Upcoming Events
Mary Hannah Tabbs & the Dismembered Body of Wakefield Gaines
Kali Gross
Professor, Drexel University
November 5th, 4:30 p.m. in Devlin 101
Title TBA
Harvey Neptune
Assistant Professor, Temple University
January 2009
Working the Dope Hustle in Post-WWII Cities
Rhonda Williams
Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University
February 2009
Title TBA
Winnifred Brown-Glaude
Assistant Professor, SUNY-Stony Brook
March 2009
Past Events
Junot Díaz: A Reading
Junot Díaz
Pulitzer Prize - winning author
October 8, 2008
Winter Lecture Series
C.L.R. James’s Misplaced Affections
Nadia Ellis
January 31, 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
February 7, 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 14, 2008
Terre et chair: Re-embodying Violence in Gisèle Pineau’s Macadam Dreams
Régine Jean-Charles
Februrary 19, 2008
Only Draw in Your Countrymen: Akan Community and Culture in Colonial New York City
Walter Rucker
Associate Professor, The Ohio State University
February 21, 2008
The Atlantic World: A View from the Cane Fields of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
Alexander Byrd
Associate Professor, Rice University
February 26, 2008
Additional Lectures in the Series
Traveling Ethnicity in the Nineteenth Century
James Wallace
Associate Professor, English Department
April 18, 2007
Bearing Witness: African Slavery in the Nile Valley
Eve Troutt Powell
Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania
March 28, 2007
Title TBA
John Jackson
February 7, 2007
The African Diaspora and Black Masculine Performance
Michelle Stephens
Associate Professor, Mount Holyoke College
November 8, 2006
Class, Poverty, and Shame
Tommie Shelby
Professor, Havard University
October 18, 2006
Accounting for the Women: Demography and Epistemology in North American Slavery
Jennifer Morgan
Associate Professor, Rutgers University
February 23, 2006
