Book Launch event for Professor Kwame E. Otu
Book launch event:
Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of
Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana
Black Studies across Grounds Reception
Meet the Fellows 2022
Wednesday, October 5th
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Minor Hall 110 (reception to follow)
Our annual event returns to an in-person format on Wednesday, October 5th! Join us to learn about the work of the new and returning Woodson fellows. Each fellow will provide a brief overview of their current research project.
Topics range from the concept of night-time in Lagos, Nigeria to sensual worldmaking in literature written by diasporic black queer subjects; from the anti-fascist tradition within black freedom movements to boxing in colonial Zimbabwe.
Start of the Semester
Haitian Revolutionary Fictions
Black Patience
AAS Diploma Ceremony 2022
For information about the 2022 AAS Diploma ceremony, please see the following page:
https://woodson.as.virginia.edu/aas-diploma-ceremony
Religion and Democracy on the African Continent: Colonial Legacies and Postcolonial Possibilities
Join us for a two-day virtual conference, featuring scholars of Africana Studies, Religious Studies, Anthropology, History, Sociology, Law, and Politics, who will share their expertise on religion and democracy on the African continent.
Woodson Institute welcomes seven new residential fellows into class of 2024 cohort
Each year since 1981, the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies has welcomed a collection of pre-doctoral and postdoctoral fellows into the institute’s Residential Fellows program.
Ashon Crawley awarded a Crossroads Art Fellowship at Princeton University
Crawley's fellowship project will create an immersive sound installation honoring musicians in Black churches that died of AIDS complications in the 1980s and '90s.
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