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DESCRIPTION:This event is now at capacity. There will be a stand-by line in
  front of Tresidder Oak Lounge before the event begins\, and we welcome ind
 ividuals to wait there starting at 6 pm in case there ends up being room in
  the audience. We also invite you to fill out this form to learn more about
  Hanif's public events in winter and spring quarters. \n\nStanford Public H
 umanities' flagship speaker series\, What Is a Public Intellectual Today\, 
 will feature an interview on craft and career with the 2025-26 Denning Visi
 ting Artist Hanif Abdurraqib\, hosted by Public Humanities and the Creative
  Writing Program. Book selling/signing to follow. \n\nHanif Abdurraqib is a
 n award-winning poet\, essayist\, and cultural critic from Columbus\, Ohio.
  His newest release\, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
  (Random House\, 2024) was a New York Times Bestseller and longlisted for t
 he National Book Award in nonfiction and the winner of the National Book Cr
 itics Circle Award for Criticism. His previous book\, A Little Devil In Ame
 rica (Random House\, 2021) was a winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal and th
 e Gordon Burn Prize. In 2021\, Abdurraqib was named a MacArthur Fellow\, an
 d in 2024 was named a Windham-Campbell Prize recipient. He is a graduate of
  Beechcroft High School.\n\nAbdurraqib will be joined in conversation by Ma
 tthew D. Morrison\, an acclaimed musicologist and Associate Professor in St
 anford's Department of African and African American Studies. His work has b
 een published in the Journal of the American Musicological Society\, Women 
 and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory\, American Music and the Grov
 e Dictionary of American Music. His book Blacksound: Making Race in Popular
  Music in the United States (University of California Press\, 2024) was awa
 rded the Prose award for excellence in the Humanities by the Association of
  American Publishers\, recognized by Rolling Stone as one of the "Best Book
 s in Music of 2024\," and named a finalist for the Museum of African Americ
 an History Stone Book Award (2024).\n\nStanford Public Humanities and the C
 reative Writing Program are tremendously grateful to the co-sponsors for th
 is event: the Departments of English\, Communication\, African and African 
 American Studies\, and Music\; the Institute for Diversity in the Arts\; th
 e Institute for Advancing Just Societies\; the Journalism Program\; the Pro
 gram in Modern Thought and Literature\; the Center for Comparative Studies 
 in Race and Ethnicity\; the Markaz Resource Center\; and the Black Communit
 y Service Center.
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LOCATION:Tresidder Union\, Oak Lounge
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SUMMARY:What is a Public Intellectual Today: Hanif Abdurraqib
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