Professor Robert Hill Lecture - "The Remains of the Name: The Origin of the Harlem Renaissance in the Discourse of Egyptology"

Professor Robert Hill
IRAAS - Visiting Scholar in Residence
September 15 - 26, 2008

Public Lecture:
"The Remains of the Name: The Origin of the Harlem Renaissance in the Discourse of Egyptology"
Monday Septermber 15, 2008
6:00PM
301 Philosophy Hall

"Robert A. Hill has been a professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles,
since 1977, before which he taught at Dartmouth College and Northwestern University.
He moved to America from Jamaica in 1971 and was a senior fellow at the Institute of the
Black World in Atlanta. He is the editor-in-chief of The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers (1983–), ten volumes of which have been published thus far by the University of California Press. He served as executive consultant to the making of the PBS-WGBH documentary film Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind for the American Experience series in 2001. He is also the editor of numerous historical editions, among them Marcus Garvey’s Black Man, Cyril Briggs’s Crusader, The FBI’s RACON, and George S. Schuyler’s Black Empire and Ethiopian Stories. In addition, he is the literary executor of the C. L. R. James Estate. In October 1992 he was awarded the Gold Musgrave Medal of the Institute of Jamaica for Distinguished Contribution to history."