AFAM Studies Holiday Party 2014
Join us on Dec 11th, Thursday for a holiday party! We at AFAM Studies are hosting a little get together at 5 pm on Thursday at the AFAM Studies Building and YOU are invited. The end of a stressful academic semester deserves celebration, so join us as we do just that and also cheer […]
“Freedom Summer: Yesterday and Today” by James P. Marshall
Join us on Tuesday, Dec 2nd 2014 for a talk by James P. Marshall at the BU AFAM Studies Building James P. Marshall is a civil rights activist and an independent scholar and a Non-Resident Fellow at the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He […]
“Slavery and Africa in Brazilian Public and Popular Memory” by Ana Lucia Araújo
Join us on Nov 18th, Tuesday at 5.30pm for an informative talk by Ana Lucia Araùjo with respondent, Jeffrey W. Rubin on ‘Slavery & Africa in Brazilian Public and Popular Memory’. This is Part One in a series of “Conversations on Slavery, Memory and Culture: the Making of Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Society” sponsored by the BU Center for […]
“Engaging Domestic Audiences on US Foreign Policy Issues” by Karen Richardson
We kickstart this month of our Fall Lecture Series with a session by Karen Richardson on Nov 11th, Tuesday at 5pm . She will be addressing the topic of US Foreign Policy Issues from a domestic audience perspective. Karen Richardson is a Senior Advisor in the Bureau of Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. […]
“Between Translation and Conversion: Missionary Images of Kongo and Angola”
Lecture on Tuesday, October 28, 2014 at 5:00 PM at African American Studies 138 Mountfort Street, Brookline, MA Cécile Fromont is an assistant professor of Art History at the University of Chicago specializing in the arts, religion, and visual culture of the early modern southern Atlantic with a special focus on Kongo, Angola, and Brazil […]
7×9: Protest Against Solitary Confinement in Prisons
From 8 p.m. on Oct. 14 to 8 p.m. on Oct. 15, campuses around the Northeast participated in a performance arts vigil rallying against solitary confinement in American prison systems. Participating campuses included Harvard University, Princeton University, Brandeis University, Suffolk University, Boston University and Rutgers University. To read more about this event, click here.
“Misremembering Dr. King” Book signing with Jennifer Yanco
Wed., Oct. 15 6:30 pm “Misremembering Dr. King” – author event at BU Barnes and Noble Bookstore Reading and Book signing with author, Jennifer J. Yanco, PhD Visiting Researcher at Boston University African Studies Center. Sponsored by the BU African American Studies Program. Location: BU Barnes and Noble Bookstore 5th Floor, 660 Beacon St, Boston The […]
Alumni Weekend Event | “Naming and Remembering: The First Africans in America”
Join us Friday as we read the names of the first African Americans who were transported from Atlantic Africa, who survived the horrors of the Middle Passage, endured enslavement during the first sixty years in British and Dutch America, and who established the foundations of African Diasporic communities in the United States and the British Caribbean. All are welcome to […]
Welcome, new AFAM MA Students!
Dear new students at BU African American Studies – WELCOME to the program, Boston University and Fall 2014! To commemorate all these welcomes, we are organizing a Welcome Back Reception on Tuesday, Sept 9th 2014 at 4pm. This event will include the first of the Fall Lecture Series and Events – a talk by Dr. Mark […]
Ta Nehisi-Coates on Reparations for Ferguson
Author, Ta Nehisi-Coates speaks out in his blog about Ferguson here : Excerpt below: …Among the many relevant facts for any African-American negotiating their relationship with the police the following stands out: The police departments of America are endowed by the state with dominion over your body. This summer in Ferguson and Staten Island we […]