AFAM MINORS DINNER NOVEMBER 3, 2017
Clockwise from left: Devin Harvin, Ashley Gordon, Hafzat Akanni, Hodan Hashi, Kristin John, Lynae Bogues (AFAM MA candidate), Donovan Young, AFAM Program Director Dr. Chude-Sokei, Casey Phanor (AFAM MA candidate), AFAM Undergraduate Director Dr. Boelcskevy, Niyamani Watson, Rachel Edwards, Maya Williams, Unity Jean-Louis, Adia Turner, and Ashley Griffin (photographer, pictured below) ….. AFAM MINORS […]
Dr. Louis Chude-Sokei’s will give a talk on “Bashment Futurities” at the Onassis Cultural Center in Athens, Greece for the “Enter Afrofuturism” event on Nov. 11th
For more info on the conference, you can visit this webpage: http://www.sgt.gr/eng/SPG1955/
Spring 2018 Course: Afro-futurism, Black Science Fiction and Fantasy with Professor Chude-Sokei
CAS EN 327 A1 Afro-futurism, Black Science Fiction and Fantasy —Louis Chude-Sokei (Topics Course) Monday, Wednesday, and Friday; from 11:15am – 12:05pm in MCS B25 Pre-req: one EN literature course or junior or senior standing. You can petition for this to count towards the AFAM Studies Minor In the last two decades we have been […]
Professor Linda Heywood’s upcoming talk at the Library of Congress on “Queen Njinga’s Diplomacy: Written and Performed” Nov 9th
Thursday, November 9, 2017, noon – 1 p.m. Book Talk: “Queen Njinga’s Diplomacy: Written and Performed” by Linda Heywood The African Section of the African and Middle Eastern Division at the Library of Congress invites you to a book talk, “Queen Njinga’s Diplomacy: Written and Performed,” by Linda Heywood. Dr. Heywood is Professor of African […]
Spring 2018 Course: Salsa, Music & Culture with Professor Birenbaum Quintero
CFA MH 563: Salsa, Music & Culture Prof. Michael Birenbaum Quintero, Wednesdays at 2:30-5:15 in 808 Commonwealth B36 Open to all BU students Trying to define salsa is a formidable task. Tito Puente famously hated the term, which he described as a kind of sauce that comes in a jar. A broader definition would note […]
Whose Streets?: A Film Screening & Conversation
Join us, and other departments and initiatives across Boston University, for a screening of the film Whose Streets? followed by a panel discussion with filmmaker Damon Davis, Phillipe Copeland – School of Social Work, Ashley Farmer – History and African American Studies, CAS, and Pamela Lightsey – School of Theology, moderated by Jessica Simes – Sociology. RSVP here!
The Dark Races of the Pacific World: Reading Race, Immigration, and Empire in Pauline Hopkins and The Colored American Magazine
Join us October 17th at 5pm to hear Professor Edlie Wong’s talk on race portrayed through literature. Edlie Wong is Professor of English and Director of the Center for Literary and Comparative Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of Racial Reconstruction: Black Inclusion, Chinese Exclusion, and the Fictions of Citizenship […]
Film Screening and Discussion with Fred Kudjo Kuwornu 10/05
Don’t miss screening and discussion of “Blaxploitalian: One Hundred Years of Blackness in Italian Cinema” with Fred Kudjo Kuwornu on Thursday, October 5th at 6pm! You can find more information here.
“Dear Sister: Phyllis Wheatley’s Pleasures”
“Dear Sister: Phyllis Wheatley’s Pleasures” examines the extant, intermittent correspondence of two African and enslaved (at times) women, famed poet Phillis Wheatley of Boston and her friend, Obour Tanner of Newport, Rhode Island. Wheatley’s letters to Tanner – from 1772 to 1779 – evidence the deep down pleasure that comes from the satisfaction of her […]
“Linked Fates, Forming Ranks: How Can Solidarities Make Us Stronger?”
The striking re-emergence of Nazi symbols and language in Charlottesville, the string of nooses and other offensive symbols found in every region of the U.S., administrative decisions that impact Muslims, immigrants, and other marginalized groups, as well as the coming together of multiple protest coalitions in Washington DC, Ferguson, Missouri, Boston, Massachusetts, and elsewhere, represent […]