Garnette Cadogan: In Praise of Play


The Calvin Center for Faith and Writing hosts a trilogy of talks from Garnette Cadogan.

About our featured author

An essayist and scholar of urban studies, Cadogan is the renowned author of "Walking While Black" and editor-at-large of Non-Stop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas (co-edited by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro).

He has been a visiting scholar at New York University and the University of Virginia. Cadogan is currently the Tunney Lee Distinguished Lecturer on Urbanism at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT.

Other events in the series

You're warmly invited to join us for all three of Cadogan's (free, in-person!) events:

  • Friday, March 31, 4 p.m. The City as Conjuration
    (followed by a conversation with Calvin emeritus Lee Hardy)
    Calvin University, Meeter Center Lecture Hall
  • Saturday, April 1, 7 p.m. On Memorial and Memory (followed by Q & A)
    Grand Rapids African American Museum and Archives
    (87 Monroe Center St NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49503)
    Registration is recommended — but not required! — for this event. Reserve your spot.

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