BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5082-054b1253a43445c788430232151a9ebe@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260421T062740Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210330T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210330T143000 SUMMARY:Book Proposal Workshop with Dr. Jasmine Cobb DESCRIPTION:\nDr. Cobb will present a workshop discussion on creating an d submitting a book proposal for the ARC postdoc scholars and other Penn State postdoc scholars that wish to attend.\n\nJasmine Cobb is the Bacc a Foundation Associate Professor of African &\; African American Stud ies and of Art\, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Picture Freedom: Remaking Black Visuality in the Early Nineteenth Century (NYUP 2015) and New Growth: The Art and Texture of Bl ack Hair After Emancipation (forthcoming). She has written essays for ME LUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States\, American Literary Hi story and Public Culture and she is the editor for African American Lite rature in Transition\, Vol. 2 (Cambridge\, forthcoming).\n\nA scholar of African American cultural production and visual representation\, Cobb i s involved in two additional projects that examine the cultural aftermat h of slavery. Her third monograph\, The Pictorial Life of Harriet Tubman \, offers a visual history of the abolitionist\, from the middle ninetee nth century through the present\, including the persistence of the aboli tionist&rsquo\;s image in contemporary art and popular culture. Cobb is also a co-director of the &ldquo\;From Slavery to Freedom&rdquo\; (FS2F) Franklin Humanities Lab at Duke University. This project explores the l ife and afterlives of slavery and emancipation through experimental mode s of inquiry.\n\nCobb earned a PhD from the Annenberg School for Communi cation at University of Pennsylvania\, as well as a graduate certificate in Africana Studies. Prior to her appointment at Duke\, Cobb spent one year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Africana Research Center\, Pennsylv ania State University and four years on the faculty at Northwestern Univ ersity. She is a recipient of the American Fellowship from the American Association of University Women (AAUW).\n\nPlease register in advance fo r this event: \;https://bit.ly/38dS0VX \;\n\nFor more details: h ttps://events.la.psu.edu/event/book_proposal_workshop_with_dr_jasmine_co bb/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Dr. Cobb will p resent a workshop discussion on creating and submitting a book proposal for the ARC postdoc scholars and other Penn State postdoc scholars that wish to attend.

Jasmine Cobb is the Bacca Foundation Associat e Professor of African & African American Studies and of Art, Art Hi story and Visual Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Pictur e Freedom: Remaking Black Visuality in the Early Nineteenth Century (NYU P 2015) and New Growth: The Art and Texture of Black Hair After Emancipa tion (forthcoming). She has written essays for MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Liter ature of the United States, American Literary History and Public Culture and she is the editor for African American Literature in Transition, Vo l. 2 (Cambridge, forthcoming).

A scholar of African American cultural production and visual representation, Cobb is involved in two a dditional projects that examine the cultural aftermath of slavery. Her t hird monograph, The Pictorial Life of Harriet Tubman, offers a visual hi story of the abolitionist, from the middle nineteenth century through th e present, including the persistence of the abolitionist’s image i n contemporary art and popular culture. Cobb is also a co-director of th e “From Slavery to Freedom” (FS2F) Franklin Humanities Lab a t Duke University. This project explores the life and afterlives of slav ery and emancipation through experimental modes of inquiry.

C obb earned a PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication at Universi ty of Pennsylvania, as well as a graduate certificate in Africana Studie s. Prior to her appointment at Duke, Cobb spent one year as a postdoctor al fellow at the Africana Research Center, Pennsylvania State University and four years on the faculty at Northwestern University. She is a reci pient of the American Fellowship from the American Association of Univer sity Women (AAUW).

Please register in advance for this event:  ;https://bit.ly/38dS0VX 

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/book_p roposal_workshop_with_dr_jasmine_cobb/

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