2019 marks the 15th-anniversary of the publication of Laurent Dubois’s Avengers of the New World (2004), the first narrative history of the Haitian Revolution to be published in the English language since the landmark appearance of C.L.R. James’s The Black Jacobins in 1938. Dubois' book heralded a new era of interest in the Haitian Revolution among Anglophone scholars.

African Studies Colloquium Series presentation by Kwame E. Otu. 

Phonographic Memories is the first book to perform a sustained analysis of the narrative and thematic influence of Caribbean popular music on the Caribbean novel. Tracing a region-wide attention to the deep connections between music and memory in the work of Lawrence Scott, Oscar Hijuelos, Colin Channer, Daniel Maximin, and Ramabai Espinet, Njelle Hamilton tunes in to each novel's soundtrack while considering the broader listening cultures that sustain collective memory and situate Caribbean subjects in specific localities.

A Currents in Conversation event discussing the widely popular film "Judas and the Black Messiah."  

Panelists include:

• Lynn French, former Black Panther Party member
• Mary Phillips, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, Lehman College, CUNY
• A.D. Carson, Assistant Professor of Hip-Hop and the Global South,
• UVA Moderated by Kwame E. Otu, Assistant Professor of African-American and African Studies, UVA