As one of Trinity University’s premier humanities lecture series, the Lennox Seminar Lecture Series brings nationally recognized speakers to campus for a variety of topics. An outcome of the seminar is an anthology of papers generated by the speaker and seminar participants that are made available to the wider community.
The final lecture in the series is “Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War.” The event will be held in person in the Chapman Center Auditorium on Wednesday, April 27, from 7–9:30 p.m. For those who can’t make it in person, the lecture will also be livestreamed on Tiger Network.
Howard W. French is a career foreign correspondent and global affairs writer and the author of five books, including his most recent non-fiction work, Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War. He is also a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, and he speaks French, Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish.
French worked as a French-English translator in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, in the early 1980s and taught English literature for several years at the University of Abidjan. His career in journalism began as a freelance reporter for The Washington Post and other publications in West Africa. He joined The New York Times in 1986 and worked as a metropolitan reporter with the newspaper for three years, and then from 1990 to 2008 reported overseas for The Times as bureau chief for Central America and the Caribbean, West and Central Africa, Japan and the Koreas, and China, based in Shanghai. During this time, he was twice the recipient of an Overseas Press Club Award, and his work has received numerous other awards.
The lecture series is made possible by the Lennox Foundation, established by siblings Martha, David, and Bagby Lennox in 1985. The foundation makes grants totaling between $500,000 and $1 million each year to nonprofits, public charities, and projects serving Red River County, Texas and its contiguous Texas counties. Its emphasis is on education, conservation, historical preservation, land and nature preservation and preservation of social infrastructure.
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