Africans on Africa: Gender, Generation, and Globalization, April 3-13, 2009
Two speakers from Senegal will visit as part of a major "Africans on Africa" event, April 3-13, 2009. Aisatta Tall-Sall is a prominent lawyer in Dakar, and Penda Mbow is Associate Professor in History at University Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar.
Lecture by Donald Carter, "Blackness over Europe", April 6, 2009
Donald Carter, associate professor in the Africana Studies Department at Hamilton College, will give a talk entitled "Blackness over Europe: Meditations on Migrancy, Culture and Belonging,” at 7:30pm, April 6, at the UMass Campus Center, Rm 917.
Lecture by Kesha Fikes, "Managing African Portugal", March 5, 2009
Professor Kesha Fikes, from the Dept. of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, will speak on the topic "Managing African Portugal" at 7:30pm, Thursday, March 5, at the UMass Campus Center.
Kwame Dawes Lecture, "Reggae and History: How Reggae Shaped the Way We Understand History", February 24, 2009
Poet, scholar, and activist Kwame Dawes will give a lecture, "Reggae and History: How Reggae Shaped the Way We Understand History," on Tuesday, February 24, at 7:30pm in the Augusta Savage Gallery, New Africa House, UMass-Amherst.
Visions of Freedom, December 13, 2008
A Roundtable on African American Visual Art of the 1960s & 1970s. Springfield Museum’s Davis Auditorium, Saturday, December 13, 2008, at 1pm.
