Lectures and Events

The Africana Studies Program offers lecture and other programming funds. If you’re planning an event, fill out and return the Programming Funds Request Form.

Events

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Oct. 8, 2024, 5:30–7:00 p.m.

A book talk with award-winning Syrian writer Shahla Ujayli and translator Michelle Hartman.

Campus community only, please.

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A panel discussion moderated by Dr. Sa’ed Atshan, 2024–2025 Randolph Fellow in Peace, Conflict, and the Middle East, featuring Professors Tagreed Al-Haddad and Candace Lukasik.

Campus community only, please.

Past Events

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A talk by Rhiana Gunn-Wright, a Senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and chief policy architect of the Green New Deal—a policy framework that puts justice at the center of climate action.

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Apr. 26, 2024, 5:00 p.m.

Author Catherine Tan, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Vassar College, will be sharing her book, Spaces on the Spectrum: How Autism Movements Resist Experts and Create Knowledge. Reception to follow.

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Mar. 27, 2024, 5:00 p.m.

This lecture by Dr. Heba Gowayed, Associate Professor of Sociology at Hunter College (CUNY), will explore the marketplace between migrants, smugglers, and states.

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Mar. 20, 2024, 5:00 p.m.

This lecture by Dr. Fumilayo Showers, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies at the University of Connecticut, will explore race, the state, and the many African immigrants laboring in U.S. health care.

Black and white headshot image of Professor Maya Cunningham looking forward. Text reads - “Sounding Freedom: The Black Revolutionary Tradition In Song. Feb 22, 2024, 5:30, 1951 Reading Room. This talk explores the Black musical forms and songs of artists that have expressed African American freedom-seeking strategies and related political ideologies." Additional text is too long to include as alt text.

This talk explores the Black musical forms and songs of artists that have expressed African American freedom-seeking strategies and related political ideologies. Music has always been a major mode of expression for African Americans, connecting the group to their African homeland and deeply rooting them to American soil.

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Join Michael Gomez, Silver Professor of History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University and the Director of NYU’s Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora, for this comprehensive discussion.

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Professor Miles P. Grier (Queens College, CUNY and CUNY Graduate Center) offers a lecture based on his research on the transatlantic performance history of Shakespeare’s Othello, Shakespeare and early modern science, and Black Atlantic responses from Wheatley to Toni Morrison.

Campus community only, please.