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
In the U.S., black leisure and tourism have long been used to resist entrenched systemic racism. Prof. Elizabeth Patton (UMBC) uses photographs, documentary films, and guidebooks, advertisements, and personal home movies to shed light on the multifaceted ways African Americans harnessed media and cultural memory to document leisure.
A poetry reading and conversation on women, home, exile, and identity featuring poet-scholar and activist Saba Hamzah.
Presentation on the history of classical Arabic scripts like Thuluth and Naskh. Students will have a chance to practice Arabic letter art with reed pens during the workshop.
Come out to our Professor-Student mixer to network within the program, learn about Africana Studies courses, and build and engage with the community! Food and beverages will be provided.
Film Professor Mia Mask examines the African American Western hero within the larger context of film history by considering how Black westerns evolved.
Campus community only, please.
Learn about the ways in which interlocking systems of oppression impact the lives of individuals navigating them. Reception to follow. This event will be livestreamed.
Campus community only, please.
In this Concert entitled Wajd—the ecstatic, blissful state induced by poetry and music—the Tarab Ensemble will perform selections of the Arabic Sufi repertoire.
Chelle Barbour’s multidisciplinary art practice reimagines the body of the Black female through the lens of Afro-Surrealism. Barbour’s morning talk will be followed by an evening reception.
Dr. James R. Jones, Director of the Center on Politics and Race in America at Rutgers University–Newark, will discuss how white supremacy diffuses from Congress through law, politics, and everyday social life.
A Matthew Vassar Lecture, panel discussion, and workshops by syndicated Black cartoonist and children’s book illustrator Jerry Craft, who will discuss his graphic novel New Kid—and how the text has been weaponized and banned from some libraries and classrooms across the country.