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

The Woodson's annual "Meet the Fellows" event showcases the current research projects of our residential pre-and post-doctoral fellows. For a full list of the current Woodson Fellows, including each fellow's project title and bio, visit the Carter G. Woodson Institute website: https://woodson.as.virginia.edu/woodson-fellows

A roundtable discussion on Jarvis R. Givens new book: Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching. Panelists include Francille Wilson, University of Southern California; Pero Dagbovie, Michigan State University. The event was moderated by Derrick Alridge, University of Virginia

Anchored by Khalil Muhammad, Executive Director of the Schomburg Center in Black Culture (of the New York Public Library), the forum, titled "Engaging Race:  On Violence, Citizenship, and Social Justice,” is inspired by recent events in Charleston, South Carolina.  But the Charleston massacre is but one catalyst for engaging a range of issues emerging in its wake.  Among these, by no means new to this hour, are:  the underreported escalation of black church burnings over the last several weeks, the controversy surrounding the Confederate flag, and the unabated instances