BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250902T120039EDT-5905BFTxxW@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250902T160039Z DESCRIPTION:\n 2025 Beatty Lecture with Isabel Wilkerson\n Thursday\, October 23 at 6 p.m.\n Tanna Schulich Hall\, Elizabeth Wirth Music Building \n Tick ets on sale September 9 at the Beatty Lecture website \n $5 student | $10 r egular\n \n Isabel Wilkerson\, Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents will deliver the 2025 Beatty Lecture at ñ on October 23\, duri ng the University’s annual Homecoming festivities. Nahlah Ayed\, host of C BC national radio program\, Ideas\, will moderate the event.  \n  \n Widely acclaimed as one of most powerful storytellers of our time\, Wilkerson’s l andmark nonfiction works have transformed public understanding of the hist orical roots and enduring impact of structural inequality in the United St ates and globally.  President Barack Obama awarded Wilkerson the National Humanities Medal in 2016\, praising her for 'championing the stories of an unsung history.' \n  \n\n\n “Isabel Wilkerson is a voice the world needs to hear\, especially now\,” said Dominique Bérubé\, Vice-President\, Researc h and Innovation. “Her work challenges us to confront injustice and histor ical silence with honesty\, courage\, and empathy. She personifies the Bea tty Lecture’s mission to change the world through dialogue and the exchang e of ideas. ñ is honoured that she will deliver the 71st Beatty Lectu re.” \n\n\n\n “Championing the stories of an unsung history'  \n\n\n\n Born in Washington\, D.C.\, Wilkerson studied journalism at Howard University a nd then worked at the Detroit Free Press. A year later\, she joined The Ne w York Times and in 1991 was appointed the paper’s Chicago Bureau Chief. I n 1994\, at 33\, she made history as the first Black woman in American jou rnalism to win a Pulitzer Prize and the first Black journalist to win for individual reporting. She was recognized for her powerful profile of a you ng boy from Chicago's South Side and reporting on the Midwestern flood of 1993.   \n\n\n\n Wilkerson then embarked on a fifteen-year journey research ing and writing what would become her landmark first book\, The Warmth of Other Suns\, published in 2010. Based on interviews with over 1\,200 peopl e\, the book chronicles the Great Migration\, when more than six million B lack Americans left the South from 1910 to the 1970s to move to cities in the Northeast\, Midwest\, and West in search of greater freedom and escape from racial violence. Wilkerson has called the migration of Black America ns one of the greatest underreported stories of the 20th century. \n\n\n\n The Warmth of Other Suns received widespread acclaim\, appearing on over 3 0 Best of the Year lists and winning the National Book Critics Circle Awar d for Nonfiction. In 2024\, The New York Times ranked it second on its lis t of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century—and first among nonfiction tit les. \n\n\n\n A powerful lens on social hierarchy  \n  \n Wilkerson’s second book\, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents\, published in 2020\, brings to light the often unacknowledged race-based caste system—similar to those systems established in Nazi Germany and India—that has shaped and divided American society\, what she describes as an inherited\, arbitrary\, and a rtificial ranking of human value that serves to limit opportunity. Wilkers on believes that dismantling caste is possible through radical empathy roo ted in our shared humanity\, describing the act of writing Caste as “an ac t of optimism and an act of hope.” \n\n\n\n Released just months before the 2020 U.S. election\, Caste topped The New York Times bestseller list and stayed there for 58 weeks in hardcover and months longer in paperback. Tim e Magazine named Caste its Nonfiction Book of the Year\, calling it an “im mediate classic”. Caste was the most borrowed nonfiction title in U.S libr aries in 2021 and remains among the top-circulating books in the nation. I n 2023\, director Ava DuVernay adapted the book into the feature film Orig in.  \n\n\n\n Wilkerson is the recipient of additional awards including the George S. Polk Award for Regional Reporting\, Journalist of the Year Awar d from the National Association of Black Journalists\, NAACP Image Award f or Outstanding Literary Work\, Guggenheim Fellowship\, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award\, Heartland Prize for Nonfiction\, Lynton History Prize\, Stephen A mbrose Oral History Prize\, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Curre nt Interest. \n\n\n\n She has been the James M. Cox Professor of Journalism at Emory University\, Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton Univers ity\, Kreeger-Wolf endowed lecturer at Northwestern University\, and Profe ssor of Journalism and Director of Narrative Nonfiction at Boston Universi ty's College of Communication.  \n\n\n\n About the Beatty Lecture \n\n\n\n E stablished in 1954\, the Beatty Lecture is one of Canada’s longest running and most prestigious public lecture series. Hosted by the Office of the V ice-President (Research and Innovation)\, the series brings influential th inkers from around the world to speak about timely and transformative idea s. \n\n\n\n The 2025 Beatty Lecture will be emceed by CBC Ideas host Nahlah Ayed. A celebrated journalist and veteran foreign correspondent\, Ayed re turns for her fifth year moderating the event. \n\n\n\n The 2025 Beatty Lec ture will be held on Thursday\, October 23 at 6 p.m. at Tanna Schulich Hal l in the Elizabeth Wirth Music Building on ñ’s downtown campus. Media are invited to contact the Beatty organizing committee with requests. \n \n DTSTART:20251023T220000Z DTEND:20251023T230000Z LOCATION:Elizabeth Wirth Music Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1E3\, 52 7 rue Sherbrooke Ouest SUMMARY:2025 Beatty Lecture with Isabel Wilkerson URL:/research/channels/event/2025-beatty-lecture-isabe l-wilkerson-366837 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR