{"id":21994,"date":"2022-10-25T14:09:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T18:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/?p=21994"},"modified":"2022-10-25T14:10:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T18:10:36","slug":"provosts-colloquium-series-presents-scottish-genes-african-tapestry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/provosts-colloquium-series-presents-scottish-genes-african-tapestry\/","title":{"rendered":"Provost\u2019s Colloquium Series Presents \u201cScottish Genes, African Tapestry\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>East Stroudsburg University\u2019s Provost\u2019s Colloquium Series, an intellectual experience that promotes dialogue among ESU faculty, staff, students, and community, continues the Fall 2022 semester with a presentation by Artress White, associate professor of English. The presentation, \u201cScottish Genes, African Tapestry: African American Enslavement as Muse and Resistance\u201d, will take place on Wednesday, November 2, at 5:30 p.m. in Beers Lecture Hall. The presentation will also be live streamed on the ESU <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esu.edu\/live-events\/index.cfm\">Live Events webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The history of American enslavement prevails in United States culture. In this latest iteration of the Provost\u2019s Colloquium Series, professor and poet, Dr. Artress White, presents a multi-media performance of her poetry from a work-in-progress, \u201cScottish Genes, African Tapestry,\u201d written as an historical memoir of her family\u2019s documented enslavement in North Carolina. White will delve deeply into the complex history and trauma of chattel slavery and the options for freedom that tempted many under such hostile circumstances. Her work touches on various themes, from female enslavement to African repatriation, and the transhistorical parallels between institutional slavery and contemporary social justice movements.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the Provost\u2019s Colloquium Series, contact Christina McDonald, director, office of sponsored projects and research, at (570) 422-7954 or <a href=\"mailto:cmcdonald9@esu.edu\">cmcdonald9@esu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESU\u2019s Provost\u2019s Colloquium Series, an intellectual experience that promotes dialogue among ESU faculty, staff, students, and community, continues the Fall 2022 semester with a presentation by Artress White, associate professor of English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":21996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[143,42,84,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-news-release","category-ospr-news","category-slider"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21994"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21997,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21994\/revisions\/21997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}