The New York Review of Books presents a series of online talks hosted by our Advising Editor Fintan O’Toole. For our second fall event, New York Review contributors Keeanga-Yahmatta Taylor and Patricia J. Williams join O’Toole for a wide-ranging conversation on political violence in America.
The conversation will last approximately ninety minutes, including a question-and-answer period.
Keeanga-Yahmatta Taylor is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation and How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective.
Patricia J. Williams is the James L. Dohr Professor of Law Emerita at Columbia Law School and University Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities at Northeastern University. She is a pioneer of the law and literature movement and a scholar of feminism and race in American jurisprudence. For two decades, she wrote the “Diary of a Mad Law Professor” column for The Nation Magazine. She is a MacArthur Fellowship recipient, the 1997 Reith Lecturer for the BBC, and an elected member of the American Philosophical Society. Her most recent book is The Miracle of the Black Leg: Notes on Race, Human Bodies and The Spirit of the Law.
About this series
The New York Review of Books is pleased to announce a series of virtual events on the most pressing issues emerging from the second Trump administration. In each conversation The New York Review’s Advising Editor Fintan O’Toole will talk with a group of contributors and esteemed guests about critical subjects, including immigration, political violence, the rule of law, and the state of the left. Each event, held on Zoom, will last about ninety minutes and include an audience Q&A session. All events are pay-what-you-wish (with a suggested fee of $10) and open to the public.
