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
Past Events
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.
Join scholar Khaled Beydoun for a small group discussion. Breakfast will be served.
Campus community only, please.
Join scholar Ken Stern for a small group discussion on antisemitism and hate. Lunch will be served. RSVP is required.
Campus community only, please.
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.
Associate Professor of Law, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University Khaled Beydoun and Director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate, legal scholar Ken Stern will engage in a moderated dialogue with Associate Professor of Religion Kirsten Wesselhoeft about Islamophobia, antisemitism, free speech/expression and hate. This event is open to the public. Vassar attendees will need to show their ID. Non-Vassar attendees will need to register.
Vassar Randolph Fellow Professor Sa'ed Atshan will moderate this panel with Swarthmore College Professor Tariq al-Jamil and University of Michigan Professor Su'ad Abdul Khabeer on the diverse experiences of Black Americans. They will reflect on questions around race and faith, Blackness, cultural production, political consciousness, and civic engagement among African American Muslims. The panel will be followed by an Iftar and this is open to the entire Vassar community, all are welcome! Please RSVP.
Campus community only, please.