Scaler Lecture Series | Dr. Cornel West

Scaler Lecture Series | Dr. Cornel West
Democracy Matters
Tuesday, August 16, 2016 | 7:30pm

In his Democracy Matters presentation, Dr. Cornel West will impart a message of love, equality, and justice with a focus on the American democratic experiment and with reference to a broader, global humanitarian context. Through the lens of the African American freedom fighting tradition, Dr. West will expound on topics such as the 2016 political climate, Socratic self-examination, police brutality, social activism and more

Cornel West is a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual. He is a Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice at Union Theological Seminary and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He has also taught at Yale, Harvard, and the University of Paris. Cornel West graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in three years and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at Princeton.

He has written 20 books and has edited 13. He is best known for his classics, Race Matters and Democracy Matters, and for his memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. His most recent book, Black Prophetic Fire, offers an unflinching look at nineteenth and twentieth-century African American leaders and their visionary legacies.

Dr. West is a frequent guest on the Bill Maher Show, CNN, C-Span and Democracy Now. He made his film debut in the Matrix – and was the commentator (with Ken Wilbur) on the official trilogy released in 2004. He also has appeared in over 25 documentaries and films including Examined Life, Call & Response, Sidewalk and Stand.

He has produced three spoken word albums including Never Forget, collaborating with Prince, Jill Scott, Andre 3000, Talib Kweli, KRS-One and the late Gerald Levert. His spoken word interludes are featured on productions by Terence Blanchard, The Cornel West Theory, Raheem DeVaughn, and Bootsy Collins.

In short, Cornel West has a passion to communicate to a vast variety of publics in order to keep alive the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. – a legacy of telling the truth and bearing witness to love and justice.

Additional Information

Price: Admission is free, but reservation is required. Click here to make a free reservation for Dr. Cornel West’s lecture.

Location: The Watermill Center, 39 Water Mill Towd Road, Water Mill, NY 11976

Contact Information: 631.726.4628 | events@watermillcenter.org

The lecture series is curated by Robert Wilson and administered & co-curated Kate Eberstadt, Founder of The Hutto Project and a former International Summer Program participant. Our summer lecture series is made possible by the generous support of the Scaler Foundation.