African and African Diaspora Studies

Works In Progress Lecture Series

showcasing the research and writing of aads core and affiliate faculty

All lectures are delivered in Lyons Hall 301 from 12 - 1 pm. Lunch is provided at each event. These sessions are free and open to the public.


Upcoming Events


February 17, 2009
Race, Reconciliation & Reconstruction:  Integrating the African into African American History
Karen K. Miller
Adjunct Associate Professor, History Department


March 17, 2009
Brazilian Modernity and British Nationalism
Zachary Morgan
Assistant Professor, History Department


April 7, 2009
Busing as History:  The Desegregation Era in Boston
David Quigley
Associate Professor, History Department and Interim Dean, College of Arts and Sciences and The Graduate School



Previous Lectures

Fall 2008

Tuesday, November 18th
Rape and Racial Appraisals in the U.S. and South Africa

C. Shawn McGuffey
Assistant Professor, Sociology Department


October 15, 2008
C
limate Change in the Literary Imagination
Min Hyoung Song
Associate Professor, English Department

September 16, 2008
HIV Prevention and African American Women in Boston
Rosanna DeMarco
Associate Professor, Community Health, William F. Connell School of Nursing

Spring 2008

April 16, 2008
The Latin Rock Diaspora
Roberto Avant-Mier
Assistant Professor, Communications Department

March 12, 2008
Tripping the Dark Fantastic:  Genre and Diaspora in Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring
Rhonda Frederick
Associate Professor, English Department

Fall 2007

November 13, 2007
Remembering the Slave Trade in West African Fiction
Laura Murphy
Former Lecturer, African and African Diaspora Studies

October 16, 2007
Oprah in South Africa - Philanthropy and the Politics of Coevalness
Zine Magubane
Associate Professor, Sociology Department

Spring 2007

March 21, 2007
Rethinking Black Women's Bodies:  A Strategy for Liberation
M. Shawn Copeland
Associate Professor, Theology Department

February 21, 2007
Black Ops:  Terrorism, Pop Culture and the Race Body
Cynthia Young
Associate Professor, English Department

Fall 2006

November 15, 2006
Roots of the Revolta da Chibata (Revolt of the Lash):  Afro-Brazilian Revolution and the Trans-Atlantic Maritime World
Zachary Morgan
Assistant Professor, History Department

October 18, 2006
It's a White Thing:  The Impact of Gender and Race on Parental Responses to Male Child Sexual Abuse
C. Shawn McGuffey
Assistant Professor, Sociology Department

September 20, 2006
Reconnecting the Black Atlantic World:  Struggles for Liberation and Identity, 1770-1965
David Northrup
Professor, History Department