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DESCRIPTION:The Department of English is thrilled to welcome Harvard Profes
 sor Robin Bernstein for the 2026 Spector Lecture 'Fugitive Sentimentalism:
  The Forgotten Genius of H. E. Lewis\, Negro Mesmerist'.\n\nThe annual Spe
 ctor Lecture is the most prestigious scholarly lecture hosted by the Depar
 tment of English.\n\n29 January 2026\, 6 p.m.\n	Redpath Museum Auditorim\n	M
 cGill University\n\nRobin Bernstein is a cultural historian who focuses on
  race and performance\, mainly in the US\, from the nineteenth century to 
 the present. She is the author of Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Sho
 ok America’s Original Prison for Profit\, which she wrote with support fro
 m the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Radcliffe Institute fo
 r Advanced Study. Freeman’s Challenge won the Montaigne Medal and the PROS
 E Award for North American/US History\; it also received the Nonfiction Ho
 nor for the Massachusetts Book Award. Bernstein’s previous book\, Racial I
 nnocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights\, won
  five awards and was runner-up for two more. In 2021\, she co-won the Will
 iam Riley Parker Prize\, given for the year’s outstanding article in PMLA.
  Her public-facing work has appeared in the New York Times\, the Zinn Educ
 ation Project\, the Chronicle of Higher Education\, Inquest\, and Teen Vog
 ue. Bernstein teaches at Harvard University\, where she is the Dillon Prof
 essor of American History and Professor of African and African American St
 udies and Studies of Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality. robinbernsteinphd.com
 \; @robinmbernstein\n\nBernstein's talk will be followed by a Q&A. This ev
 ent is free and in person. Everyone is welcome.\n\nThe room has limited ca
 pacity. Please reserve your seat.\n\nReserve Your Seat!\n\nFor questions\,
  please contact Camille Owens at camille.owens [at] mcgill.ca.\n
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LOCATION:Auditorium\, Redpath Museum\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0C4\, 859 r
 ue Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:2026 Spector Lecture - Robin Bernstein
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