Toni Morrison: Celebrating The 70th Anniversary of her Cornell Degree (MA 1955), 18 September | Event in Ithaca

Toni Morrison: Celebrating The 70th Anniversary of her Cornell Degree (MA 1955)

A. D. White Professors-at-Large at Cornell

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Thu, 18 Sep, 2025 at 09:00 am

Cornell University

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Thu, 18 Sep, 2025 at 09:00 am - Sun, 21 Sep, 2025 at 05:00 pm (EDT)

Cornell University

Ithaca, New York, United States

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Toni Morrison: Celebrating The 70th Anniversary of her Cornell Degree (MA 1955)
Toni Morrison: Literature and Public Life
Celebrating The 70th Anniversary of her Cornell Degree (MA 1955)

Cornell University’s Toni Morrison Collective in collaboration with the Toni Morrison Society invites the public to a symposium celebrating the 70th anniversary of her Cornell Degree (MA 1955).

Among the international, distinguished, and emerging scholars and writers, presenters include:
Tayari Jones (Emory University; A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell)
Louis Massiah ’77 (A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell)
NoViolet Bulawayo
Farah Jasmine Griffin
Ishion Hutchinson
Claudine Raynaud
Carolyn Rouse
Autumn Womack
Kevin Young
Various high school artists

Registration required (no fee) by Sept. 1, 2025
Inquiries: dG9uaW1vcnJpc29uY29sbCB8IGNvcm5lbGwgISBlZHU=

Toni Morrison ’55 served as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large from 1997-2003.
Tayari Jones participation in the symposium is part of an A.D. White Professors-at-Large mini-visit, Sept. 18-20, 2025.
Louis Massiah ’77 will visit Cornell as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large in spring 2026, April 6-10.


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Toni Morrison: Celebrating The 70th Anniversary of her Cornell Degree (MA 1955), 18 September | Event in Ithaca
Toni Morrison: Celebrating The 70th Anniversary of her Cornell Degree (MA 1955)
Thu, 18 Sep, 2025 at 09:00 am