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Origins Keynote Speaker: Cornel West
April 3, 2018, 6:30 PM
Free
Cornel West will deliver the keynote lecture for the 2017-18 Colby College humanities theme, Origins. West is professor of the practice of public philosophy at Harvard University and a frequent guest on the Bill Maher Show, CNN, Democracy Now!, and C-Span. His passion is to communicate to a vast variety of publics in order to keep alive the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. — a legacy of telling the truth and bearing witness to love and justice.
Admission is free, but tickets are required. Tickets will be available to the public Monday, April 2, beginning at 9 a.m. and continuing until 4 p.m. or until tickets are gone. Members of the public can pick up tickets on campus in Pulver Pavilion (in Cotter Union) or reserve them over the phone for pickup April 3 by calling 859-4165. There is a limit of tickets per person.
Organized by the Center for the Arts and Humanities.
Contact: Megan Fossa, megan.fossa@colby.edu, 207-859-4165