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Black Internationalism – Then and Now
African American Intellectual History Society’s Fourth Annual Conference
The fourth annual conference of the African American Intellectual History Society will take place at the Rackham Graduate School and the...
Lelia Gonzalez's Black Diaspora Feminist Project in the Americas
Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, Africana Studies, Brown University
Lelia Gonzalez is oftentimes remembered in Brazil as one of the most important black feminist scholars and activists of the...
Critical Conversations -- The Novel
Alicia Christoff | Danny Hack | Akil Kumarasamy | Antoine Traisnel | Gaurav Desai (chair)
"Critical Conversations" is a new monthly lunch series organized by the English Department for 2018-19. In each session, a panel of four...
Betty Ch'maj Distinguished American Studies Lecture: "Soul Survivals: Black Music and the Language of Resilience"
Emily Lordi, an Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Soul is in the air again. Each day seems to bring a new documentary, biography, posthumous record release, or Lifetime Achievement Award for...
Lost in Translation: Black 92nd Infantry Division Soldiers, Italian Partisans, and the Politics of Liberation in World War Two Europe
Robert F. Jefferson, Jr
This presentation will explore the face-to-face interactions between black GIs and Italian civilians in the Apennines Mountains of Italy...
African Women Film Series - Notre Étrangère (The Place in Between) Film Screening
The University of Michigan’s CEW+, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, and African Studies Center are pleased to present the...
DAAS Diasporic Dialogues: “Theatre, Womanist Knowledge-Making and Violence in Jamaica: Witnessing A Vigil for Roxie.”
Nicosia Shakes (Africana Studies The College of Wooster)
In this talk, Nicosia Shakes analyzes a 2015 performance of the play, A Vigil for Roxie, co-created by Jamaican theatre artists, Carol...
2019 Robert F. Berkhofer Jr. Lecture: An Evening With Mary Kathryn Nagle
"Native Theater in the 21st Century: Piercing the Invisibility and Restoring Our Humanity," by Mary Kathryn Nagle
Native American Studies at the University of Michigan presents the 2019 Robert F. Berkhofer Jr. Lecture: An Evening With Mary Kathryn Nagle...
DAAS Africa Workshop "Rhodes Must Not Rise: Decolonial Thought in Pre-colonial Malawi"
Harri Englund (Anthropology, Cambridge)
In the 1880s, when the future of Malawi was being decided between Cecil Rhodes and the British government, Protestant missionaries from...
Beyond the Carceral State
Roundtable
This roundtable is part of the Carceral State Project, a year of dialogue about criminal justice, policing, imprisonment, inequality, and...
Africa Workshop “How to get away with blasphemy: the politics of religious offense in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania”.
Zekeriah Ahmed Salem (Political Science, Northwestern)
On April 27, 2012, Birame Abeid, a renowned Mauritanian activist planned carefully and executed the public burning of several books of...
Post45 Graduate Symposium
Fourth Annual Post45 Graduate Symposium...
Post45 Graduate Symposium
Fourth Annual Post45 Graduate Symposium...
