Southeastern's History and Political Science Department hosts Black History Month Lecture Series
Thursday, February 13, 2020
by: Tonya Lowentritt
HAMMOND – The Department of History and Political Science at Southeastern Louisiana
University will host its annual lecture series in honor of Black History Month.
This series will feature three lectures that are all free and open to the public.
The first lecture, “Creole Culture and Civil Rights: The New Orleans Connection,”
by Tim Chauvin, is scheduled Monday, Feb. 17, at 2 p.m. in the Student Union Theatre.
“Chauvin will discuss the important role New Orleans’ unique creole culture of
music and food helped play in American’s Civil Rights Movement,” said Department Head
of History and Political Science Bill Robison.
“From Congo Square to Dooky Chase’s restaurant, New Orleans provides a fascinating
window into how music and food helped bring people together,” he said.
The next lecture given by Zachary Isenhower and titled, “The Haitian Revolution
and the Challenge of Decolonization,” is scheduled Wednesday, Feb. 19, at 11 a.m.
in the Student Union Theatre.
“Zachary Isenhower will compare the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804 with the
American and French Revolutions and challenge the conventional wisdom that it was
characterized throughout by unthinking violence, was the least successful revolution
of the era, and produced a failed state,” said Robison.
“Frantz Fanon: An Introduction to a Black Militant Philosopher,” the last lecture
of the series, is scheduled Monday, March 2, at 12:30 p.m. in the Student Union Theatre.
It will be given by Peter Gratton.
“Peter Gratton will discuss Fanon’s ‘Black Skin/White Masks’ and ‘Wretched of
the Earth’ showing him to be a forerunner of critical race theory, an uneasy defender
of violence, and prescient about how the uses of violence could lead to the kinds
of government found across Africa after the colonial period ended,” said Robison.
For additional information about Southeastern’s Black History Month lecture series,
contact Robison at 985-549-2109 or wrobison@southeastern.edu.
