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Caribbean Borderlands: Postnationalism Prefigured @20
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
Meet the Fellows: 2022
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.
Amphibious Subjects: Book Talk
Book talk for Kwame E. Otu's first monograph: Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana
ASC with Mxolisi Mchunu (POSTPONED)
African Studies Colloquium Series event with Mxolisi Mchunu
Mchunu published the book Violence and Solace: The Natal Civil War in Late-Apartheid South Africa through UVA Press. At the event, copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing by the author.
For more on the publication and Mchunu:
Ashon Crawley is 2022 Mellon Fellow in Urban Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks
Titled “in search of our mothers’ gardens” the project is based on Alice Walker’s essay of the same name in which she discusses the way her mother's garden was a space of radiance, repair, refuge
Anna Duensing, post-doctoral fellow, publishes op-ed in WashPo's "Made By History" blog
65 years ago this week, Edwin Walker helped enforce Little Rock integration. Then he devoted himself to segregation.
African Studies Colloquium Series: Ebony Coletu
Ebony Coletu is a scholar and writer based in Philadelphia and Accra. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University. As a Fulbright Scholar in Ghana she researched back-to-Africa initiatives led by Gold Coasters between 1898-1928. She also stages public memorials and conversations about little-known girls and women born in Ghana who died abroad in the name of a cause. Her current book project, Relentless Returns, chronicles a linked series of African invitations for diasporic return and investment in the early days of pan-Africanism.
Caribbean Borderlands:
Please join us as the Conversations in Caribbean Studies presents
"Caribbean Borderlands: Postnationalism Prefigured @20”
Friday October 7, 2022; 10am-12 noon
Bryan Hall 229
Featuring panels and roundtables in honor of the 20th anniversary of Prof. Carnegie’s book:
Mahmood Mamdani: Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities
Keynote Lecture by Mahmood Mamdani for the Religion and Democracy on the African Continent Conference.
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