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Whose King?: Claiming the Man who Died for America's Soul
MLK Day Annual Breakfast & Keynote
The Director of the Center for Social Solutions and Thomas C. Holt Distinguished University Professor of History, Afroamerican and African...
“MLK Jr.'s Legacy and the Crisis of Racial Capitalism - What's Next?”
with Barbara Ransby (History; Gender and Women's Studies; and African American Studies, UIC)
Barbara Ransby is an historian, writer, and longtime political activist. Ransby has published dozens of articles and essays in popular and...
The 1619 Project Podcast: Episode 3: The Birth of American Music
Discussant: Naomi Andre, Associate Director for Faculty; Professor, Arts and Ideas in the Humanities Program, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, and Women's Studies
Black music, forged in captivity, became the sound of complete artistic freedom. It also became the sound of America. On today’s episode:...
The 1619 Podcast: Episode 4: How the Bad Blood Started
with Discussant Earl Lewis, Director of the University of Michigan Center for Social Solutions and Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies
Black Americans were denied access to doctors and hospitals for decades. From the shadows of this exclusion, they pushed to create the...
Transcultural Studies Information Session
The Program in Transcultural Studies is an accelerated master's degree program designed for LSA undergraduate students. Join us for an...
The 1619 Project: Episode 5, part 1 and 2: The Land of our Fathers
Discussant: Kelly Askew, Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican & African Studies
Part 1: More than a century and a half after the promise of 40 acres and a mule, the story of black land ownership in America remains one of...
Critical Conversations: Rhetoric
Christiane Gruber | Alisse Portnoy | Daniel Valella | Melanie Yergeau | Anne Gere (chair)
"Critical Conversations" is a monthly lunch series organized by the English Department for 2019-20. In each session, a panel of...
Africa Workshop with Robert Launay (Northwestern)
“Piety has a history: examples from Islam in Africa”
Biography...
Wallace House Presents “The 1619 Project: Examining the Legacy of Slavery and the Building of a Nation”
Nikole Hannah-Jones and Rochelle Riley
Journalism is often called the first draft of history. But journalism can also be used as a powerful tool for examining history....
Black History Month Kicks Off with Dr. Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five, formally known as the Central Park Five
We are honored to welcome Dr. Yusef Salaam on February 3rd as our keynote speaker for Black History Month. Dr. Salaam, one of the Exonerated...
Teaching Contemporary Narratives of Migration
Sigrid Anderson | Hadji Bakara | Kristin Dickinson | Amal Hassan Fadlalla | Aliyah Khan | Supriya Nair | Joshua Miller (chair)
Please join the Critical Contemporary Studies Workshop for our second panel discussion in a winter semester series on teaching contemporary...
Critical Conversations: Futures
Joanna Davis-McElligatt | Laura Finch | Courtney McClellan | Dana Murphy | Peggy McCracken (chair)
"Critical Conversations" is a monthly lunch series organized by the English Department for 2019-20. In each session, a panel of...
International Institute Conference on Migration
Featuring local and international experts on migration
University of Michigan International Institute areas studies centers have collaborated to present the International Institute Conference on...
Huey Copeland Lecture
Please join the Critical Contemporary Studies Workshop for a public lecture by Huey Copeland (Northwestern). More information forthcoming.
City on the Edge: Ypsilanti, African Americans and the World of Work
Dr. Alford Young, Jr
Join us as Dr. Alford A. Young, Jr. (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Sociology, Afroamerican and African Studies, and the Gerald R. Ford...
Teaching 21st-Century Literature
Sumita Chakraborty | Walter Cohen | Peter Ho Davies | Laura Finch | Kyle Frisina | Ben Mangrum (chair)
Please join the Critical Contemporary Studies Workshop for our final panel discussion in a winter semester series on teaching contemporary...
Critical Conversations: "Health"
Anna Kirkland | Ava Purkiss | Michael Schoenfeldt | Tessa Tinkle | Antoine Traisnel (chair)
"Critical Conversations" is a monthly lunch series organized by the English Department for 2019-20. In each session, a panel of...
FellowSpeak: "E pluribus unum: Out of many voices, one language"
Marlyse Baptista, John Rich Faculty Fellow, professor, Afroamerican and African studies and linguistics
In this talk, Baptista explores how in a multilingual setting, the languages spoken by speakers with different first languages coalesce to...
Critical Conversations: Dissertation Showcase
Carl Lavigne | Naitnaphit Limlamai | Hayley O’Malley | Lavelle Ridley | Aida Levy-Hussen (chair)
"Critical Conversations" is a monthly lunch series organized by the English Department for 2019-20. In each session, a panel of...
