Diversity

25th Annual
President and Provost's
Diversity Lecture & Cultural Arts Series

Acting President Peter Mohler and Provost Melissa L. Gilliam invite you to attend the twenty-fifth annual Diversity Lecture & Cultural Arts Series at The Ohio State University. This program offers the campus and the Columbus community opportunities to benefit from some of the most eminent scholars, artists, and professionals who discuss and exemplify inclusive excellence through diversity. (In an effort to protect the health and safety of the campus and community, and to reach as many people as possible, this event is being offered virtually.)

FEATURING
Claudia Rankine
New York Times Bestselling Poet
MacAurthur Genuis Award Recipient
Author of Just Us (2020) and Citizen (2014)
National Book Critic Circle Award Winner
Professor for Creative Writing Program, New York University

Thursday
November 6, 2023
5:00 p.m. EST

LIVE via ZOOM
[Zoom opens at 4:55 p.m. EST]

Free and open to the public.
RSVP is required.

ONLINE REGISTRATION open until Friday, November 3th @ noon EST at:
go.osu.edu/rankine

ABOUT CLAUDIA RANKINE:
Claudia Rankine is the author of five books of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric; three plays including HELP, which premiered in March 2020 (The Shed, NYC), and The White Card, which premiered in February 2018 (ArtsEmerson/ American Repertory Theater) and was published by Graywolf Press in 2019; as well as numerous video collaborations. Her recent collection of essays, Just Us: An American Conversation, was published by Graywolf Press in 2020. She is also the co-editor of several anthologies including The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind. In 2016, Rankine co-founded The Racial Imaginary Institute (TRII). Among her numerous awards and honors, Rankine is the recipient of the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, the Poets & Writers' Jackson Poetry Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, United States Artists, and the National Endowment of the Arts. A former Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Claudia Rankine joined the NYU Creative Writing Program in Fall 2021. She lives in New York.

To register for this virtual event and learn more about Claudia Rankine visit: www.go.osu.edu/rankine

Please note captioning is available for this event.
For more information contact:
Jackie Lipscomb
Director
Career Readiness Initiatives & Special Programming
Office of Diversity and Inclusion
Lipscomb.3@osu.edu