Widely considered one of the foremost intellectuals of the 21st century, bell hooks returns to St. Norbert College (De Pere, Wis.) for her fourth and final weeklong residency, in conversation with Bettina Love on liberatory education pedagogy and black childhood. This dialogue is one of several public events at the 2017 bell hooks Residency at St. Norbert College, where the Cassandra Voss Center serves as a sistercenter to hooks’ own bell hooks Institute at Berea College in Kentucky. Cosponsored by St. Norbert College teachereducation, St. Norbert College Emmaus Center, Aldo Leopold Community School, 91.1 The Avenue and Humana. #SNCmasculinitysummit #masculinitynow

bell hooks has been honored as a leading public intellectual by The Atlantic Monthly, as well as one of Utne Reader's "100 Visionaries Who Could Change Your Life," hooks is a captivating speaker and canonical scholar who has authored over 40 books. She is also distinguished professor in residence in Appalachian studies at Berea College, Berea, Kentucky.

Bettina Love is an awardwinning author and associate professor of education at University of Georgia. She is a recent Harvard Hiphop Fellow and has written a civics curriculum called “Get Free.”