Erin King Watts, associate professor of media and technology studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, will deliver a Black History Month talk at 3 p.m. Feb. 28 in the Nebraska Union, Heritage Room.
The talk, “Zombies are Real: Blackness Conspiracies and the Post-Truth Wars,” is free and open to the public.
Watts will examine difficult topics, including the diversity of the public voice of African Americans, how it represents black culture and shapes society. He argues that the post-truth era features a repetitive mode of discourse that, in part, legitimizes conspiracies and anxieties regarding how black culture is being unleashed on society.
The talk outlines the formal features of the post-truth era by examining the Discovery Channel docudrama “Zombie Preppers.”
For more information about the lecture, send email to ckelly11@unl.edu or dbraithwaite@unl.edu.
