Saidiya Hartman to deliver 20th Annual AICA-USA Kippy Stroud Foundation Distinguished Critic Lecture at The New School
March 2, 2026
We’re thrilled to announce that Saidiya Hartman will deliver the 20th Annual AICA-USA Kippy Stroud Foundation Distinguished Critic Lecture at the New School, to be held in partnership with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School on November 30th, 2026! More details are forthcoming on our website, email and social channels.
Saidiya Hartman is the author of Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (Oxford, 1997, Norton, 2022); Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007) and Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments (Norton, 2019), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, and the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, the Mary Nickliss Prize from the Organization of American Historians, the Judy Grahn Prize for Lesbian Nonfiction, and the John Hope Franklin Prize from the American Studies Association. She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2019 and was nominated as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022. She is University Professor at Columbia University.
About the AICA-USA Kippy Stroud Foundation Distinguished Critic Lecture at the New School
Launched in 2007 and presented in partnership with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, the AICA-USA Kippy Stroud Distinguished Critic Lecture at The New School is an annual event during which an exemplary writer addresses seminal issues in contemporary art criticism.
We thank the Marion Boulton “Kippy” Stroud Foundation for their support of this year’s program.