{"id":6216,"date":"2016-07-06T13:29:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T17:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/?page_id=6216"},"modified":"2019-04-17T20:14:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T00:14:20","slug":"spring-2016-lecture-series","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/newsevents\/event-archives\/spring-2016-lecture-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2016 Lecture Series"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr. Phillipe Copeland and other panelists at the Spring 2015 student-led event, “50 Years Later: A Discussion on Voting Rights and Mass Incarceration.” Image courtesy of Oleg Teplyuk\/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Please note start times and locations on events!\"BU-3-1-2-Minutes-page-001\"<\/a><\/em><\/h2>\n

Thu., Feb. 11,\u00a0<\/strong>7 – 9 p.m.
\n3\u00a0\u00bd\u00a0Minutes, 10 Bullets<\/b><\/a>
\nREACT to FILM\u00a0 (RtF) at Boston University\u00a0Screening and Panel Discussion
\n(co-<\/span>sponsored by the African American Studies Program)* \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Location<\/strong>: College of Arts and Sciences, Room 313, 725 Commonwealth Ave<\/span><\/p>\n

Tue., Feb. 16, 5 pm <\/strong>
\nA Race Woman\u2019s Representation of Africa and Diaspora Culture: Shirley Graham Du Bois\u2019 \u201cTom Tom\u201d<\/strong>
\nSharon Harley<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span>Associate Professor of African American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park<\/span>
\nLocation:<\/strong> African American Studies Program Building, 138 Mountfort St., Brookline, MA<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Fri., Feb. 26,<\/strong>\u00a05:30 \u2013 7:30 p.m.
<\/span>Blackness and the Changing Face of the African Diaspora in the US\u00a0<\/strong>a Dialogue
Wendy Wilson Fall<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0Associate Professor and Program Chair of the Africana Studies Program at Lafayette College & Trina Jackson<\/a>, Social Justice Organizer, Facilitator, and Activist, Presented by the West African Research Association – Sponsored by the African American Studies Program*
Location:<\/strong>\u00a0Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground, 775 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA\"Electric<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Tue., Mar. 15,<\/strong>\u00a05 \u2013 6:30 p.m.
\nElectric Santer\u00eda: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion<\/strong>
\nAisha Beliso-De Jes\u00fas,\u00a0Associate Professor of African American Religions at Harvard Divinity School
\nLocation:<\/strong>\u00a0African American Studies Program Building, 138 Mountfort St., Brookline, MA<\/span><\/p>\n

Thu., Mar. 17, 5-7 pm
\nGenerations in Conversation: The Past, Present and Future of the Black Southern Literary Tradition<\/span>
<\/strong>Kiese Laymon<\/a>, Assoc. Prof. of English at Vassar College and Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi for 2015-2016
\nLocation: African American Studies Program Building, 138 Mountfort St., Brookline, MA<\/p>\n

Fri., Mar. 18,<\/strong>\u00a0Noon \u2013 1:30 p.m.
\nHow Things Fall Apart: Race, Gender, and Suspicion in Police-Civilian Encounters
\n<\/a><\/strong>Nikki Jones<\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong>Associate Professor in the Department of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley
\nDepartment of Sociology and sponsored by the African American Studies Program*<\/span>
\nLocation<\/strong>: Deptment of Sociology, 96-100 Cummington Mall Room 240 Boston, MA<\/span>
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

Tue., Mar. 29<\/strong>, 5 \u2013 6:30 p.m.<\/span>
\nMigrant Black Mothers: Dispossession and Reclamation on the Borderlands of Ethnicity\"Cuba<\/strong>
\nChannon Miller<\/span>, PhD\u00a0 student in the New England and American Studies Program at Boston University
\nLocation:<\/strong>\u00a0African American Studies Program Building, 138 Mountfort St., Brookline, MA<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Wed., Apr. 13,<\/strong>\u00a05 \u2013 6:30 p.m.
\nRace: Cuba’s Unfinished Revolution<\/strong>
\nDevyn Spence Benson,\u00a0Assistant Professor of History and African and African American Studies, Louisiana State University
\nLocation<\/strong>:\u00a0African American Studies Program Building, 138 Mountfort St., Brookline, MA\"Invisible<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Tue., Apr. 19<\/strong>, 5 \u2013 8 p.m.
\nInvisible Heroes: African-Americans in the Spanish Civil War Film Screening<\/a> <\/a><\/strong>
\nAlfonso Domingo<\/span> and Mireia Sent\u00eds<\/span> Co-Sponsored by Department of Spanish*
\nLocation:<\/strong>\u00a0Boston University School of Education, Room 130, 2 Silber Way, Boston, MA 02215<\/p>\n

Tue., Apr. 26,<\/strong>\u00a05 pm
\nCuba and the Way Forward:\u00a0USA, Angola, Latin America and Beyond!<\/a>
<\/b>Roundtable discussion on Cuban affairs with BU professors, students and visiting scholars
\nLinda Heywood<\/a>,\u00a0Professor of African History and the History of the African Diaspora and African American Studies, Boston University<\/span>
\nLocation<\/strong>:\u00a0African American Studies Program Building, 138 Mountfort St., Brookline, MA<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

AFAM Convocation<\/strong>
\nLocation:<\/strong> African American Studies Program Building, 138 Mountfort Street, Brookline, MA<\/p>\n

*Non AFAM Events but sponsored by the African American Studies Program<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Please note start times and locations on events! Thu., Feb. 11,\u00a07 – 9 p.m. 3\u00a0\u00bd\u00a0Minutes, 10 Bullets REACT to FILM\u00a0 (RtF) at Boston University\u00a0Screening and Panel Discussion (co-sponsored by the African American Studies Program)* \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Location: College of Arts and Sciences, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3592,"featured_media":0,"parent":1406,"menu_order":17,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6216"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8845,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6216\/revisions\/8845"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}