Celebrating The 70th Anniversary of her Cornell Degree (MA 1955)

Toni Morrison: Literature and Public Life

September 18-21, 2025
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Toni Morrison's 1955 Cornell Master’s Approval of Thesis

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, the presenters include: NoViolet Bulawayo, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Ishion Hutchinson, Tayari Jones, Louis Massiah, Claudine Raynaud, Carolyn Rouse, Autumn Womack, Kevin Young, as well as high school student artists.

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