Dr. Suraj Milind Yengde
Du Bois & Ambedkar: Their Meanings of Democracy and Freedom

FREE, General Admission

Dr. Suraj Yengde is one of India’s leading scholars and public intellectuals, and a current Hutchins Center W.E.B. Du Bois Scholar at Harvard University. Dr. Yengde, author of the book, “Caste Matters,” is a prolific writer and scholar whose work focuses on developing critical theory of Dalit and Black Studies. He most recently appears in the motion picture, Origin. Dr. Yengde will speak about W.E.B. Du Bois and Indian social justice advocate B. R. Ambedkar in a talk entitled “Du Bois and Ambedkar: Their Meanings of Democracy and Freedom.”

Co-presented by Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Town of Great Barrington, BRIDGE, and Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center