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.
65 years ago this week, Edwin Walker helped enforce Little Rock integration. Then he devoted himself to segregation.
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.
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:
Keynote Lecture by Mahmood Mamdani for the Religion and Democracy on the African Continent Conference.
Book launch event:
Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of
Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana
Wednesday, October 5th
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Minor Hall 110 (reception to follow)
Our annual event returns to an in-person format on Wednesday, October 5th! 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.
Topics range from the concept of night-time in Lagos, Nigeria to sensual worldmaking in literature written by diasporic black queer subjects; from the anti-fascist tradition within black freedom movements to boxing in colonial Zimbabwe.