New Directions in African Diaspora Studies

Upcoming Events

September 30th, 2009; 7:30 pm in the Heights Room

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

 

November 10th, 2009; 4 pm in Devlin 101

The Reaper’s Garden: Social Death and Political Life in the History of Slavery

Vincent Brown

Associate Professor, African & African American Studies Department, Harvard University

February 18th, 2009; 4:30 pm in Devlin 101

Title TBA

Daphne Brooks

Associate Professor, English and African American Studies, Princeton University

March 24th, 2009; 4:30 pm in Devlin 101

Heroin Plagues and Moral Panics: Drug Use Studies among African Americans, 1950-1975 and the Case of the Missing User

Sam Roberts

Associate Professor, History Department, Columbia University

April 15th, 2009; 4:30 pm in Devlin 101

Going Beyond The Closet: Sexuality and Identity in the Anglophone Caribbean

Michelle Rowley

Past Events

Wednesday, 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, The College of New Jersey

Wednesday, February 25th, 4:30 p.m., Devlin 101
Working the Dope Hustle in Post-WWII Cities
Rhonda Williams
Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University

Thursday, February 12th, 4:30 p.m., Devlin 101
The Unbearable Being of Whiteness:  Reconsidering Race in the British West Indies
Harvey Neptune
Assistant Professor, Temple University

November 5, 2008
Mary Hannah Tabbs & the Dismembered Body of Wakefield Gaines
Kali Gross
Associate Professor and Director of Africana Studies, Drexel University

October 8, 2008
A Reading
Junot Díaz
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

February 26, 2008
The Atlantic World:  A View from the Cane Fields of Eighteenth Century Jamaica
Alexander Byrd
Associate Professor, Rice University

February 21, 2008
Only Draw in Your Countrymen:  Akan Community and Culture in Colonial New York
Walter Rucker
Associate Professor, The Ohio State University

February 19, 2008
Terre et chair:  Re-embodying Violence in Gisèle Pineau’s Macadam Dreams
Régine Jean-Charles
Assistant Professor, Romance Languagues and Literatures, Boston College

February 14, 2008
A "New Freedom of Movement of Negro Women":  Sojourning for Truth, Justice, and Human Rights During the Early Cold War
Erik McDuffie
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

February 7, 2008
The “Vicious Negro Lunatic” and the “Violent African:” Transnational Discourses of Black Male Insanity in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Martin Summers
Associate Professor, History Department, Boston College

January 31, 2008
C.L.R. James’s Misplaced Affections
Nadia Ellis

April 18, 2007
Traveling Ethnicity in the Nineteenth Century
James Wallace
Associate Professor, English Department, Boston College

March 28, 2007
Bearing Witness:  African Slavery in the Nile Valley
Eve Troutt Powell
Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania

February 7, 2007
Title TBA
John Jackson

February 14, 2008
The African Diaspora and Black Masculine Performance
Michelle Stephens
Associate Professor, Mount Holyoke College

October 18, 2006
Class, Poverty, and Shame
Tommie Shelby
Professor, Harvard University

February 23, 2006
Accounting for the Women:  Demography and Epistemology in North American Slavery
Jennifer Morgan
Associate Professor, Rutgers University