Rescheduled: 2025 Reckford Lecture in European Studies

Yale University professor Fatima El-Tayeb will deliver the 2025 Mary Stevens Reckford Memorial Lecture in European Studies on April 15 on Zoom.

Her lecture, titled “Un/German. Racialized Otherness in Post–Cold War Europe,” examines the impacts of post-Cold War Europe’s reconceptualization of its past and present, with a particular focus on Germany.

El-Tayeb is a professor of ethnicity, race and migration and women’s, gender, and Sexuality studies at Yale University. Her research interests include Black Europe, comparative diaspora studies, queer of color critique, critical Muslim studies, decolonial theory, transnational feminisms, visual culture studies, race and technology, and critical European studies.

Register for the Zoom webinar. Students can also RSVP on HeelLife; students must confirm their attendance to receive CLE credit.

The Institute hosts the annual Mary Stevens Reckford Memorial Lecture in European Studies, established in 1990 by UNC Classics Professor Kenneth J. Reckford to honor his wife, Mary Stevens Reckford (February 25, 1934 – November 12, 1987). It is co-sponsored by the Center for European Studies.

The lecture is designed to appeal to the public, rather than specialists. Speakers are asked to provide “pleasure, instruction, an interdisciplinary approach and a sense of shared humanity.” Because Mary Reckford’s birthday is Feb. 25, the Institute hosts the lecture within the month of February.