{"id":4643,"date":"2021-03-14T03:05:28","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T03:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=4643"},"modified":"2021-03-14T03:05:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T03:05:28","slug":"dr-adom-getachew-to-give-2021-j-harvey-young-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2021\/03\/14\/dr-adom-getachew-to-give-2021-j-harvey-young-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Adom Getachew to Present at 2021 J. Harvey Young Seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year&#8217;s presenter at the Emory History Department&#8217;s J. Harvey Young seminar will be Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/political-science.uchicago.edu\/directory\/adom-getachew\">Adom Getachew<\/a>, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago. The annual seminar features a dynamic scholar whose work engages with important questions that resonate across geographic and chronological areas of specialization. Getachew will deliver a paper entitled, &#8220;&#8216;A Common Spectacle&#8217; of the Race &#8211; Garveyism and the Visual Politics of Founding.&#8221; The Young seminar will take place on Friday, April 16, from 2-4pm via Zoom. Getachew&#8217;s research centers on the history of political thought, theories of race and empire, and postcolonial political theory in Africa and the Caribbean. Princeton University Press published her first book,\u00a0<em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/books\/hardcover\/9780691179155\/worldmaking-after-empire\" target=\"_blank\">Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination<\/a><\/em>, in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#39;m incredibly excited that this year&#39;s J. Harvey Young speaker at Emory&#39;s Department of History will be Adom Getachew (@AdomGetachew), who will be speaking to us about her current work on Garveyism! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EmoryHistory?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@EmoryHistory<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EmoryUniversity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@EmoryUniversity<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/twitterstorians?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#twitterstorians<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dSnXBhFYop\">pic.twitter.com\/dSnXBhFYop<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Tehila Sasson (@TehilaSasson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TehilaSasson\/status\/1370396092500750342?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s presenter at the Emory History Department&#8217;s J. Harvey Young seminar will be Dr. Adom Getachew, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago. The annual seminar features a dynamic scholar whose work engages with important questions that resonate across geographic and chronological areas of specialization. Getachew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}