Bartlett Lecture Series presents Jeff Chang

March 9, 2015

University Relations

Acclaimed author Jeff Chang will speak Wednesday, March 25, 2015, at 7 p.m. in the Wood Center ballroom.

Chang's presentation, part of the University of Alaska’s Bartlett Lecture Series, is free and open to the public.

Chang will read from his latest book, "Who We Be: The Colorization of America." Chang’s lecture will cover themes from the book, weaving comic strips and contemporary art, campus protests and corporate marketing campaigns, and Martin Luther King, Jr. and Trayvon Martin into a powerful, unusual and timely cultural history of the idea of racial progress.

Chang has received many honors, including the American Book Award and the Asian American Literary Award. He was named by The Utne Reader as one of "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World." He has written for The Nation, The New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Believer, Foreign Policy, N+1, Mother Jones, Salon, Slate, Buzzfeed and Medium, among many others. He serves as the executive director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University.