A discussion on Brandon Terry's, "Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement" - Center for Global Culture and Communication

The Center of Global Culture and Communication (An interdisciplinary initiative of Northwestern University’s School of Communication)

& The Center for Transcultural Studies (An independent intellectual network with institutional roots in Chicago)

Jointly present

Questioning the Present: An Online Public Forum (Session 26) on

Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement

(Harvard University of Press, 2025).

Brandon M. Terry

(African and African American Studies, Harvard University)

Respondents

Martha Biondi

(Black Studies, Northwestern University)

Chris A. Chambers

(Political Science, University of Pennsylvania )

Ainsley LeSure

(Political Science & Africana Studies, Brown University)

ON ZOOM

Friday, June 5, 2026

10 a.m. to 12 p.m. CST

Convened by Dilip Gaonkar (Northwestern University)

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A discussion on Brandon Terry’s, “Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement”