Oct 29
What Matters to Me and Why: Chielo Eze
Thu, October 29, 2026
• 12:00pm
- 1:00pm (1h) • Weitz 236
Chielo Eze is Professor of Africana Studies at Carleton College and a Research Associate at Nelson Mandela University in South Africa. Prior to joining Carleton, he served as the Bernard J. Brommel Distinguished Research Professor at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago and as Extraordinary Professor of English at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. In addition to publishing more than thirty articles in leading peer-reviewed journals, he is the author of Race, Decolonization, and Global Citizenship in South Africa (University of Rochester Press, 2018) and Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination: We, Too, Are Humans (Routledge, 2021). His most recent book, Zora Neale Hurston
and the Legacy of Black Feminism: Desire as Power, was published by Bloomsbury in January 2025.
What Matters to Me and Why? is a continuing series of faculty and staff talks on life, work, and meaning. Every term, staff/faculty members are invited to explore the question: what matters to you and why?
These conversations are a wonderful opportunity for students, faculty, and staff to come to know the people at Carleton in a deeper, more personal way. Lunch is provided.
If you would like to nominate a speaker, please email our College Chaplain, Schuyler Vogel, at svogel@carleton.edu. We strive to represent the full diversity of staff and faculty on campus and welcome nominations regardless of role or longevity. All members of the Carleton community have wisdom to share.
The series is cosponsored with EthIC.
Lunch is provided.
Event Contact: Schuyler Vogel