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Caribbean Borderlands: Postnationalism Prefigured @20

The Conversations in Caribbean Studies series presents a series of panels and roundtables in honor of the 20th anniversary of Prof.

Meet the Fellows: 2022

Our annual event returns to an in-person format for the first time since 2019! 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.

Amphibious Subjects: Book Talk

Book talk for Kwame E. Otu's first monograph: Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana

Mahmood Mamdani: Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities

Keynote Lecture by Mahmood Mamdani for the Religion and Democracy on the African Continent Conference.

Word. Sound. Power. A listening session in honor of Lee "Scratch" Perry

Following the death of the pioneering dub musician, Lee "Scratch" Perry, this panel brings together scholars and musicians who have worked with him

Meet the Fellows 2021

The Woodson's annual "Meet the Fellows" event showcases the current research projects of our residential pre-and post-doctoral fellows.

Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching

A roundtable discussion on Jarvis R. Givens new book: Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching.

Currents in Conversation: Judas and the Black Messiah

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

Julian Bond's Time To Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement

Panel discussion on the book launch "Julian Bond's Time To Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement"

Meet the Fellows 2020

During the Woodson Institute's annual event "Meet the Fellows," we welcome new pre-doctoral and post-doctoral fellows to the fellowship program

Reading Julian Bond Panel Discussion

As a virtual edition of our annual "Transcribe-a-thon," this panel culminated a day-long program in which participants read Julian Bond's speeches.

Reading Sula: A Tribute to Toni Morrison

'Reading Sula: A Tribute to Toni Morrison' brought together volunteers to read Toni Morrison’s second novel “Sula.”

 

Njelle Hamilton Book Launch Panel

Phonographic Memories is the first book to perform a sustained analysis of the narrative and thematic influence of Caribbean popular music

Meet the Fellows 2019

The 2019 edition of our annual "Meet the Fellows" event was hosted in Minor 110

African Studies Colloquium Series: "Impossible Frontiers" by Kwame E. Otu

African Studies Colloquium Series presentation by Kwame E. Otu. 

Interrogating Digital Blackness Keynote: André Brock

Keynote address by André Brock, Associate Professor of Media Studies at Georgia Tech, for the Interrogating Digital Blackness symposium

Conversations in Caribbean Studies Colloquium: Legacies of "the New World Avenger" 

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

Listening Roundtable on A.D. Carson's "SLEEPWALKING 2 [a mixtape/e/ssay | OTR]"

Listening roundtable discussion on A.D. Carson's mixtape e/ssay, OTR

Notes on the State Launch Party

Launch party for the Woodson's podcast series on Thomas Jefferson

Race on the Road in the Automotive Age, Mia Bay

Lecture by Mia Bay Professor in American History at the University of Pennsylvania

Slavery Since Emancipation Series: Susan Burton

This final event of the Slavery Since Emancipation Series with Susan Burton

Currents in Conversation: The Prison Strike and the Carceral State

Currents in Conversation series on the Nationwide Prison Strike, which took place across 13 states from August 21 - September 9, 2018

Meet the Fellows 2018

During the Woodson Institute's annual event "Meet the Fellows," we welcome new pre-doctoral and post-doctoral fellows to the institute

Enduring Questions, New Methods

April 2018 Conference on Haitian Studies 

August in Perspective

The 'Creative Responses to #Charlottesville' event series was organized in the aftermath of August 11th and 12th to provide a space for healing through creative expression

Currents in Conversation: Race, Racism, and Immigration

Currents in Conversation Series event brought together Woodson Professors to discuss and contextualize President Trump's 2018 immigration ban

To Joy My Freedom: A Symposium on Black Feminist Histories

December 2017 Symposium on Tera Hunter's groundbreaking book To Joy My Freedom: Black Women’s Lives and Labors after the Civil War

Contemporarity in Africa: Feminist Perspectives on an Alternative Future

African Studies Colloquium presentation by Professor Patricia McFadden

The Virginia Roots of Today's Radical Right & the Crisis of American Democracy

Nancy MacLean discusses her new book "Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America"

Meet the Fellows 2017

During the 2017 Meet the Fellows event, the Carter G. Woodson Institute welcomed new fellows and celebrated its new departmental status.

"Keep the Movement Coming On:" A Symposium in Memory of Julian Bond

"Keep the Movement Coming On" is a multi-disciplinary symposium organized in remembrance of Julian Bond

Meet the Fellows 2016

Video from the annual event "Meet the Fellows" to welcome new members of the Carter G. Woodson's distinguished fellowship program.

Engaging Race: The Race Tax: Economic Predation in Black America

Currents in Conversation series on economic injustice in America

Engaging Race: Black Girls Matter

Currents in conversations series on the new report: "Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced and Underprotected"

Engaging Race: On Violence, Citizenship, and Social Justice

Anchored by Khalil Muhammad, Executive Director of the Schomburg Center in Black Culture (of the New York Public Library), the forum, titled "Engag

Does Reparations Have a Future? Rethinking Racial Justice in a 'Color-Blind' Era 

Major symposium on the question of reparations organized in 2013

Panel: the Politics of the Debt Ceiling Crisis

Panel Discussion on the debt ceiling 

"Is Public School 'Choice" Good for the Black Community?" Professor Mary Pattillo

"Choice" has become the buzz word across the policy spectrum, especially in housing, schools, and health care.

30th Anniversary Symposium: African American and African Studies at Work in the World 

We at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies are excited to celebrate our Thirtieth Anniversary.

The Problem of Punishment: Race, Inequality and Justice

Major symposium on the burgeoning field of carceral studies organized in 2009


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