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The Creation: 30th Anniversary Black Anthology
Black Anthology, Washington University's longest running cultural show, is proud to present this year's 30th Anniversary production, "The Creation," inspired by James Weldon Johnson’s Harlem Renaissance poem of the same name.
Embodying the “discourse of rights:” Women’s Performance and the Terrains of Gender Justice in Jamaica
We hope you will join the Department of African and African American Studies for a talk by Nicosia Shakes of The College of Wooster. The topic of her discussion will be, " Embodying the “discourse of rights:” Women’s Performance and the Terrains of Gender Justice in Jamaica.”
Omari Mizrahi and Afrikfusion
50th Anniversary of Black Study & Activism
Say Their Names: Finding the Victims of Threatened and Completed Lynchings in the American South
In this talk, Prof. Amy Bailey (Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois, Chicago) will discuss a collaborative project working to locate census records and other archival documents related to people who were killed or threatened by lynch mobs in the American South between 1882 and 1930. She will outline the project aims and discuss what they have learned so far about who was likely to be targeted, the logic that governed the selection of victims, and whose lives were most at risk.
Raising the Race: Black Strategic Mothering and the Politics of Survival
with Riche Barnes
Strategic Negativity: Ratchetness and Reality Television
with Raquel Gates (CSI CUNY)
Negative Kanye
A public dialogue with Jeffrey McCune (WUSTL) and Raquel Gates (CSI CUNY)
African Film Festival
The 2019 African Film Festival will run March 29 through 31 in Brown Hall, Room 100 on Washington University's Campus. The festival is free and open to the public. No tickets are required.
Remembering Biafra: Ethnic Patriotism & the Igbo Diaspora
by AFAS Major, Amarachi Onyema
The First Atlantic Revolution? Islam, Abolition, & Republic in West Africa & the Americas, 1770-1806
Professor Butch Ware, Department of History at UC Santa Barbara
Recipies for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning
Professor Rafia Zafar discusses her new book as apart of the University Libraries Faculty Book Talk Series
Black Artists’ Exhibition & Conversation with Yvonne Osei and Basil Kincaid
Join us for a Black Artists’ Exhibition & Conversation with Yvonne Osei and Basil Kincaid as we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of African and African American Studies at Washington University.
4th Annual Trailblazers Recognition Ceremony
50 Years of Black Studies and Activism: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of African and African American Studies
The Black Rep presents: "Nina Simone: Four Women" opening May 15, 2019
Fifty Years of Black Activism & Study: An Archival Exhibition
AFAS in the University Archives - An Exhibition
Scholarly Writing Retreat 2019
Faculty, post-docs and graduate students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences are invited to jump-start their summer writing
28th Annual African Arts Festival
The African Heritage Association of St. Louis, the parent organization of the St. Louis African Arts Festival, will hold the African Arts Festival at the World's Fair Pavilion in Forest Park, May 25-27.
Civil Rights - Past and Present
University Libraries' Mary Curtis Horowitz Lecture for Civic Engagement and Social Policy, featuring former NAACP President Cornell Brooks, Sunday, June 2 in Graham Chapel at Washington University. Part of the 400 Years Plus Trilogy on Blacks in America.
Red Summer 1919: Commemorating the Past, Confronting its Presence
Dr. Geoff Ward discusses research and engagement efforts addressing the history of racial violence and its legacies today at the WWI Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, MO, as part of its series remembering the "Red Summer" of 1919.
Pedagogy Workshop: Wretched of the Earth
The Black Rep presents: Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope
First performed in 1971, "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" was the first musical review in the history of Broadway to be written and directed by African-American women, and examines enduring themes of economic and racial justice.
TAZARA Stories: Remembering work on a China-African railway project
TAZARA Stories tells the story of a train through the memories of those who built it. Set in Tanzania, Zambia and China, the film interweaves oral and visual narratives of workers from three nations who found themselves laboring side by side in a massive infrastructure project at the height of the Cold War. Remembering and reliving their youth, the workers take us on a journey in time from the exhilaration of construction through disappointments and derailments to their own hopeful resilience in the face of enduring change.
AFAS Welcome Back Party
Attention all current and potential AFAS Majors and Minors! We'd like you to join us for the annual AFAS Welcome Back Party on Friday, September 13th in Lopata Gallery from 4pm-6pm. We'll have food, music, and games!
Graphic Thinking: A Panel on Data Visualization
AFAS Professor Geoff Ward will join a panel addressing the themes of "Charting History: Data Visualization Through the Years," an exhibit focused on the history and future of data visualization, on display at the Jack E. and Debbie T. Thomas Gallery in Olin Library until December 6, 2019.
On Limits and Possibilities: Black Chicago's Kitchenette Apartments
Former AFAS Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Amani Morrison of the University of Delaware - Department of English
Faculty Book Talk: Heidi Aronson Kolk
Lecture/Demonstration: Afro-Brazilian Music and Dance of Backlands Bahia
Speaker: Mestre Cláudio Costa
Faculty Book Talk: Adia Harvey Wingfield
Sociology professor Adia Harvey Wingfield will discuss her new work, Flatlining: Race, Work, and Health Care in the New Economy.
Fronteras Líquidas - Liquid Borders: South by Midwest Conference
Fronteras Líquidas/Liquid Borders is the South By Midwest 5th International Conference On Latin American Cultural Studies
Mellon Mays Fall Symposium feat. Dr. Joshua Bennett
The Washington University Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program invites you to its Fall Symposium featuring poet/artist/scholar Joshua Bennett on Monday, October 7 at 4:00 pm in Goldberg Lounge in the Danforth University Center. The event is free and open to the public.
Black in the Middle: The Inaugural Black Midwest Symposium
Visiting Writer Sarah M. Broom reads from her work
Insurgent Public Space Making
A tour and lecture on insurgent public space making in St. Louis with Jeffrey Hou, Professor of Architecture, University of Washington.
Four Little Girls: Birmingham 1963
This COCA production imagines these four young girls before the terrible event on September 15, 1963— the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
Senegal in Black and White: Refashioning Racial Legacies
A presentation by internationally acclaimed Senegalese designer, Rama Diaw, and colonial legal scholar, Serigne Coulbary, on her 2019 fashion collection, inspired by 20th century photographs of Saint Louis, Senegal. This event is followed by the Art of Headwrapping workshop.
Michael Brown to Michael Johnson: The American Experiment of the BlackQueer
A “Five Years from Ferguson” Lecture by Professor Jeffrey McCune
Environmental Racism in St. Louis - Panel Discussion of 2019 Report.
Part of WashU Food Week 2019, a panel discussion of the recently-released Environmental Racism in St. Louis Report, produced by the Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic at WashU Law.
"The African American Land Ethic: The Intersection of Conservation, Environmental Justice, and Protection"
Part of WashU's 2019 Food Week
James Baldwin and the Moral Crisis of American Democracy
Eddie Glaude, Princeton University professor and MSNBC contributor
Sankofa on My Mind: The Role of the African Diaspora in U.S. Politics, Foreign Policy, and Development on the African Continent
Dr. Menna Demessie is the Vice President of Policy Analysis and Research Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and the Secretary of Ethiopian Diaspora Trust Fund Advisory Council. This event is sponsored by the African Students Association for Africa Week "From Tunis to Cape Town' Oct. 23 - Nov. 1
Building the Black Arts Movement: Hoyt Fuller and the Cultural Politics of the 1960s
AFAS Professors Jonathan Fenderson and Monique Bedasse will discuss Fenderson's recent book, Building the Black Arts Movement: Hoyt Fuller and the Cultural Politics of the 1960s
Water Histories of Ancient Yemen and the American West
Michael Harrower, Associate Professor of Archaeology, Director of Undergraduate Studies - Archaeology, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Trauma-Informed Teaching: How Gun Violence and Childhood Adversity Impact the K-12 Student Experience
Each One Teach One invites you to learn about how the trauma that children are exposed to outside of the classroom affects their ability to succeed in school.
St. Louis International Film Festival
IAS co-sponsors Cinema St. Louis' annual film festival
Artist Talk: Bethany Collins - Chorus
Join us for a reception, tour, and artist talk about Bethany Collins: Chorus, a new exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum.
#BlackGeographies at Geography Awareness Week
Geography Awareness Week (GAW) takes place November 10-16. An international event that promotes the importance of geography in people’s lives, GAW was created by a joint resolution in the U.S. Congress in 1987 and is held annually on the third week of November. WashU Libraries Data Services will lead a number of free workshops to promote Geography Awareness.
"Atlantics" screening at the St. Louis International Film Festival
AFAS is sponsoring the screening of "Atlantics," the Grand Prix winner at this year's Cannes Film Festival, at this year's St. Louis International Film Festival.
Visiting Hurst Professor Patricia Smith reads from her poetry
Never Die Alone: Donald Goines, Holloway House and "The Black Experience Book"
Zachary Manditch-Prottas, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of African and African-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis
Middle East - North Africa Film Series -- Fall 2019
Please join us for the screening of two films: Wadjda (November 6) and Wajd (November 19).
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Monument Lab: A Conversation with Co-Founder Paul Farber and Research Director Laurie Allen
Monument Lab is a Philadelphia-based independent public art and history studio critically engaging the past, present, and future of monuments.
“Let’s Read A Photoplay!” Popular Photographic Histories in Nigeria
Dr. Olubukola Gbadegesin,
Visiting Associate Professor of African & African-American Studies
Autoarchaeology at Christiansborg Castle (Ghana): Decolonizing Knowledge, Thought and Praxis
Rachel Engmann,
Assistant Professor of African Studies,
Critical Social Inquiry
Hampshire College
Panel: When We Talk to Each Other
This event takes as its point of departure the visualizations artist Ai Weiwei has created of contemporary refugees and their sociopolitical contexts through his artworks and films.
Panel: Ghost Sanctuary
Jonathan Stitelman, visiting assistant professor of architecture and urban design, Sam Fox School, and students in this semester’s graduate architecture studio course “Ghost Sanctuary” discuss the notion of sanctuary in relation to their own work and to Ai Weiwei: Bare Life.