About the Lecture

Topic: Charles Young and the Post-Emancipation Era

Charles Young, born to enslaved parents in Kentucky in 1864, career encapsulates both the early promise of Emancipation and the later betrayal of Reconstruction. He was one of only three black graduates from West Point in the Reconstruction era. Young served for three decades as the highest ranking, and for a long period, was the only black commissioned officer in the U.S. Army. His story encapsulates the promise of emancipation and the failure of the United States to realize it.

About the Speaker 

Guest speaker Dr. David Kilroy, professor of history and Chair of the NSU Department of Humanities and Politics, will discuss his 2003 biography For Race and Country: The Life and Career of Colonel Charles Young.

About the Lecture

Alexander Calder “Mobiles & Stabiles / An International Presence”

• Topic: Alexander Calder, is one of the most acclaimed sculptors of the 20th century; utilized his innovative genius and mechanical engineering background to profoundly change the course of modern art on an international level; is renowned for the invention of the mobile, whose suspended abstract elements move and balance in changing harmony

About the Speaker 

• Armando Droulers is an art historian, educator, lecturer and consultant.  He studied at Bard College, Academia de Arte Federico Brandt, New World School of the Arts and The University of Florida.

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The Ancient and Modern Kingdom of Morocco
September 30, 2021
with Helene Hermans

An Introduction to US Latinx Literature
June 17, 2021
with Yvette Fuentes

Cross Cultural Look at Marriage Part II
April 15, 2021
with Mirella Baker Bemmel

Cross Cultural Look at Marriage
March 18, 2021
with Mirella Baker Bemmel

Caribbean & South African Influence on Music
with Shane LeMar
February 18, 2021

Spanish Dance: Artistic Influences
with Armando Droulers
January 21, 2021