Lectures and Events
The Africana Studies Program offers lecture and other programming funds. If you’re planning an event, fill out and return the Programming Funds Request Form.
Events
Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, the first researcher to explore the full depths of Audre Lorde’s manuscript archives, will give a talk on her new book, Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. Open to the public.
Nicole Holliday, Acting Associate Professor of Linguistics at UC Berkeley, will present her latest research on how tone-detection systems and digital voice assistants like Siri and Alexa reinforce linguistic and racial bias.
This event is open to the public.
Past Events
By situating racism and capitalism as interlocking systems of dispossession and displacement, University of Toronto Associate Professor of Sociology Prentiss Dantzler brings the “housing question” into perspective as a way to understand broader calls for reparative justice.
Novuyo Tshuma will give a lecture and read excerpts from her novel Digging Stars.
A panel discussion moderated by Dr. Sa’ed Atshan, 2024–2025 Randolph Fellow in Peace, Conflict, and the Middle East, featuring Professors Tagreed Al-Haddad and Candace Lukasik.
Campus community only, please.
A book talk with award-winning Syrian writer Shahla Ujayli and translator Michelle Hartman.
Campus community only, please.
Sociologist and author Jennifer Patrice Sims will discuss common perceptions about racism and describe the types of personal, peer group, and university-level efforts that are needed to reject fallacies and promote critical thinking during college and beyond. This event is open to the public.
A professor-student mixer to learn about Africana Studies courses, network with Africana Studies professors, hear from current students, and to build community.
Campus community only, please. RSVP required.
A talk by Rhiana Gunn-Wright, a Senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and chief policy architect of the Green New Deal—a policy framework that puts justice at the center of climate action.
Author Catherine Tan, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Vassar College, will be sharing her book, Spaces on the Spectrum: How Autism Movements Resist Experts and Create Knowledge. Reception to follow.
This lecture by Dr. Heba Gowayed, Associate Professor of Sociology at Hunter College (CUNY), will explore the marketplace between migrants, smugglers, and states.
This lecture by Dr. Fumilayo Showers, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies at the University of Connecticut, will explore race, the state, and the many African immigrants laboring in U.S. health care.