To Joy My Freedom: A Symposium on Black Feminist Histories
December 1-2, 2017
Minor Hall
To Joy My Freedom: A Symposium on Black Feminist Histories
Contemporarity in Africa: Feminist Perspectives on an Alternative Future
The African Studies Colloquium Series Presents “Contemporarity in Africa: Feminist Perspectives on an Alternative Future” Professor Patricia McFadden
Meet the Fellows 2017
Minor Hall 110
Video from the annual event "Meet the Fellows" to welcome new members of the Carter G. Woodson's distinguished fellowship program. During the 2017 Meet the Fellows event, the Carter G. Woodson Institute also celebrated its new departmental status.
"Keep the Movement Coming On:" A Symposium in Memory of Julian Bond
"Keep the Movement Coming On:" A Symposium in Memory of Julian Bond
October 20 - 21, 2016
Engaging Race: The Race Tax: Economic Predation in Black America
The Virginia Roots of Today's Radical Right & the Crisis of American Democracy
The Virginia Roots of Today's Radical Right & the Crisis of American Democracy
Clark Hall Room 108
In a presentation co-sponsored by the Department of History, the Power, Violence, and Inequality Collective, and the American Studies Program, Nancy MacLean, the William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University, discusses her new book "Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America."
Engaging Race: Black Girls Matter
November 12, 2015
Panel: the Politics of the Debt Ceiling Crisis
This panel discussion, "The Politics of the Debt Ceiling Crisis," held at the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia was free and open to the public.
Does Reparations Have a Future? Rethinking Racial Justice in a 'Color-Blind' Era
Organized by Deborah McDowell (Alice Griffin Professor of English and Director of the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies), Kim Forde-Mazrui (William S.
The Problem of Punishment: Race, Inequality and Justice
Organized by faculty members in the Departments of English (Deborah McDowell), History (Claudrena Harold) and Politics (Vesla Weaver), this multi-disciplinary symposium, sponsored by the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies, will examine the historical, political, economic, and socio-cultural roots, as well as the myriad implications of the rise in incarceration in the United States.
Participants include: