Looking For Langston: A Film Screening Celebrating Queer Harlem

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Isaac Julien

Filmmaker and installation artist; Distinguished Professor at University of California, Santa Cruz

Jack Halberstam

Director of the Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality; Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

Monica L. Miller

Professor of English and Africana Studies; Dean of Faculty Diversity and Development, Barnard College and Columbia University

John T. Reddick

Architectural historian; A'lelia Bundles Community Scholar; member of Harlem Cultural Collaborative

Ellie M. Hisama

Professor of Music, Music Theory and Historical Musicology; Executive Committee, Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Columbia University

Isaac Jean-François

Columbia College '20; Ph.D. student in the departments of African-American and American Studies, Yale University

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The Forum
Columbia University
New York, NY

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About This Event

As part of Columbia’s contributions to the 2020 celebration of the centennial of the Harlem Renaissance, The Forum will be hosting an online screening of Isaac Julien’s landmark 1989 film Looking for Langston followed by a discussion with the director and a roundtable of commentators. This event recognizes the significance of the thirtieth anniversary of Looking for Langston in black studies, queer studies, and cultural studies, and will explore Julien’s gorgeous meditation on black art, poetry, music, community, and intimacy.

This free public event, which will be entirely online, joins the program for Harlem Renaissance 100, bringing to celebration a signal film and lively discussion that focuses on queer Harlem. Isaac Julien, filmmaker and installation artist, is Distinguished Professor at University of California, Santa Cruz. His work has been exhibited worldwide, and he was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to the Arts in 2017.