BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250907T212820EDT-4672ejN5cx@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250908T012820Z DESCRIPTION:\n 2025 Beatty Lecture with Isabel Wilkerson\n Followed by a book signing\n Thursday\, October 23 at 6 p.m.\n Tanna Schulich Hall\, Elizabeth Wirth Music Building \n Tickets on sale September 9 at the Beatty Lecture website \n $5 student | $10 regular\n \n Isabel Wilkerson\, Pulitzer Prize wi nner and bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste: The Ori gins of Our Discontents will deliver the 2025 Beatty Lecture at 51ԹUni versity on October 23\, during the University’s annual Homecoming festivit ies. Nahlah Ayed\, host of CBC national radio program\, Ideas\, will moder ate the event.  \n  \n Widely acclaimed as one of most powerful storytellers of our time\, Wilkerson’s landmark nonfiction works have transformed publ ic understanding of the historical roots and enduring impact of structural inequality in the United States and globally.  President Barack Obama awa rded Wilkerson the National Humanities Medal in 2016\, praising her for 'c hampioning the stories of an unsung history.' \n  \n\n\n “Isabel Wilkerson i s a voice the world needs to hear\, especially now\,” said Dominique Bérub é\, Vice-President\, Research and Innovation. “Her work challenges us to c onfront injustice and historical silence with honesty\, courage\, and empa thy. She personifies the Beatty Lecture’s mission to change the world thro ugh dialogue and the exchange of ideas. 51Թis honoured that she will d eliver the 71st Beatty Lecture.” \n\n\n\n “Championing the stories of an un sung history'  \n\n\n\n Born in Washington\, D.C.\, Wilkerson studied journ alism at Howard University and then worked at the Detroit Free Press. A ye ar later\, she joined The New York Times and in 1991 was appointed the pap er’s Chicago Bureau Chief. In 1994\, at 33\, she made history as the first Black woman in American journalism to win a Pulitzer Prize and the first Black journalist to win for individual reporting. She was recognized for h er powerful profile of a young boy from Chicago's South Side and reporting on the Midwestern flood of 1993.   \n\n\n\n Wilkerson then embarked on a f ifteen-year journey researching and writing what would become her landmark first book\, The Warmth of Other Suns\, published in 2010. Based on inter views with over 1\,200 people\, the book chronicles the Great Migration\, when more than six million Black Americans left the South from 1910 to the 1970s to move to cities in the Northeast\, Midwest\, and West in search o f greater freedom and escape from racial violence. Wilkerson has called th e migration of Black Americans one of the greatest underreported stories o f the 20th century. \n\n\n\n The Warmth of Other Suns received widespread a cclaim\, appearing on over 30 Best of the Year lists and winning the Natio nal Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. In 2024\, The New York Times ranked it second on its list of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century—an d first among nonfiction titles. \n\n\n\n A powerful lens on social hierarc hy  \n  \n Wilkerson’s second book\, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents\, published in 2020\, brings to light the often unacknowledged race-based c aste system—similar to those systems established in Nazi Germany and India —that has shaped and divided American society\, what she describes as an i nherited\, arbitrary\, and artificial ranking of human value that serves t o limit opportunity. Wilkerson believes that dismantling caste is possible through radical empathy rooted in our shared humanity\, describing the ac t of writing Caste as “an act of optimism and an act of hope.” \n\n\n\n Rel eased just months before the 2020 U.S. election\, Caste topped The New Yor k Times bestseller list and stayed there for 58 weeks in hardcover and mon ths longer in paperback. Time Magazine named Caste its Nonfiction Book of the Year\, calling it an “immediate classic”. Caste was the most borrowed nonfiction title in U.S libraries in 2021 and remains among the top-circul ating books in the nation. In 2023\, director Ava DuVernay adapted the boo k into the feature film Origin.  \n\n\n\n Wilkerson is the recipient of add itional awards including the George S. Polk Award for Regional Reporting\, Journalist of the Year Award from the National Association of Black Journ alists\, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work\, Guggenheim Fell owship\, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award\, Heartland Prize for Nonfiction\, Lynt on History Prize\, Stephen Ambrose Oral History Prize\, and the Los Angele s Times Book Prize for Current Interest. \n\n\n\n She has been the James M. Cox Professor of Journalism at Emory University\, Ferris Professor of Jou rnalism at Princeton University\, Kreeger-Wolf endowed lecturer at Northwe stern University\, and Professor of Journalism and Director of Narrative N onfiction at Boston University's College of Communication.  \n\n\n\n About the Beatty Lecture \n\n\n\n Established in 1954\, the Beatty Lecture is one of Canada’s longest running and most prestigious public lecture series. H osted by the Office of the Vice-President (Research and Innovation)\, the series brings influential thinkers from around the world to speak about ti mely and transformative ideas. \n\n\n\n The 2025 Beatty Lecture will be emc eed by CBC Ideas host Nahlah Ayed. A celebrated journalist and veteran for eign correspondent\, Ayed returns for her fifth year moderating the event.  \n\n\n\n The 2025 Beatty Lecture will be held on Thursday\, October 23 at 6 p.m. at Tanna Schulich Hall in the Elizabeth Wirth Music Building on McG ill’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:/drs/channels/event/2025-beatty-lecture-isabel-wil kerson-366837 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR