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
Explores how storytelling rooted in personal experience, Zambian proverbs, and mother tongues can heal colonial harms and preserve culture, featuring Mubanga Kalimamukwento, an award-winning Zambian author, magazine founder, and University of Minnesota Feminist Studies PhD student.
Free and open to the public.
Join Dr. Rachel Laryea as she talks with us about her book, Black Capitalists.
Past Events
This lecture examines literary and historical narratives to elaborate “colonial domesticity.”
Campus community only, please.
This talk draws on Philip V. McHarris’s book Beyond Policing to examine the failures of policing as a framework for safety and the ways Black communities have long enacted practices of care, protection, and refusal beyond the state.
Sherrilyn Ifill ’84 discusses reimagining a new American democracy, and the role of the legal profession in defending civil rights for this year’s Norman E. Hodges Biennial Lecture.
Ryan Jobson, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, examines how the rise and fall of the oil industry impacts post-colonial nationalist visions of the future in Trinidad and Tobago. Jobson asks us to consider if there can be a viable political and economic future for Trinidad and Tobago without oil, a question that should be relevant to us all living in a fossil fuel-based global economy.
Brahim El Guabli, Associate Professor of Arabic at Williams College, recenters TAMAZGHA—the ancestral Amazigh homeland extending from the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean to the oasis of Siwa in West Egypt—as a transformative geography helping to reconnect North and sub-Saharan Africa to each other.
Campus community only, please.
Religion Professor Kirsten Wesselhoeft hosts an event celebrating her new book, Fraternal Critique: The Politics of Muslim Community in France. She will give a talk and have a question and answer period.
Join Amanda Munroe, Director of Restorative Practices, and Professor Kimberly Williams Brown, Director of Engaged Pluralism, in one of our intergroup dialogue sessions following Khaled Beydoun and Ken Stern's moderated discussion.
Campus community only, please.
Join Amanda Munroe, Director of Restorative Practices, and Professor Kimberly Williams Brown, Director of Engaged Pluralism, in one of our intergroup dialogue sessions following Khaled Beydoun and Ken Stern's moderated discussion.
Campus community only, please.
The film imagines an actress preparing to play Césaire, and encountering and re-examining her own ideas about creativity, love, Black identity, and politics as a result.
The event will feature a Zoom presentation and Q&A with Dr. Ngubane who will talk about his background, his activist and academic work, and ongoing struggles for land justice in post-apartheid South Africa, followed by a screening of his film, Spirits of the Land.