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DESCRIPTION:The Department of English is thrilled to welcome Harvard Profes
 sor Robin Bernstein for the 2026 Spector Lecture 'Fugitive Sentimentalism:
  The Forgotten Genius of H. E. Lewis\, Negro Mesmerist'.\n\nThe annual Spe
 ctor Lecture is the most prestigious scholarly lecture hosted by the Depar
 tment of English.\n\n29 January 2026\, 6 p.m.\n	Redpath Museum Auditorium\n
 	51łÔąĎÍř\n\nRobin Bernstein is a cultural historian who focuses o
 n race and performance\, mainly in the US\, from the nineteenth century to
  the present. She is the author of Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Sh
 ook America’s Original Prison for Profit\, which she wrote with support fr
 om the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Radcliffe Institute f
 or Advanced Study. Freeman’s Challenge won the Montaigne Medal and the PRO
 SE Award for North American/US History\; it also received the Nonfiction H
 onor for the Massachusetts Book Award. Bernstein’s previous book\, Racial 
 Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights\, wo
 n five awards and was runner-up for two more. In 2021\, she co-won the Wil
 liam Riley Parker Prize\, given for the year’s outstanding article in PMLA
 . Her public-facing work has appeared in the New York Times\, the Zinn Edu
 cation Project\, the Chronicle of Higher Education\, Inquest\, and Teen Vo
 gue. Bernstein teaches at Harvard University\, where she is the Dillon Pro
 fessor of American History and Professor of African and African American S
 tudies and Studies of Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality. robinbernsteinphd.co
 m\; @robinmbernstein\n\nBernstein's talk will be followed by a Q&A. This e
 vent is free and in person. Everyone is welcome.\n\nThe room has limited c
 apacity. Please reserve your seat.\n\nReserve Your Seat!\n\nFor questions\
 , please contact Camille Owens at camille.owens [at] mcgill.ca.\n
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LOCATION:Auditorium\, Redpath Museum\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0C4\, 859 r
 ue Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:2026 Spector Lecture - Robin Bernstein
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