Dr. Brian Johnson,
Associate Vice President
for Academic Affairs
 
“W.E.B. Du Bois,
Becoming Agnostic”

Wednesday, November 14
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

Dr. Brian Johnson is associate president for Academic Affairs at Johnson C. Smith University. He received his B.A. in English from The Honors College, Johnson C. Smith University (1995), and his M.A. in English from The University of Wisconsin-Madison (1998). He earned his Ph.D. in English from The University of South Carolina at Columbia (2003).  Johnson published his first book, Du Bois on Reform: Periodical-Based Leadership for African Americans (New York: Alta Mira Press, 2005). His recent scholarship includes a second book, W.E.B. Du Bois: Becoming Agnostic (a biography), which is under contract with Rowman and Littlefield and scheduled to be published in spring 2008, three co-edited volumes in the Conflicts in American History series, (under contract with ABL-CLIO) and a collection of essays entitled, African American Scholarship: New Directions for the 21st Century (under contract with The University of South Carolina Press).

He also serves as series editor for the Jonathan Jasper Wright Series on Southern African American Culture with The University of South Carolina Press.  Johnson has held a non-resident fellowship appointment within The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute of African/African American Research at Harvard University (2004-2005), a Lilly/Center for Christian Studies Fellowship at Gordon College (2005-2007),  a (2006-2007) Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation/Career Enhancement Fellowship and he has been named “The Civic Engagement Scholar” within the J. McDonald Williams Institute (2006-2008). He and his wife Shemeka (JCSU 97’) have two sons, Brian Asa and Nathan Morgan Qodesh.

Lyceum Series
Fall 2008 - Spring 2009 Calendar

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Fall 2008

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - Patrice Gaines, Award Winning Journalist
"The Power of One: Making Change, Making Connections"
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - Winston Crisp, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill
“WE THE PEOPLE . . .
The United States Constitution: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow”
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - Dr. Arlie Petters , Mathematician
"Science, Entrepreneurship, and Financial Success"
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008 - Al Young, California State Poet Laureate and Woodrow Wilson Fellow
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

Thursday, November 13, 2008 - Leon Bates, Pianist
Recital
Jane M. Smith Memorial Church
7:30 p.m.

SPRING 2009

THE FINE ARTS EXAMINE THE MEDICAL ARTS
An Exhibit of Commissioned Paintings about the Training for and the Practice of Medicine and Surgery
Sponsored by The Dr. William M. Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine of Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, Illinois
(Johnson C. Smith students can earn two Lyceum credits by attending the events connected with the Medical Arts Exhibit)
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

EXHIBITION
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
January 12 through January 30, 2009
Edward E. Crutchfield Center for Integrated Studies
HOURS
Monday through Friday, Noon-5:00 p.m.
(Free Parking in Gymnasium Lot, Next to Crutchfield Center)

Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - David McKay, Curator; James Fullwood, Johnson C. Smith University Alumnus
"The Fine Arts Examine the Medical Arts"
Lecture

Wednesday, January 21, 2009
William Shakespeare’s
“The Comedy of Errors”
Performed by
The American Shakespeare Center Touring Company
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

Thursday, February 5, 2009 - Bryan Ferguson, Film Director and Johnson C. Smith Alumnus
"The Death of Murphy"
Charlotte Film Premier and Q&A with Director
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 - Dr. Anjail Rashida Ahmad, Poet
Fourteenth Annual World of Words Poetry Festival
Writing Workshop
Lionel H. Newsom Humanities Building, Room 108
4:00 p.m.
Public Reading
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

Thursday, March 26, 2009 - Indigo Moor, Poet
Fourteenth World of Words Poetry Festival
Writing Workshop
Lionel H. Newsom Humanities Building, Room 108
4:00 p.m.
Public Reading
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

Friday, March 27, 2009 - Black Ink Monks Performance Poetry
Fourteenth World of Words Poetry Festival
Public Reading
Sarah Belk Gambrell AuditoriumM
7:30 p.m.

Thursday - Friday, April 2 - 3, 2009 - The Colored Museum by George C. Wolfe
JCSU Ira B. Aldridge Drama Guild Performance
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.