Wed., Feb 4 at 3 pm “African Americans and Foreign Policy” – Book launch and reception
Ambassador Charles R. Stith, Prof Linda Heywood, Prof Emeritus Allison Blakely, and Dr. Joshua Core Yesnowitz
The Delegate’s Lounge, US Department of State, Washington D.C.
FEB FILM SERIES celebrating Black History Month
Tue., Feb 3 at 5 pm African American Studies Film Series: “Hallelujah!” Director, King Vidor
Dr. Mary Anne Boelcskevy, Sr. Lecturer in African American Studies at Boston University
Location: African American Studies Program,138 Mountfort Street, Brookline
Tue., Feb 17 at 5 pm African American Studies Film Series: “Bronze Buckaroo” Director, Richard C. Kahn
Dr. Mary Anne Boelcskevy, Sr. Lecturer in African American Studies at Boston University
Location: African American Studies Program, 138 Mountfort Street, Brookline
Tue., March 3 at 5 pm African American Studies Film Series: “Stormy Weather” Director, Andrew L. Stone
Dr. Mary Anne Boelcskevy, Sr. Lecturer in African American Studies at Boston University
Location: African American Studies Program, 138 Mountfort Street, Brookline
Tue., March 17 at 5 pm “Slavery, Conquest and the Rise of the American College”
Craig Wilder, Professor of History, MIT
Location: African American Studies Program, 138 Mountfort Street, Brookline
Thu., March 19 at 5 pm “African & American: West Africans in Post-Civil Rights America”
Talk and book signing followed by a reception with Marilyn Halter, BU Professor of History
Location: Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs at BU, 10 Lenox Street, Brookline.
Tue., April 7 at 5 pm – 7 pm “50 Years Later: A Discussion on Voting Rights and Mass Incarceration in 2015”?
African American Studies student panel discussion with Gina Physic (GRS ‘15), Art Gordon (STH ‘16), and Sheneese Thompson (GRS ‘15), Rosa Otieno (CAS ’15)
Location: 745 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA School of Theology, Room STH B19
Thu., April 16 at 5:30 pm “African Americans and Foreign Policy” – Book launch and reception
Location: African Presidential Archives Research Center, 141 Bay State Road, Boston, MA
Tue., April 28 at 5 pm “African Slaveowners in Ninetenth-Century Bahia, Brazil”
João Jose Reis, Professor Universidade Federal de Bahia, Brazil
The second event of a three part series “Conversations on Slavery, Memory and Culture: the Making of Afro-Brazilian Society” supported by the BU Center for the Humanities and the Latin American Studies Program.
Location: PHO 206 Photonics Building 8 St. Mary’s Street Boston, MA
Tue., May 5 at 6 pm “Cuba-Angola: In Search of Cuban Nationalism and Foreign Policy”
Joint Presentation by Mariem Marquetti (CAS ‘18) and Dr. Linda Heywood, Professor of History at
Boston University
Location: African American Studies Program, 138 Mountfort Street, Brookline
Sat., May 16 at 4 pm African American Studies Convocation
Convocation Address- The Honorable Leslie Harris (GRS ’74), Vocal Performance by Genithia Hogges (GRS ’13), Presentation of AFAM MA diplomas and Essay Contest Prizes. A reception will follow the ceremony.
Location: African American Studies Program, 138 Mountfort Street, Brookline