Professor Margarita Guillory Featured in BU Today Article
AFAM Studies Professor Margarita Guillory was recently featured in a BU Today article discussing one of her courses, CAS AA 296/CAS RN 296: Religion and Hip Hop. The article, titled “This Could Be the Coolest Religion Class You Ever Take,” includes interviews with Dr. Guillory, a teaching fellow, and a current student. “Professor Guillory gives […]
Professor André de Quadros featured in The Brink Article
BU AFAM Studies affiliated faculty member and professor of music André de Quadros was recently featured in an article from The Brink, “Human Rights Activist and Music Educator André de Quadros Recognized for Career Dedicated to Justice and the Arts.” In this Q&A-style interview, de Quadros discusses topics including teaching music to incarcerated persons, co-leading […]
BU Sociology Professor Jessica Simes Releases Book on Mass Imprisonment
In Punishing Places, Jessica Simes demonstrates that our highest imprisonment rates are now in small cities, suburbs, and rural areas. This book presents novel measures for estimating the community-level effects of incarceration using spatial, quantitative, and qualitative methods. Punishing Places has broad and urgent implications for policy reforms aimed at ameliorating the community effects of […]
Save the Date: American Studies for the Future
Please join us next semester for “American Studies for the Future,” a series of seminars and lectures hosted by the American & New England Studies Program. The evening lectures will be accessible both in person and remotely via Zoom. They will be held on the 4th floor of the Hillel Center, 213 Bay State Road. […]
New Course: CFA MH 731: Music and the Black Radical Tradition
Professor Michael Birenbaum Quintero is launching a new course next semester, Spring 2022. CFA MH 731 / 831: Music & the Black Radical Tradition will explore the intertwined relationship between the Black liberation struggle in the Americas and Black cultural production in music. No prior musical knowledge is required for this course. (Note: PhD and […]
Upcoming Virtual Event: Dr. Patrice Rankine, University of Chicago
Join us Wednesday, December 1st at 5:30 PM EST, 2021 for a virtual discussion with Professor Patrice Rankine, Department of Classics, University of Chicago Professor Rankine is the author of Ulysses in Black: Ralph Ellison, Classicism, and African American Literature. We invite all students and faculty to read his article prior to the event: “The […]
AFAM Studies minor Mya Ison’s play premieres this weekend
Laure, Written by Mya Ison (CFA ’22, minor in African American Studies), Directed by Gigi Juras (CFA ’22) Laure is a play in response to the painting “Olympia” by Manet (1865), imagining that the Black model, Laure, was not erased from the archive. By adapting themes from the “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar […]
Louis Chude-Sokei to give University Lecture postponed to March 2022
Postponed to March 2022. Details to come! This year’s distinguished lecturer for the 2021 University Lecture is Louis Chude-Sokei, Professor of English, George and Joyce Wein Chair in African American Studies, and Director of the African American Studies Program. Beneath and Beyond Human: Race and Technology Between Singularities Louis Chude-Sokei Professor of English; George and […]
Prof. Louis Chude-Sokei at “The Sound of Distance” festival in Berlin
AFAM Studies Director Louis Chude-Sokei participated in the The Sound of Distance festival in Berlin, Germany, last month. The festival, which occurred October 21–24, was hosted by Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), a cultural institute that specializes in international contemporary arts. “Sound significantly determines the spatial perception of things and events. Sound waves are […]
Louis Chude-Sokei to give 2021 University Lecture
Postponed to March 2022. Details to come! This year’s distinguished lecturer for the 2021 University Lecture is Louis Chude-Sokei, Professor of English, George and Joyce Wein Chair in African American Studies, and Director of the African American Studies Program. Beneath and Beyond Human: Race and Technology Between Singularities Louis Chude-Sokei Professor of English; George and […]