African Studies Center Hosts Graduate Student Conference
The African Studies Center, an affiliated center of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, hosted its 27th annual graduate student conference in African Studies on March 29-30, 2019.
The conference, entitled “In and Out of Africa,” kicked off on March 29, 2019 at 121 Bay State Road with an afternoon of paper sessions. The keynote address was delivered on March 30, 2019 at the African Studies Center by G. Ugo Nwokeji, Associate Professor of African American Studies at the University of California Berkeley. Nwokeji’s address was entitled “African Landscapes of New Slavery.”
Following Nwokeji’s address, the conference picked back up on March 30, 2019 at the African Studies Center for another afternoon of paper sessions.
Topics covered during the paper sessions included “Religion and Philosophy,” “Arts and Aesthetics,” “Knowledge Across Borders,” “In and Out of China,” and “Migration, Diaspora and Refugees.”
The conference was sponsored by the Pardee Center for the Longer Range Future, Graduate Student Organization, School of Theology, School of Social Work, School of Law, College of Fine Arts, Art History, Sociology, World Languages and Literatures, Romance Languages and Literatures, History, Earth and Environment, Religious Studies, the Institute of Culture, Religion and World Affairs, and Innovate@BU.
Founded in 1953, the Boston University African Studies Center has provided a strong foundation in African studies to generations of university professors, economists, health workers, government officials, development personnel, diplomats, and numerous others.