The Fall 2019 CSP Lecture Series continues as we welcome award-winning author Laila Lalami, who will speak on "Who Gets to Be American? Race and Identity in Fiction and in Life."
Professor Lalami has published four books, including The Moor’s Account, which won the American Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, and The Other Americans, which was a Los Angeles Times bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. Her essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, Harper’s, the Guardian, the Washington Post, and the New York Times Magazine. The recipient of a British Council Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, she is currently a professor of creative writing at UC Riverside.
The CORE program hosts several distinguished speakers from outside the Occidental community, deliberately chosen to represent different fields and perspectives. The CSP annual theme for 2019 is the four cornerstones of Oxy's mission.
Attendance is mandatory for first-year students. The lecture is open to all community members.
(Author Nafissa Thompson-Spires, who was originally scheduled to speak, had to cancel because of illness.)
