Past Events

Black Feminist Activism & Politics in Brazil: A Conversation & Documentary Screening co-sponsored by the Department of African & African American Studies, the Department of Music, Latin American Studies Program, & the Office of the Provost at WashU.

The Department of African & African American Studies Speaker Committee presents the Spring Series "Future of Sex" virtual roundtable. This roundtable focuses on the direction of reproductive justice and its potential negative or positive implications on public health.

Each spring, the College holds a Major Welcome event, where students are welcomed by faculty members of their chosen majors.

Historic expansion of market reforms in post-Fidel Revolutionary Cuba has contributed to increasingly stark racialized class inequality on the island. The contours of these socioeconomic changes are felt and mediated by Black people in distinctly gendered ways. In this talk, based on ethnographic fieldwork with rumberos (rumba performers) between 2012 and 2018, the embodied practices of African-inspired faith systems are engaged as means for ritual kin to form a space of well-being autonomous from the state and its development designs.

Due to weather forecast, this event has been canceled

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The Department of African & African American Studies will host its Fall Welcome Back event on Thursday, September 7th from 4:30 - 5:30 pm at McMillan Courtyard.

El Hadji Samba Amadou Diallo received his doctorate in History and Social Anthropology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, France and he is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of African and African American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. This talk will highlight his most recent book, Sciences et Confréries Soufies au Sénégal: Approches Nouvelles de la Violence et de la Démocractie (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2022).

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AFAS Featured Event: Works of Dr. John Mundell and Dr. Marlon Bailey

An associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at San Francisco State University, Dr. Fischer teaches courses about racism, gender, globalization, hiphop, and virtual ethnography.

Join the department of African and African American Studies for a night full of games, fun, and laughter!

Join the AFAS Foundations class for an enriching conversation with the Goncourt Prize winner and the author of "The Most Secret Memory of Men," Mbougar Sarr.

Join Margaret Beale Spencer as she discusses theory based explorations as a part of the course, Construction and Experience of Black Adolescence.

Join the St. Louis International Film Festival as they celebrate their 32nd annual film festival. This will be an unforgettable evening featuring entertainment by DJ Charlie Chan Soprano, the official DJ for Run DMC, complimentary beer and wine for those 21+. Buy tickets using the link provided.

The African & African American Studies Department is proud to sponsor the film "Black Barbie", as part of the St. Louis International Film Festival. Tickets are free but please register using the link attached. 

Join the Department of African & African American Studies as we present the virtual roundtable discussing the past, present, and future of the black family dynamic.

Join us for an in person graduate student roundtable discussion!

Visit the AFAS department on Monday and Tuesday (12/11 & 12/12) to enjoy a cup of hot chocolate, grab a snack, and make use of our quiet study room, McMillian 219

Join the AFAS department for an afternoon full of holiday fun.