Lecture by internationally renowned scholar Deirdre Cooper Owens

FREE admission.

This event will take place in person and on Zoom. Proof of COVID-19 vaccination or negative COVID-19 test + face coverings are required for in-person attendance. Read more about our COVID Safety Policy at bemiscenter.org/visit.

Join us to engage with Lincoln, NE-based, internationally renowned scholar Deirdre Cooper Owens’s critical consideration of a salient contradiction at the heart of the institution and practice of slavery: the production of disability. Cooper Owens will explore the relationship between hospitality’s double edge and the ideological construction of Black bodies, their value, and Black life. Following Cooper Owens’s presentation, Jennifer Harbour will offer a response and launch the conversation.