SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Toni Morrison: Celebrating The 70th Anniversary of her Cornell Degree (MA 1955)
Cornell University’s Toni Morrison Collective in collaboration with the Toni Morrison Society invites the public to a symposium celebrating the 70th anniversary of her Cornell Degree (MA 1955). Among the international, distinguished, and emerging scholars and writers, presenters include:

• Tayari Jones (Emory University; A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell). Jones’ participation is part of an A.D. White Professors-at-Large mini-visit, Sept. 18-20, 2025.
• Louis Massiah ’77 (Founding Director (1982) & Current Executive Director, Scribe Video Center; A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell). Massiah visits Cornell as a Professor-at-Large April 6-10, 2026.
• NoViolet Bulawayo
• Farah Jasmine Griffin
• Ishion Hutchinson
• Claudine Raynaud
• Carolyn Rouse
• Autumn Womack
• Kevin Young
• Various high school artists

Registration required (no fee) by Sept. 1, 2025
Inquiries: tonimorrisoncoll@cornell.edu

Toni Morrison ’55 served as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large from 1997-2003.

Louis Massiah ’77 is an esteemed interdisciplinary documentary filmmaker and film producer practiced in articulating the values of community media, challenging the common beliefs about how film should be made, and organizing community documentary strategies across media practices to address important but often-neglected subjects with integrity, insight, and artistry.

Massiah is the founding director (1982), and current Executive Director, of Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia, a hub for artistic expression, dedicated to empowering underrepresented and emerging filmmakers in forging creative and inquiring methods, using video as a medium, to record issues affecting diverse economic and cultural communities, as a call to collective action and catalyst for social change.

Massiah received his B.A. from Cornell in 1977 and received his M.S. in Visual Studies from MIT in 1982. Full bio.

Photo credit: Conrad Louis-Charles for Scribe Video Center