[Pols-announce] FW: 2019 Tuttle Lecture

Mon Sep 23 15:37:34 CDT 2019

FYI, please excuse duplication

From: Lampton, Ryan <rlampton at ku.edu>
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2019 3:26 PM
Subject: 2019 Tuttle Lecture

Please plan to attend this year's Bill Tuttle Distinguished Lecture in American Studies.

October 24, 4:00 pm
Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union
Reception following

BlacKkKlansman and the Resurgence of Hate
KU Professor of Film and Media Studies, Kevin Willmott

Professor Wilmott is a member of the KU faculty where he teaches in the Department of Film and Media Studies. In 2018 he was awarded both the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award for best Adapted Screenplay for his co-writing of Black KKKlansman. The film also took the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival.  Professor Wilmott has written, directed or acted in more than twelve films.  His work includes Jayhawkers, which tells the story of Wilt Chamberlain and the 1956 KU men's basketball team; C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America; ChiRaq, co-written with Spike Lee and The Only Good Indian, for which he won the Best Director Award at the American Indian Film Festival.  He is at work on two new projects. I, Too, Sing America: Langston Hughes Unfurled, with a group of KU faculty about the life and work of one-time Lawrence resident Langston Hughes and The 24th about the 1917 Houston riot. Originally from Junction City, Kansas, Kevin Wilmott earned his B.A. at Marymount College.  Before pursuing an MFA at NYU, Tisch School of the Arts he worked to desegregate institutions in Kansas and organized two Catholic Worker shelters.

Ryan Lampton
Student Office Assistant
KU Department of American Studies
213 Bailey Hall
rlampton at ku.edu<mailto:rlampton at ku.edu>
(785)-864-4011

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