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Compton Lecture set for Feb. 20 at Watson Forum
The Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) program at DePauw University will welcome community organizers Musa Springer and Erica Caines for this year’s Compton Lecture.
Springer and Caines will discuss their cultural work and political organizing in a talk titled Revolutionary Pan-Africanism and Black Internationalist Organizing on Tuesday, Feb. 20. The event will begin at 4 p.m. in Watson Forum.
Springer is a cultural worker, community organizer and journalist from Atlanta, Ga. They are the International Youth Representative for Cuba’s Red Barrial Afrodescendant and a longtime member of the Walter Rodney Foundation.
Caines is the Coordinating Committee vice chair of the Black Alliance For Peace (BAP), serves as the co-coordinator of the BAP Haiti/Americas Team and as the coordinator of the BAP-Baltimore Citywide Alliance.
The Compton Lecture is supported by the Johnson and Wright Fund. The 2024 event is organized by the Peace and Conflict Studies Program and co-sponsored by the Latin American Caribbean Studies and Education Studies programs.
The event is free and open to the public.
The Compton Lecture is named in honor of Russell J. Compton, who taught at DePauw from 1951 until 1974 and remained active in the university’s life afterward. DePauw honored the longtime educator and activist by dedicating the Russell J. Compton Center for Peace and Justice.
For more information, persons may contact Peace and Conflict Studies Director Derek Ford at derekford@depauw.edu.