This panel discussion, "The Politics of the Debt Ceiling Crisis," held at the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia was free and open to the public. 

Organized by Deborah McDowell (Alice Griffin Professor of English and Director of the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies), Kim Forde-Mazrui (William S.

Organized by faculty members in the Departments of English (Deborah McDowell), History (Claudrena Harold) and Politics (Vesla Weaver), this multi-disciplinary symposium, sponsored by the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies, will examine the historical, political, economic, and socio-cultural roots, as well as the myriad implications of the rise in incarceration in the United States.

Participants include:

Keynote Lecture by Mahmood Mamdani for the Religion and Democracy on the African Continent Conference. The two-day event featured scholars of Africana Studies, Religious Studies, Anthropology, History, Sociology, Law, and Politics, who shared their expertise on religion and democracy, its colonial legacies and post-colonial possibilities. 

Book talk for Kwame E. Otu's first monograph: Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana

Our annual event returns to an in-person format for the first time since 2019! Join us to learn about the work of the new and returning Woodson fellows. Each fellow will provide a brief overview of their current research project.

The Conversations in Caribbean Studies series presents a series of panels and roundtables in honor of the 20th anniversary of Prof. Carnegie’s book: Postnationalism Prefigured: Caribbean Borderlands

A "Conversations in Caribbean Studies" Book Chat with Faith Smith Faith L Smith (Brandeis University). We're celebrating the publication of her new book, Strolling in the Ruins: The Caribbean’s Non-sovereign Modern in the Early Twentieth Century 

On February 22nd, 2023, the Julian Bond Papers Project will officially launch its project website. The project, working in partnership with UVA’s Center for Digital Editing, is in its second year of grant funding from the U.S. National Archives National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).

Our annual event returns on Wednesday, October 4th! Join us to learn about the work of the new and returning Woodson fellows. Each fellow will provide a brief overview of their current research project.