CALENDAR OF EVENTS | FALL 2021
Wednesday, September 22 | 1:00-2:30 pm
Black Aliveness and the Commons
Kevin Quashie, Brown University
Online: Virtual Zoom
Political Science Students’ Speaker Series presents Professor Kevin Quashie. We invite all who join to read his works Black Lyric Privacy and Black Aliveness, or a Poetics of Being Introduction.
Co-sponsors: Political Science Department, African American Studies, English Department
Sunday, September 26
Religion & (Breaking) Boundaries – A Virtual Conference
Online: Virtual, register here
The Boston University Graduate program in Religion Student Association invites you to attend their 2021 virtual graduate student conference on the study of religion. The event will feature a keynote address from Prof. Sarah McFarland Taylor of Northwestern University.
Co-sponsors: Department of Religion, African American Studies, Department of Sociology, Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies
Friday, October 1 | 4:00-7:00 pm
Black2BU Welcome reception and Alumni weekend
Welcoming everyone back to campus after a long time apart. Join us for music, Caribbean food, snacks and a good time! 4pm- Snacks by Sweet Teez, 4:15pm- Performance by Sabor Latino, 5pm- Food by Jamaica Mi Hungry, 6pm- Performance by Bombazo Boricua. Indoor/outdoor event. Register here.
Location: African American Studies Program Building, 138 Mountfort St., Brookline MA
Monday, October 4 | 12:10-1:40 pm
Student-led discussion of Louis Chude-Sokei’s essay, “In Praise of Racist Books: Notes of an Immigrant Reader”
Join the English department for a student-led discussion of Louis Chude-Sokei’s thought-provoking essay, “In Praise of Racist Books: Notes of an Immigrant Reader.” Max Chapnick and Iris Zheng will share their thoughts about this essay in their conversation with Professor Chude-Sokei. They are likely to connect the essay to the role played by books in Professor Chude-Sokei’s Floating in a Most Peculiar Way: A Memoir (2021).
Location: CGS 527
Tuesday, October 19 | 5:00-6:30 pm
Tender Black Feelings: A Conversation on Pedagogy and Research
Talk by Ianna Hawkins Owen, Asst. Professor of English and African American Studies and Takeo Rivera, Asst. Professor of English
Location: African American Studies Program Building, 138 Mountfort St., Brookline MA
November 12-13, 2021
An Emerging Scholars Program: Addressing Systemic Racism in Health and Medicine
Boston University Department of Anthropology, with the support of the Wheelock School for Education’s Education for Equity and Democracy program and the BU Medical School’s master’s program in Medical Anthropology and Cross Cultural Practice, will host an emerging scholars program dedicated to scholarship on systemic racism in health and medicine. More information here.
Tuesday, November 16 | 5 pm
Race, Prison, Justice Arts webinar series, “Building Activism Through the Arts”
Speakers: Amaryllis Lopez & Rania Henriquez
Online: Race, Prison, Justice Arts is an open dialogue sparking activism through the arts. This event is presented by the Prison Arts Project of the College of Fine Arts. Learn more and register here.
Tuesday, November 30 | 5 pm
Race, Prison, Justice Arts webinar series, “Building Activism Through the Arts”
Speakers: Ianna Hawkins Owen & Armand Coleman
Online: Race, Prison, Justice Arts is an open dialogue sparking activism through the arts. This event is presented by the Prison Arts Project of the College of Fine Arts. Learn more and register here.
Wednesday, December 1 | 5:30 pm
Patrice Rankine, Professor, Department of Classics, University of Chicago
Online: Virtual, Register to receive the streaming URL
Professor Rankine is the author of Ulysses in Black: Ralph Ellison, Classicism, and African American Literature. Faculty and students are encouraged to read his article in advance of the talk: “The Classics, Race, and Community-Engaged or Public Scholarship” (2019)
Co-sponsors: Classics Department, the Core Curriculum, African American Studies and the NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor