Professor Linda Heywood’s lecture on Njinga of Angola in Lisbon, Portugal, TODAY May 9th
For more information on the event, please visit the following link: Centro de Historia
Professor Linda Heywood’s Fall 2018 Course Offering: AA380, European Dimensions of the Black Diaspora T/Th 3:30-4:45pm
Prof Michael Birenbaum Quintero’s New Course for Summer I, MH331: The Poetics and Politics of Hip Hop
New Course by Professor Michael Birenbaum Quintero: The Poetics and Politics of Hip Hop May 22, 2018 to June 29, 2018, T/Th 1-4:30pm Description: Provides students with a history of hip hop music, including major trends, changes in technique and musicianship, important artists and albums, regional styles, and relationship with the larger sociocultural context of […]
Director Louis Chude-Sokei plus The Otolith Group in Manchester, UK on 4/21
Louis Chude-Sokei plus The Otolith Group, April 21, 2018 in Marina’s Cinema, Manchester, UK Part of: Louis Henderson: Echoes , Louis Henderson: Overtures , ¡Viva! Spanish & Latin American Festival 2018 “Visiting speaker from The University of Boston, Louis Chude-Sokei, will address racial identity and cultural appropriation using the work of Edouard Glissant, a black author from Martinique who wrote the […]
Director Louis Chude-Sokei in “Tracing Roots and Breaking Ground in Sonic Afromodernity” in Berlin, Germany 4/29
“Tracing Roots and Breaking Ground in Sonic Afromodernity” Speakers: Louis Chude-Sokei, Chris Johnson, Cheryl Keyes and Martin Munro Moderated by Christina Wheeler When: April 29, 2018 “It doesn’t have a damn thing to do with Africa”, stated legendary jazz-drummer Art Blakey in 1971. While renowned for implementing Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Cuban rhythm patterns in his recordings, […]
Upcoming Lecture (4/17) – Global Blackness: Representing Polyvalence in the Diaspora
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MLK, 50 Years Later: BU Community Reflects on Civil Rights Leader’s Legacy
Check out this incredible article featuring commentary from AFAM Director Louis Chude-Sokei.
Professor Louis Chude-Sokei’s Talk on Afrofuturism
Enter Afrofuturism | Louis Chude-Sokei: Bashment Futurities Enter Afrofuturism, 7-12 November 2017 | Inside & Outside the OCC | Talks, discussions and workshop “As a term, Afrofuturism appeared in the 90s to describe an Afro-American artistic movement which had found expression in sci-fi, fantasy literature, music, the visual arts, comics and movies. Today, it is […]
Global Blackness: Representing Polyvalence in the Diaspora
Make sure you all come out to hear Michelle Wright speak about blackness within the global diaspora March 13th from 5-6:30pm! Michelle M. Wright:Michelle M. Wright is the Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Professor of English at Emory University, where she teaches classes in African Diaspora Studies and African American Studies. She is the author of Becoming […]