Upcoming Events
Hearing America Singing: Multi-Vocal Cultures in America
Elizabeth Alexander
Official Poet of President Barack Obama's Inauguration; Chair of the African American Studies Department, Yale University
Past Events
Tuesday, April 7th, 5:30 p.m., Lyons 301
No! The Rape Documentary
Director: Aishah Shahdiah Simmons
Works in Progress
Tuesday, April 7th, 12 - 1 p.m., Lyons 301
Busing As History: The Desegregation Era in Boston
David Quigley
Interim Dean, the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Friday, April 3rd, 7 p.m., St. Ignatius Church
Voices of Imani Spring Concert
Voices of Imani
Works in Progress
Tuesday, March 17th, 12 - 1 p.m., Lyons 301
Brazilian Modernity and British Nationalism
Zachary Morgan
Assistant Professor, History Department, Boston College
AADS Film Series
Monday, March 16th, 6:00 p.m., Lyons 301
Le Malentendu Colonial (The Colonial Misunderstanding) [2004]
Director: Jean-Marie Teno
New Directions in African Diaspora Studies
Wendesday, March 11th, 4:30 p.m., Devlin 101
Visible Blackness?: Bleached bodies and conceptions of blackness in the Age of Globalization
Winnifred Brown-Glaude
Assistant Professor, African American Studies, The College of New Jersey
New Directions in African Diaspora Studies
Wendesday, February 25th, 4:30 p.m., Devlin 101
Working the Dope Hustle in Post-WWII Cities
Rhonda Williams
Associate Professor, History Department, Case Western Reserve University
Black History Month 2009
February 17, 2009
The Election of Barack Obama
How does Barack Obama's election affect racism in the United States? Come join faculty and students for a discussion.
Works in Progress
February 17, 2009
Race, Reconciliation, & Reconstruction: Integrating the African into African American History
Karen Miller
Adjunct Associate Professor, History Department, Boston College
AADS Film Series
February 16, 2009
Daughters of the Dust (1991)
Directed by: Julie Dash
New Directions in African Diaspora Studies
February 12, 2009
The Unbearable Being of Whiteness: Reconsidering Race in the British West Indies
Harvey Neptune
Assistant Professor of History, Temple University
AADS Film Series
January 26, 2009
The Rosa Parks Story (2002)
Directed by: Julie Dash
January 19, 2009
Yes We Can: Boston College's Annual Martin Luther King. Jr. Memorial Gathering and Celebration of Hope
Combined Music Ministries of Against the Current, Liturgy Arts Group, and Voices of Imani
December 5, 2008
Voices of Imani Christmas Concert
Free admission
Lowell Humanities Series, sponsored by Boston College and The Lowell Institute
December 4, 2008
Innocent Tales of Dreamlike Horror
Uwem Akpan, S.J.
Author of Say You're One of Them (Little Brown, 2008)
Say You're One of Them
is Nigerian Uwem Akpan's first book - a collection of five short
stories about children and families experiencing the deprivations and
perils of life in modern Africa.
November 18, 2008
Grace Akallo
Author of Girl Soldier: A Story of Hope for Northern Uganda's Children (2007)
November 18, 2008
Works in Progress
Rape and Racial Appraisals in the U.S. and South Africa
M. Shawn Copeland
Associate Professor, Theology Department
November 17, 2008
AADS Film Series
November 5, 2008
New Directions in African Diaspora Studies
Kali Gross
Associate Professor and Director of Africana Studies, Drexel University
October 20, 2008
AADS Film Series
October 15, 2008
Works in Progress
Climate Change in the Literary Imagination
Min Hyoung Song
Associate Professor, English Department
October 8, 2008
New Directions in African Diaspora Studies
A Reading
Junot Díaz
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
