Fall 2021 Undergraduate Course
African American and African Studies Program
AAS 1010 Introduction to African American and African Studies
Robert Vinson, Tu Th 12:30-1:45pm
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Welcome to the Woodson: video tour of Minor Hall
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.
African Studies Colloquium Series: Anita Plummer (Howard University)
September 22: Anita Plummer (Department of African Studies, Howard University) will deliver a talk titled “Kenya, China, and the Online Public Sphere,” about how virtual spaces enable non-elite Kenyans to respond to large-scale Chinese fishing operations off the Kenyan coast.
Ashon Crawley's art exhibition "Enunciated Life" reviewed by KCRW
Marlene Daut provides expert analysis during Haiti's recent political upheaval
Marlene Daut shared her expert insights following the Haitian President's assassination. Daut featured in virtually every media imaginable: newspapers, podcasts, T.V. interviews. Below are a list of her appearances and publications:
https://www.wortfm.org/digging-into-haitian-history-with-marlene-daut/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/10/world/americas/haiti-us-troops-opposi...
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