2015 Gantt Symposium featuring Dr. Cornel West

Overview

Cornel West | Prominent Professor and Philosopher

Activism — exercised through art and culture — is the yearlong programming theme of the Harvey B. Gantt Center. Fittingly, the 2015 Gantt Symposium will feature Dr. Cornel West, an expert voice on freedom fighting traditions and torchbearer of “MLK’s legacy of telling the truth and bearing witness to love and justice.”

Dr. West is a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual and is Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice at Union Theological Seminary and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. West graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in three years and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at Princeton. He has taught at Yale, Harvard and the University of Paris and has written over 20 books.  Best known for his classics, Race Matters and Democracy Matters, and for his memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, his most recent releases, Black Prophetic Fire and Radical King, were also received with critical acclaim.

An annual event hosted by the Gantt Center and its namesake, former Charlotte Mayor Harvey Gantt, the Symposium engages citizens in important and timely conversations aimed at building a better Charlotte. Following Dr. West’s presentation will be a Q&A session moderated by Mr. Gantt.