University and External Affairs
Terezia Zorić
UTFA President
