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
Climate 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 DepartmentMarch 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 StudiesOctober 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 DepartmentFebruary 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 DepartmentOctober 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