In May 2026, the Woodson, in partnership with the Department of English will host an academic conference and retirement celebration in honor of Deborah E. McDowell. Register and reserve hotel reservations via the link below.
Robert Trent Vinson presented at an event sponsored by WNYC at The Apollo theater in Harlem, NYC for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: "MLK26: The Pan-Africanist — Restitution & Reconciliation in a Global State of Emergency."
Guilherme Lemos, a Woodson post-doctoral fellow, organized an event focused on capoeira, which featured in UVA Today: ‘Body, space and memory’: Capoeira comes to Grounds
On Friday, January 23rd the Woodson hosted a day-long symposium focused on the life and legacy of Reginald D. Butler, marking the publication of his influential, but never published manuscript, The Evolution of a Rural Free Black Community: Goochland County, Virginia, 1728-1832 (University of Virginia Press, 2025).
Over the course of its 40 year history, the Woodson Institute has advanced African American and African Studies around the world by transforming the professoriate, training the next generation of scholars, and educating the general public about issues of race, social justice, and inequality.
