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
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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.