January 28, 2022 3:00 PMLanguage choices in southern Africa: Ghost of European colonialism or pragmatism?A Talk By: Dr. Thabo Ditsele, Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics at Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria, South Africa
February 25, 2022 3:00 PMThe Enslaver Enslaved: The Black Dominator in Creole Louisiana Andia Augustin-Billy is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Centenary College of Louisiana. She earned her Ph.D. in French Language and Literatures with a certificate in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies from Washington University in St. Louis in 2015. Her ongoing research interests and published scholarship include analysis of race, gender, and sexuality in French-speaking Africa and the Caribbean.
March 08, 2022 7:00 PMIndie Filmmaking Masterclass with AFAS Artist-in-Residence, David KirkmanCupples II 203
April 12, 2022 5:00 PM"Who Owns Women's Rights?: Reflections on The UN Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)"AFAS 2022 Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Rhoda Reddock will discuss her latest work as a women's right expert for the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).Women's Formal Lounge | Hybrid
April 14, 2022 3:00 PM"Enacting Difference and Citizenship in Racialized Postcolonial Multiethnic Societies: The Case of Trinidad & Tobago" AFAS is pleased to present 2022 Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Rhoda Reddock, Professor Emerita of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at The University of the West Indies (The UWI) St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.Virtual
April 21, 2022 3:00 PM2022 A Black Space Odyssey: A Conversation About Afrofuturism and Its Importance in Film Zoom
April 22, 2022 3:00 PMPan African Capital? Banks, Currencies, and Imperial PowerHannah Appel is associate professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and associate director at the Institute on Inequality + Democracy. She is the author of 2019's The Licit Life of Capitalism: US Oil in Equatorial Guinea (Duke University Press) and co-author of 2020's Can’t Pay Won’t Pay: the case for economic disobedience and debt abolition (Haymarket Press).Zoom
October 03 to 07Mapping Nairobi's Linguistic Profile Professor Iribe Mwangi (University of Nairobi) will discuss his collaborative work with AFAS professor Mungai Mutonya mapping Nairobi's linguistic mosaic, a project supported in part by a 2020 Carnegie African Diaspora & International Institute of Education Fellowship.TBA
December 09, 2022 10:00 AMReimagining Black Studies in the 21st Century"Reimagining Black Studies in the 21st Century," a graduate program exploratory roundtable, will explore the future of Black Studies generally and at Washington University in St. Louis. Co-Sponsored by the Department of African and African American Studies, CURPP, & The Interdisciplinary Program in Urban Studies.