DEBATE: BALDWIN VS. BUCKLEY Sunday Scholars

Sunday, February 16 at 3pm

After the performance on Sunday, February 16, join us for this one-hour panel discussion with experts on the theme of the play, moderated by The Theatre School at DePaul University Dean Martine Kei Green-Rogers and featuring esteemed guest panelists.

BILL JOHNSON GONZÁLEZ is an Associate Professor in the English Department and Director of the Center for Latino Research at DePaul University, and the Editor in Chief of Diálogo, a peer reviewed journal of Latinx and Latin American Studies. His teaching and research interests include multilingualism in Latinx literature, Latinx film, and contemporary queer cultural production. He has published work on multilingualism in the Chicana novel in differences: a feminist journal, and on queer Chicano film in GLQ. He is the co-editor of Passing Lines: Sexuality and Immigration as well as of The Surprise of Otherness: A Barbara Johnson Reader, and is currently completing a translation of Aventuras de un bracero, the only novel known to have been written by a bracero. Alongside Julie Moody-Freeman, he has also co-directed the Social Transformation Research Collaborative at DePaul since 2021.

DR. SYMONE A. JOHNSON is an Assistant Professor of African and Black Diaspora Studies at DePaul University. She earned a Ph.D. and M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Notre Dame and a B.A. in Psychology with a concentration in Comparative Women’s Studies from Spelman College. Dr. Johnson’s areas of research and teaching include African American folklore and expressive culture, the Black anthropological tradition, critical medical anthropology, Black feminist theories, Chicago surrealist group and Afrosurrealist traditions, and urban environment and ecology studies. She critically examines how people’s racialized, classed, and gendered experiences mediate how they navigate different worlds of care. Her public writings can be found in Anthropology News and Environment and Society.

An award-winning historian and professor, KEVIN SCHULTZ teaches at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), serving as the Chair of the Department of History. Schultz’s soon-to-be-released book, Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals): A History, tells the fascinating story of the history of modern liberalism, focusing on how its enemies have denigrated and attacked the liberal image. His previous book, Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship that Shaped the 1960s, was an Amazon #1 New Release in History. His first book, Tri-Faith America: How Postwar Catholics and Jews Held America to Its Protestant Promise charted the decline of the idea that the United States was a “Christian nation” and the subsequent rise of of a modern liberalism premised on “Judeo-Christianity.” He’s the past president of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History and has won numerous teaching awards. He is also the author of HIST (Cengage Learning), a popular college-level textbook, now in its sixth edition. He has appeared on numerous occasions on NPR, C-SPAN, MSNBC, and PBS, and been featured in dozens of publications including The Washington Post, Salon, and The Huffington Post.

Moderator MARTINE KEI GREEN-ROGERS is an esteemed dramaturg and higher education leader who joined The Theatre School at DePaul University as Dean in July 2022. Green-Rogers has served as interim dean of the Division of Liberal Arts at the University of North Carolina School for the Arts. She also is the immediate past president of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas and the current President-Elect of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE). A director and writer, Green-Rogers has held several positions in dramaturgy, literary management, writing, directing and creative storytelling in the professional theatre and entertainment industries. She earned her Ph.D. degree from the Department of Theatre and Drama at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

This Sunday Scholars discussion will last approximately one hour and is FREE and open to the public. If you would like to attend but are not attending the show that day, please arrive by 3pm and you can enter the theatre once the performance concludes. Questions? Call the Box Office at 773.281.8463 x6.

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