Tue., Sep. 9, 4-6 pm
African American Studies Opening Reception with talk by Dr. Mark Auslander: “Much has passed I have not told”: African Americans at the Smithsonian, 1848-1990
Anthropologist Prof. Mark Auslander (Central Washington University) shares discoveries from his current research on African Americans at the Smithsonian Institution.
Location: African American Studies Program Building, 138 Mountfort Street, Brookline
Fri., Sep. 19, 5-6:30 pm
Alumni Weekend Event — “Naming and Remembering: The First Africans in America”
The African American Studies Program, BU Community members, and Golden Decade members will be reading the names of the first African Americans who were transported from Atlantic Africa and endured enslavement during the first sixty years in British and Dutch America, and who established the foundations of African Diasporic communities
Location: African American Studies Program Building, 138 Mountfort Street, Brookline
Mon., Oct. 20, 5:15 pm
“Black and Latino Coalitions from the 1960s to Today”
Panel Discussion with Felix Arroyo, Political Activist, Candidate, and Coalition Partner , Hardin Coleman, Dean, BU School of Education, and Frederick Douglass Opie, Professor of History and Foodways at Babson College
Location: BU Hillel House, Conservative Chapel, 213 Bay State Road, Boston, MA
Tue., Oct.28, 5 pm
“Between Translation and Conversion: Missionary Images of Kongo and Angola”
Cécile Fromont, Assistant Professor of Art History University of Chicago
Location: African American Studies Program Building, 138 Mountfort Street, Brookline Poster
Tue., Nov. 11, 5 pm
“Engaging Domestic Audiences on US Foreign Policy Issues”
Karen Richardson, Senior Advisor, Bureau of Public Affairs, U.S. Department of State
Location: African American Studies Program Building, 138 Mountfort Street, Brookline
Tue., Nov. 18, 5:30 pm (Please note later start time)
“Slavery and Africa in Brazilian Public and Popular Memory”
Ana Lucia Araújo, Professor of History at Howard University. The first in a series of “Conversations on Slavery, Memory and Culture: the Making of Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Society”.
Sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities, Latin American Studies Program, and the African American Studies Program.
Location: GSU Terrace Lounge, 775 Commonwealth Ave., 2nd Floor GSU, Boston
Tue., Dec. 2, 5 pm
“Freedom Summer: Yesterday and Today”
James Marshall, Author of Student Activism and Civil Rights in Mississippi: Protest Politics and the Struggle for Racial Justice, 1960-1965
Location: African American Studies Program Building, 138 Mountfort Street, Brookline
Thu., Dec. 11, 5-6:30 pm
African American Studies Program Holiday Party
Location: African American Studies Program Building, 138 Mountfort Street, Brookline