Hosted by the Emancipation Support Committee, the Kwame Ture Memorial Lecture Series presents “Dismantling Colonial Legacies: The Role of Creatives” by Kevin Adonis Browne. Free and open to the public, this lecture will take place on June 14, 2026, at 5:00pm, at City Hall, Port of Spain, Trinidad.
Kevin Adonis Browne is Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at Syracuse University. He is the author of three books: Tropic Tendencies: Rhetoric, Popular Culture, and the Anglophone Caribbean (2013), High Mas: Carnival and the Poetics of Caribbean Culture (2018), which won the Bocas Literary Prize in 2019; and A Sense of Arrival (2024).
His work operates at the intersection of Rhetoric, Literatures of the Caribbean, Visual Arts, and Vernacular Philosophy, and his portfolio includes a range of traditional publications and research projects, born-digital and hybrid projects, poetry and essay publications, original fine art and documentary photography, contemporary art, and local and international exhibitions.
As a scholar in the theory and practice of Rhetoric and Poetics that shape the African Diaspora, his interests are buttressed by a sustained engagement with the ontological and teleological concerns of this vast demographic, as well as the imperatives necessitated by its existence. As such, he privileges the imagination as an act of freedom and strives to produce—and support the production of—work that makes that critical imagining possible. [. . .]
The Kwame Ture Memorial Lecture Series: A critical forerunner to the Emancipation celebrations. The lecture series is named after prominent civil rights activist, Kwame Ture, whose lifelong desire was the edification and empowerment of all African people. Using compelling lectures, presentations, youth panels and video, the lecture series attempts to perpetuate Ture’s legacy – building the awareness, consciousness and intellect of African peoples to better control their destiny and their social and economic well-being.
Guest lecturers are well known activists, academics and political/business leaders from Trinidad and Tobago and around the world. The free lectures run for eight weeks leading up to Emancipation and culminate with the Forum on Africa and the Diaspora.
For more information, see https://www.emancipationtt.com/
Also see https://artsandsciences.syracuse.edu/people/faculty/kevin-adonis-browne/#Biography
Hosted by the Emancipation Support Committee, the Kwame Ture Memorial Lecture Series presents “Dismantling Colonial Legacies: The Role of Creatives” by Kevin Adonis Browne. Free and open to the public, this lecture will take place on June 14, 2026, at 5:00pm, at City Hall, Port of Spain, Trinidad. Kevin Adonis Browne is Professor of Rhetoric
