April 18, 1996
Contact: Kelly C. Lockhart, (615) 322-2706

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The author of the Black Athena books, seminal afrocentristic publications which created argument and discussion about the historical account of western civilization, will lecture Monday, April 22, at Vanderbilt University's Furman Hall, room 114, at 4:10 p.m.

Professor Martin Bernal of Cornell University's Department of Government has authored several books including: Chinese Socialism Before 1907 (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1976); Black Athena The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization 1: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985 (London: Free Association Books, and New Brunswick: Rutgers University, 1987); and Black Athena 2: The Archaeological and Documentary Evidence (London: Free Association Books, and New Brunswick: Rutgers University, 1991).

Bernal's April 22 lecture, titled "Egypt, Greece and the Great Year: New Age, Old and New," is sponsored by the 1995-96 Fellows Program at Vanderbilt's Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities.

The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, call the Humanities Center at 343-6060.