#  Namwali Serpell, 'The Furrows: An Elegy' 

 



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 **September 15, 2021** 

 12:00PM - 12:00PM EDT 

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 **Virtual Colloquium**  



 

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 **Namwali Serpell**, Professor, English, Harvard University

 Introduction by **Neel Mukherjee**, Harvard University

 A reading from Serpell’s forthcoming novel. which tries to conjure the uncanny, ongoing experience of mourning and the longing for reunion that makes us seek those whom we've lost in others.

 Part of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Colloquium Series

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