The Carter G. Woodson Institute | for African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia

Spring 2022 Undergraduate Courses

AFRICAN AMERICAN AND AFRICAN STUDIES PROGRAM

AAS 1020 Introduction to African American and African Studies II

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Welcome to the Woodson: video tour of Minor Hall

Global Black Studies Across Grounds

Global Black Studies Across Grounds
a social event bringing black studies scholars and students together for conversation and refreshments

Conversations in Caribbean Studies presents: Word. Sound. Power. A listening session in honor of Lee "Scratch" Perry

Following the death of the pioneering dub musician, Lee "Scratch" Perry, this panel brings together leading Jamaican and international dub/’Scratch’ Perry scholars, producers and musicians who have worked with him and whose work is inspired by him. In the lead up to the event, be sure to check out the Spotify playlist curated by the panelists.

Panelists include:

Conversations in Caribbean Studies Book Chat with Carmen Lamas

Conversations in Caribbean Studies Book Chat with Carmen Lamas, author of The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas: Literature, Translation, and Historiography (Oxford UP, 2021). Respondent: Marissa Lopez (UCLA), author of Racial Immanence: Chicanx Bodies beyond Representation (NYU Press, 2019).

Conversations in Caribbean Studies Book Chat with Robert Fatton Jr.

Conversations in Caribbean Studies Book Chat with Robert Fatton, Jr., author of The Guise of the Exceptionalism: Unmasking the National Narratives of Haiti and the United States (Rutgers UP, 2021). Respondent: Chelsea Stieber (Catholic University of America), author of Haiti’s Paper War: Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804–1954 (NYU Press, 2020).

African Colloquium Series: Robert Trent Vinson (UVA)

November 17: Robert Trent Vinson (Director, Carter G. Woodson Institute, The University of Virginia) will present "Rapping Zulus: Afrika Bambaataa, the Universal Zulu Nation, and the Global Spread of Progressive Hip-Hop Cultures." His talk will also give the ASC community the chance to meet the new Director of the Carter G. Woodson Institute of African-American and African Studies.

African Colloquium Series: Elyan Hill (Southern Methodist University)

November 10: Elyan Hill (Department of Art History, Southern Methodist University) will deliver a talk titled “Altars in Motion: Embodied Visualities in Togolese Sacred Arts,” which explores how contemporary Ewe altars and dance in Togo honor enslaved ancestors, and reenact histories of trade and forced migration.

African Colloquium Series: Solange Ashby (UCLA)

October 20: Solange Ashby (Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA) will discuss her work on deep African history, centering Ancient Nubia to better understand ancient and classical Egyptian, Greek, and Roman religious histories.

African Studies Colloquium Series: Allen F. Isaacman & Barbara S. Isaacman

October 13: Allen F. Isaacman & Barbara S. Isaacman (Department of History, University of Minnesota; and a retired criminal defense attorney, respectively) will speak about the activism and research that led to their recent book, Mozambique’s Samora Machel: A Life Cut Short.