Upcoming Events
April 26, 2018 | ||||||
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Gates Lecture 2018: David Scott | 5:00pm | Whitney Humanities Center |
53 Wall St. - Auditorium United States |
“A Sense of Displacement: Stuart Hall's Art of Living” | |
January 20, 2018 | ||||||
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Screening: "The Rape of Recy Taylor" | 5:30pm | Whitney Humanities Center | 53 Wall St. - Auditorium | ||
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Screening: "The Rape of Recy Taylor" | 3:00pm | Whitney Humanities Center | 53 Wall St. - Auditorium | ||
November 30, 2017 | ||||||
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James Weldon Johnson Memorial Lecture: Brent Hayes Edwards | 4:00pm | Beinecke Library | 121 Wall St. | ||
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James Weldon Johnson Memorial Lecture: Brent Hayes Edwards | 4:00pm | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library | 121 Wall Street | ||
November 9, 2017 | ||||||
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James Forman Jr. -- Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America | 11:45am | African American Studies Dept. | 81 Wall St., Room 201 | ||
October 26, 2017 | ||||||
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Brittney Cooper -- “Negressions: Black Feminist Genealogies of Respectability and Resistance” | 11:45am | African American Studies Dept. | 81 Wall St., Room 201 | ||
October 12, 2017 | ||||||
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Matthew Jacobson -- A Long Way from Home: The Untold Story of Baseball's Desegregation | 11:45am | African American Studies Dept. | 81 Wall St. room 201 | ||
September 15, 2017 | ||||||
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Emancipation in Woodside: Erna Brodber in Conversation with Claudia Rankine | 4:00pm | Afro-American Cultural Center | 211 Park St | ||
April 27, 2017 | ||||||
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Gates Lecture 2017: Dorothy E. Roberts | 5:00pm | Whitney Humanities Center | 53 Wall Street | ||
April 21, 2017 | ||||||
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Keith Wailoo - "The Crooked Mile: Menthol Cigarettes, Race Psychology, and the Fashioning of Black Authenticity" | 11:45am | African American Studies Dept | 81 Wall St, Room 201 | ||
April 13, 2017 | ||||||
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Erica Edwards -- "The Other Side of Terror: On the Imperial Grammars of Blackness" | 5:00pm | African American Studies Dept. | 81 Wall St. Room 201 | ||
April 4, 2017 | ||||||
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P. Gabrielle Foreman -- "Recovering Resistance: Colored Conventions and Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century and the Digital Age" | 6:30pm | Dept. of African American Studies | 81 Wall St. | ||
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P. Gabrielle Foreman -- "Recovering Resistance: Colored Conventions and Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century and the Digital Age" | 5:00pm | Dept. of African American Studies | 81 Wall St. | ||
March 30, 2017 | ||||||
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Tera Hunter: "Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century" | 1:15pm | African American Studies Dept | 81 Wall St, Rm 201 | ||
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Tera Hunter: "Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century" | 11:45am | African American Studies Dept | 81 Wall St, Rm 201 | ||
February 23, 2017 | ||||||
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Crystal Feimster: "Chasing Freedom: Runaways, Fugitives and Contraband" | 11:45am | African American Studies Department | 81 Wall St., Room 201 | ||
February 20, 2017 | ||||||
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Vera Wells '71 and Peter Salovey: "Sylvia Ardyn Boone" | 3:30pm | Luce Hall | 34 Hillhouse Avenue | ||
January 31, 2017 | ||||||
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Phoenix Alexander: "Octavia Butler and the Arichive at the End of the World" | 5:30pm | LC | 63 High St. Room 208 | ||
December 1, 2016 | ||||||
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Endeavors-Fred Moten: "The History of Blackness" | 4:30pm | William Harkness Hall | 100 Wall St., Room 207 | *^*NOTE SPECIAL TIME & LOCATION*** | |
November 17, 2016 | ||||||
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Film screeninig: "I Am Not Your Negro" | 7:00pm | Whitney Humanities Center | 53 Wall St - Auditorium | ||
November 10, 2016 | ||||||
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Endeavors: “Civil Rights or Human Rights?: An African American Activist in Canada, 1950-1967” | 11:15am | African American Studies Dept. | 81 Wall St., Room 201 | ||
November 4, 2016 | ||||||
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Robin Kelley-"Finding the Black Radical Tradition: The Education of Cedric J. Robinson" | 11:15am | Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair of U.S. History, UCLA | |||
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Robin Kelley-"Finding the Black Radical Tradition: The Education of Cedric J. Robinson" | 11:15am | Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair of U.S. History, UCLA | |||
November 3, 2016 | ||||||
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Robin Kelley-"Finding the Black Radical Tradition: The Education of Cedric J. Robinson" | 4:00pm | Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair of U.S. History, UCLA | |||
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Robin Kelley-"Finding the Black Radical Tradition: The Education of Cedric J. Robinson" | 4:00pm | Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair of U.S. History, UCLA | |||
October 27, 2016 | ||||||
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Endeavors: "Black Diaspora Art Practices in Contemporary Art" | 11:45am | African American Studies Dept. | 81 Wall St., Rm 201 | Kobena Mercer | Professor, History of Art and African American Studies, Yale University |
October 15, 2016 | ||||||
| The Colored Museum | 8:00pm | Iseman Theater | 1156 Chapel St | |||
| The Colored Museum | 2:00pm | Iseman Theater | 1156 Chapel St | |||
October 14, 2016 | ||||||
| The Colored Museum | 8:00pm | Iseman Theater | 1156 Chapel St | |||
October 13, 2016 | ||||||
| The Colored Museum | 8:00pm | Iseman Theater | 1156 Chapel St | |||
October 6, 2016 | ||||||
| Film Screening: "Birth of a Nation" | 7:00pm | Whitney Humanties Center | 53 Wall St. | |||
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Endeavors: "Cultural Control Over Social Control: The Radical Democratic Possibilities of the Harlem Renaissance" | 11:45am | African American Studies Dept. | 81 Wall St Rm 201 | Chris Lebron | |
October 5, 2016 | ||||||
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The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011) | 5:30pm | Yale School of Art--32 Edgewood Ave Gallery | |||
October 3, 2016 | ||||||
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Rephrasing America: Reading & Conversation | 7:00pm | Ezra Stiles College | 9 Tower Parkway | Aja Couchois Duncan and Simone White | |
September 29, 2016 | ||||||
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James Weldon Johnson Collection: Opening Reception | 4:00pm | Beinecke Library | 121 Wall St | ||
September 22, 2016 | ||||||
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Endeavors: Marcus Hunter | 1:15pm | African American Studies | 81 Wall St. | ||
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Endeavors: Marcus Hunter | 11:45am | African American Studies | 81 Wall St. | ||
September 21, 2016 | ||||||
| Come Sunday: Close Listening with Stanley Crouch and Daphne Brooks | 12:00pm | Whitney Humanities Center | 53 Wall St Room 208 | |||
September 20, 2016 | ||||||
| Hilton Als: James Baldwin in the 21st Century | 2:00pm | Whitney Humanities Center | 53 Wall St - Auditorium | |||
September 10, 2016 | ||||||
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Carrie Mae Weems presents "Grace Notes" | 8:00pm | University Theater | 222 York St. | ||
September 9, 2016 | ||||||
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Carrie Mae Weems presents "Grace Notes" | 8:00pm | University Theater | 222 York St. | ||
May 1, 2016 | ||||||
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Film Screeing" "2 Fists Up" (USA, 2016) 60 min | 7:00pm | Whitney Humanties Center | 53 High St | Spike Lee & Jonathan Holloway | |
April 27, 2016 | ||||||
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Gates Lecture 2016: Hortense Spillers | 5:00pm | "Shades of Intimacy: What the Eighteenth Century Teaches Us" | |||
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Gates Lecture 2016: Hortense Spillers | 5:00pm | Sterling Memorial Library--Lecture Hall | 100 Wall St | "Shades of Intimacy: What the Eighteenth Century Teaches Us" | |
March 31, 2016 | ||||||
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Endeavors: “Hotline Bling: Gendered Technologies in R&B Music” | 11:45am | African American Studies Department | 81 Wall St Room 201 | ||
March 3, 2016 to March 4, 2016 | ||||||
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Toxic: A Symposium on Exposure, Entanglement, and Endurance | 1:00pm | Kroon Hall | 195 Prospect Street | ||
March 3, 2016 | ||||||
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Endeavors: “The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America" | 11:45am | African American Studies Department | 81 Wall St Room 201 | Naomi Murakawa | |
February 28, 2016 | ||||||
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Intersectionality between artists and athletes explored in "Game Recognize Game" | 2:15pm | 32 Edgewood Gallery | 32 Edgewood St. | ||
February 25, 2016 | ||||||
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Endeavors: “'Yes, I am Black': Rachel Dolezal and Racial Fakery in Late Capitalism” | 11:45am | African American Studies Department | 81 Wall St Room 201 | Matthew Guterl | |
February 18, 2016 | ||||||
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Endeavors: “A Contest over Personhood: Student Movements and the Shifting Ideals of the University” | 11:45am | African American Studies Department | 81 Wall St Room 201 | Rod Ferguson | |
February 16, 2016 | ||||||
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Rizvana Bradley: "Decolonizing Frantz Fanon's New Humanism Between Cinema and Photography" | 5:00pm | Linsly-Chittenden Hall -- Rm 317 | 63 High st. | ||
February 9, 2016 | ||||||
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Jacqueline Stewart-- "Acting Right: Perfoming Black Performance in the Films of Spencer Williams" | 5:00pm | Whitney Humanities Center | 53 Wall St Room 208 | ||
February 4, 2016 | ||||||
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Endeavors: "The Intimacies of Four Continents" | 11:45am | African American Studies Department | 81 Wall St Room 201 | Lisa Lowe | |
January 30, 2016 | ||||||
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Film Screening--"The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution" | 2:00pm | Loria 250, Loria Center | 190 York Street, corner of Chapel St. | ||
January 28, 2016 | ||||||
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Endeavors: “Draw a Black Line Through It: On the Surveillance of Blackness” | 11:45am | African American Studies Department | 81 Wall Street - Room 201 | Simone Browne | |
January 23, 2016 | ||||||
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Continents in Conversation: A Literary Festival | 10:00am | Luce Hall | 34 Hillhouse | ||
December 11, 2015 | ||||||
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Film screening: "Within Our Gates" | 7:00pm | Whitney Humanities Center | 53 Wall St | ||
December 1, 2015 | ||||||
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Film screening and discussion: "Boycott" | 4:30pm | Whitney Humanties Center | 53 Wall St | ||
November 13, 2015 | ||||||
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POSTPONED: Lisa Lowe, "The Intimacies of Four Continents" | 11:45am | Dept. of African American Studies | 81 Wall St - Gordon Parks Room 201 | ||
November 12, 2015 | ||||||
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POSTPONED: The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution | 6:00pm | Sheffield-Sterling Strathcona Hall | 1 Prospect Avenue - Room 114 | ||
November 6, 2015 | ||||||
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Urban Narratives of Injustice: A Symposium on “The Wire” | 8:30am | Institution for Social and Policy Studies | 77 Prospect Street | ||
November 5, 2015 | ||||||
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POSTPONED: Erica Edwards, "The Other Side of Terror: On the Imperial Grammars of Blackness" | 11:45am | Dept. of African American Studies | 81 Wall St - Gordon Parks Room 201 | ||
November 4, 2015 | ||||||
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How to Read The Souls of Black Folk in a Post-Racial Age | 6:00pm | New Haven Public Library - Ives Main Branch | 133 Elm Street | Jonathan Holloway | |
October 30, 2015 | ||||||
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"Bringing Unknown Patterns into View: The Critical Vision of Robert B. Stepto | 9:00am | Loria - 351 | 190 York Street | ||
October 29, 2015 | ||||||
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In This Place: Space, Meaning and Possibility in the Writings of Toni Morrison | 4:00pm | Sterlng Library, Lecture Hall | Old Campus | Farah Jasmine Griffin | |
October 8, 2015 | ||||||
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Artist Talk: Christopher Cozier | 5:00pm | Loria B-51 | 190 Yori Street | ||
October 6, 2015 | ||||||
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“Race, Gender, Sex and Academic Citizenship” | 4:00pm | Linsly-Chittenden Hall | 63 High St. | ||
October 1, 2015 | ||||||
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Jackie Sibblies Drury in Conversation with Danielle Bainbridge | 11:45am | Dept. of African American Studies | 81 Wall St., Room 201 | ENDEAVORS COLLOQUIUM | |
September 30, 2015 | ||||||
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Lost Women of the Blues and the Birth of Modern Black Music | 12:00pm | Whitney Humanities Center, Room 208 | 53 Wall St. | ||
September 24, 2015 | ||||||
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Davarian Baldwin, “Higher Education and the Transformation of Today’s Cities” | 11:45am | Dept. of African American Studies | 81 Wall St., Room 201 | ENDEAVORS COLLOQUIUM | |
September 21, 2015 | ||||||
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WGSS Working Group: Elizabeth Alexander | 6:30pm | WL Harkness Hall - Room 309 | 100 Wall St, | ||
September 10, 2015 | ||||||
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States as Immigration Battlegrounds; | 12:00pm | ISPS | 77 Prospect St Room A002 | Implications for Federalism and Inequality | |
August 4, 2015 to October 25, 2015 | ||||||
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Everything, Everyday Artists in Residence | 12:00pm | The Studio Museum in Harlem | 144 West 125th Street | ||
July 18, 2015 | ||||||
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Music on the Green: WAR in Concert | 7:30pm | New Haven Green | Church and Elm Sts | ||
July 17, 2015 to July 18, 2015 | ||||||
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Weaver and Lebron among panelists at 2015 Harlem Book Fair | 7:00pm | Harlem, New York City | |||
July 8, 2015 | ||||||
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Heroes on Camera: International Center of Photography Introductory Workshop | 11:00am | Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture | 515 Malcolm X Blvd (at 135th Street) | ||
June 19, 2015 to June 21, 2015 | ||||||
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Rodney King | 8:00pm | Long Wharf Theatre | 222 Sargent Drive | Written and performed by Roger Guenveur Smith | |
June 16, 2015 | ||||||
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SCREENING: "The Passionate Pursuits of Angela Bowen" | 4:00pm | Iseman Theater | 1156 Chapel Street | Sneak Preview Film Screening | |
May 6, 2015 | ||||||
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All Me: The Life and Times of Winfred Rembert | 5:30pm | New Haven Museum | 114 Whitney Avenue | New Haven Painter and Leather Work Artist | |
April 23, 2015 | ||||||
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Endeavors: Saidiya Hartman | 5:00pm | Linsly Chittenden | 63 High Street, Rm 101 | "An Intimate History of Slavery and Freedom" | |
April 22, 2015 | ||||||
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Elizabeth Alexander: The Light of the World -- A Reading and Booksigning | 5:00pm | Yale University Art Gallery | 1111 Chapel St. | ||
April 21, 2015 | ||||||
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Gates Lecture 2015: Patricia J. Williams | 5:00pm | Whitney Humanities Center | 53 Wall St | "Anatomy of Short Lives: A Meditation on Repetitions of Regret" | |
April 16, 2015 | ||||||
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Endeavors: Jessica Matuozzi | 11:45am | Department of African American Studies | 81 Wall St., Gordon Parks Room 201 | War By Other Means: Black Radicals and the Fiction of Drug Rehabilitation, 1966-1974 | |
April 14, 2015 | ||||||
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Beyond the Lights (2014) | 7:00pm | Loria Room 351 | 190 York Street | ||
April 9, 2015 | ||||||
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(Cancelled) Endeavors: Naomi Murakawa | 7:30am | Gordon Parks Room, 201 | 81 Wall St | “The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America” | |
April 2, 2015 | ||||||
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Endeavors: Aldon Morris | 11:45am | Gordon Parks Room, 201 | 81 Wall St | "Sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois: Why Du Bois is the Founder of American Scientific Sociology" | |
March 26, 2015 | ||||||
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Endeavors: Nathaniel Mackey | 11:45am | Gordon Parks Room, 201 | 81 Wall St | “On Blue Fasa" | |
February 26, 2015 | ||||||
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Endeavors: Nikhil Singh | 11:45am | Gordon Parks Room, 201 | 81 Wall St | “Settlement and Slavery in the Imagination of US Foreign Policy” | |
February 20, 2015 | ||||||
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Prospects of Empire: Slavery and Ecology in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain | 11:00am | Lewis Walpole Library | 154 Main Street | ||
February 19, 2015 | ||||||
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Endeavors: Ann Laura Stoler | 5:00pm | LC, Rm 101 | "Colony and Camp: Concept-Work for Our Times" | Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies, The New School for Social Research | |
December 8, 2014 | ||||||
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Kristie Dotson: A Road to Oblivion or Joe Scarborough on Ferguson | 4:00pm | LC 103 | |||
December 5, 2014 | ||||||
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Book Fair: Book Arts/Art Books Today | 1:30pm | Yale University Art Gallery | 1111 Chapel St | ||
November 19, 2014 | ||||||
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Chicago Footwork: Music and Dance on Film by Glasspiegel | 4:00am | Beinecke Library, Rm 39 | 121 Wall St | Wills Glasspiegel, PhD Student, African American Studies / American Studies | |
November 14, 2014 to November 15, 2014 | ||||||
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ENDEAVORS: Things (Re)called: Memory and Materiality Across the Disciplines | 8:15am | Loria Center, Room 351 | 190 York St, New Haven | Mel Y. Chen, Keynote Speaker | Associate Professor of Gender & Women's Studies & Director of the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture. U.C. Berkeley |
October 30, 2014 | ||||||
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Seeing With a Spiritual Eye: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Kingdom of Father Divine | 11:45am | African American Studies Department | 81 Wall St, Gordon Parks Seminar Room 201 | Judith Weisenfeld, Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion, Princeton University | Endeavors Collquium |
October 28, 2014 | ||||||
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Exploring the Rise and Fall of Paramount Records | 7:00pm | Battell Chapel, Corner of College and Elm Streets | Jack White, Greil Marcus, Dean Blackwood, Scott Blackwood, Adia Victoria, and Daphne Brooks | ||
October 16, 2014 | ||||||
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Ralph Ellison and the Mystery of American Identity | 4:00pm | Beinecke Library | 121 Wall St | Cheryl Wall, the Board of Governors Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English at Rutgers University | The James Weldon Johnson Memorial Lecture |
October 9, 2014 | ||||||
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Endeavors: Conversation with Elizabeth Alexander, Toi Derricote and Cornelius Eady | 11:45am | African American Studies Department | 81 Wall St, Gordon Parks Seminar Room 201 | ||
October 2, 2014 | ||||||
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Endeavors: The Federalists in the Black Atlantic: Revisiting an Episode in Anti-colonial World-making | 11:45am | African American Studies Department | 81 Wall St, Gordon Parks Seminar Room 201 | Adom Getachew | PhD Candidate, Political Science and African American Studies, Yale |
September 18, 2014 | ||||||
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Endeavors: Kia Corthron, Windham Campbell Prize winner fior Drama, in Conversation with Nicholas Forster | 11:45am | African American Studies Department | 81 Wall St, Gordon Parks Seminar Room 201 | ||
July 12, 2014 | ||||||
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Holloway and Hunter featured in Baldwin retrospective, Harlem Book Fair | 3:00pm | Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture | 515 Malcolm X Blvd | ||
June 23, 2014 | ||||||
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Conversation with Holloway, Coates, Ifill and Nelson: "The New Civil Rights Agenda" | 6:30pm | ||||
June 5, 2014 to June 16, 2014 | ||||||
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Jazz and the Book Arts | 11:00am | Robert B. Haas Family Library (LORIA) | 180 York St. | ||
May 24, 2014 | ||||||
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Celebrating 225 Years: Equiano's "Interesting Life" | 3:30pm | Moorland_Spingarn Research Center-Howard Univ | 500 Howard Place, NW | ||
May 19, 2014 | ||||||
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Commencement Day 2014!! | 8:15am | Yale University | Old Campus | ||
May 16, 2014 | ||||||
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Bulldog and Panther: The 1970 May Day Rally and Yale | 4:45pm | Sterling Memorial Library | 129 High St | ||
May 3, 2014 | ||||||
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Transparency: American Art History Graduate Student Symposium | 9:00am | Loria Bldg | 190 York St | Key Jo Lee | Graduate Student, History of Art and African American Studies, Yale |
April 26, 2014 | ||||||
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The House That Will Not Stand | 8:00pm | Yale Repertory Theater | 1120 Chapel Street | ||
April 18, 2014 | ||||||
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"Poetry as Unsaying" - Anglophone Histories Colloquium | 11:15am | LC 211 | Anthony Reed | Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies, Yale | |
April 17, 2014 | ||||||
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A Dean's Tea with Lola Ogunnaike | 6:00pm | Afro-American Cultural Center Art Gallery | 211 Park Street | ||
April 15, 2014 | ||||||
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Miss Anne in Harlem | 11:45am | Dept. of African American Studies - Endeavors Colloquium | 81 Wall St - Room 201 | Carla Kaplan | Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature at Northeastern University |
March 31, 2014 | ||||||
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“What Made You?”: Rescripting the Dougla in Post-Emancipation Trinidad | 9:30pm | WLH 309 | Kaneesha Cherelle Parsard | (AFAM/AMST) | |
March 27, 2014 | ||||||
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Jonathan Holloway--Live Interview, WUNC Radio, "The State of Things" | 12:00pm | ||||
March 6, 2014 | ||||||
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American History M: Melanin Supremacy, White and Black Violence, and Spiritual Mastery | 11:45am | Dept. of African American Studies - Endeavors Colloquium | 81Wall St - Room 201 | Cecilia Cardenas-Navia | PhD Candidate, History of Science and Medicine, Yale University |
February 28, 2014 | ||||||
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power/sex:consent, constraint, context | 1:00pm | Whitney Humanities Center | 53 Wall St. | Crystal Feimster | |
February 26, 2014 | ||||||
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Kathleen Cleaver, legacy of "May Day Rally 1970," Pierson Master's Tea | 4:00pm | Pierson College Master's House | 231 Park St. | Kathleen Cleaver | Senior Lecturer, African American Studies Department, Yale |
February 20, 2014 | ||||||
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The Black Atlantic | 11:45am | Dept. of African American Studies - Endeavors Colloquium | 81Wall St - Room 201 | Paul Gilroy | King's College, London |
February 11, 2014 | ||||||
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POSTPONED due to weather: "We, The People" | 11:45am | Dept. of African American Studies-- Endeavors Colloquium | 81 Wall St - Room 201 | Bruce Ackerman | Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University |
February 6, 2014 | ||||||
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More Meaningful Than a Three-Hour Lecture: Music on SOUL! | 11:45am | Dept. of African American Studies- Endeavors Colloquium | 81 Wall St - Room 201 | Gayle Wald | Professor of English and American Studies, George Washington University |
January 29, 2014 | ||||||
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Our Black Teachers: The Bureau of Indian Affairs, African American Educators, and the Twentieth Century's Settler's State | 11:45am | HGS 105 | 320 York St | Khalil Johnson | PhD Candidate, American Studies and African American Studies |
January 25, 2014 | ||||||
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Point of View: Contemporary African American Art from the Elliot and Kimberly Perry Collection | 6:00pm | Flint Institute of Arts (Michigan) | 1120 E. Kearsley Street | Erica James | Assistant Professor, Art History and African American Studies, Yale |
January 17, 2014 | ||||||
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Institutions, Colonialism and Economic Development | 1:00pm | Whitney Humanities Center | 53 Wall St | Orlando Patterson | John Cowles Professor of Sociology, Harvard University |
January 16, 2014 | ||||||
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At the Crossroads of Hope and Despair: America since the Crash | 5:00pm | Whitney Humanities Center | 53 Wall St - The Gallery at the Whitney | Matthew Frye Jacobson | William Robertson Coe Professor of African American Studies, History, and American Studies |
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Democracy's Capital: Local Protest, National Politics, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Washington, D.C. | 3:00pm | HGS 105 | 320 York St | Lauren Pearlman | Psi Iota Fellow, History Department, Rowan University |
January 8, 2014 | ||||||
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Memory and Identity in Black America | 6:30pm | New America NYC* | 199 LAFAYETTE STREET SUITE 3B | Jonathan Holloway | |
December 16, 2013 to January 5, 2014 | ||||||
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater | 7:30pm | New York City Center | 131 West 55th Street (6th & 7th Aves) | ||
December 6, 2013 | ||||||
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Kwanzaa Ball 2013 | 7:00pm | Afro-American Cultural Center | 211 Park St | ||
December 3, 2013 | ||||||
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'Fly Away Home': Robert Hayden Centennial Celebration | 3:00pm | Yale University Art Gallery | 1111 Chapel St. | ||
November 21, 2013 | ||||||
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Emily Raboteau: "Santa's Little Slave": The History and Politics of Zwarte Piete in Holland | 11:45am | Dept. of African American Studies | 81 Wall St, Room 201 | Emily Raboteau | Associate Professor, English, City College, City University of New York |
November 7, 2013 to November 9, 2013 | ||||||
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Yale 'Americas' Alumni Conference | 6:30pm | ||||
November 7, 2013 | ||||||
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Charles Molesworth: African American Biography: Burdens and Possibilities - Two Examples | 11:45am | Dept. of African American Studies | 81 Wall St, Room 201 | Charles Molesworth | Professor Emeritus, Queens College, City University of New York |
October 31, 2013 | ||||||
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Gregson N. Davis: "'Journal of a Homecoming’: A New English Version of Aimé Césaire's Monumental Poem, ‘Cahier d'un retour au pays natal’” | 4:00pm | 82-90 Wall St., Floor 3 | Romance Languages Lounge | Gregson Davis | Andrew W. Mellon Research Professor in the Humanities, Duke University |
October 29, 2013 | ||||||
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Erica James: "Historicizing the Global in Caribbean Art" | 5:45pm | Loria Bldg., Rom 351 | 190 York St. | Assistant Professor, HIstory of Art and African American Studies | |
October 27, 2013 to October 28, 2013 | ||||||
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The Black Jacobins Revisited: Rewriting History Conference | 9:30am | International Slavery Museum and Bluecoat Arts Centre, | |||
October 17, 2013 | ||||||
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Olu Oguibe: "Current Projects" | 11:45am | Dept. of African American Studies | 81 Wall St., Room 104 | ||
October 9, 2013 | ||||||
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Chaining: Paradigmatic Space in African American Literature | 4:00pm | Beinecke Library | 121 Wall Street | Thadious Davis, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania | The James Weldon Johnson Memorial Lecture |
September 27, 2013 | ||||||
| Film Screening: "Seize the Time" | 4:00pm | Whitney Humanities Center | 53 Wall St. | |||
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Sumak Kawsay, Good Living: Visions for Achieving Environmental and Social Justice in Ecuador and the USA | 8:30am | Maurice R. Greenberg Conference Center | 393 Prospect St. | ||
September 19, 2013 to September 20, 2013 | ||||||
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Africa's Green Future: Nurturing the Vision of Wangari Maathai | 6:00pm | ||||
September 12, 2013 | ||||||
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Endeavors: "A Conversation with Tarell McCraney" | 1:15pm | Dept. of African American Studies | 81 Wall St., Room 201 | Tarell Alvin McCraney | Windham Campbell Prize Drama Honoree (2013) and Yale School of Drama |
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Endeavors: "A Conversation with Tarell McCraney" | 11:45am | Dept. of African American Studies | 81 Wall St., Room 201 | Tarell Alvin McCraney | Windham Campbell Prize Drama Honoree (2013) and Yale School of Drama |
May 20, 2013 | ||||||
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Graduation 2013! | 12:00pm | Yale University, Old Campus | |||
May 3, 2013 | ||||||
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The Image of the Black in Western Art: A Symposium | 9:00am | Yale University Art Gallery | 1111 Chapel St. | ||
May 1, 2013 | ||||||
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Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad | 1:00pm | Dept. of African American Studies, Gordon Parks Room | 81 Wall St., Room 201 | Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad | Director, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture |
April 23, 2013 | ||||||
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Aldon Nielsen: "Choruses: For Gil Scott Heron" | 11:45am | Dept. of African American Studies, Gordon Parks Room | 81 Wall St., Room 201 | Aldon L. Nielsen | The George and Barbara Kelly Professor of American Literature at The Pennsylvania State University |
April 19, 2013 | ||||||
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An Evening of Poetry at Ficre Ghebreyesus: Polychromasia | 5:00pm | Artspace | 50 Orange St., (corner of Orange and Crown) | ||
April 18, 2013 | ||||||
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Phillip Goff: “Identity Traps: The Psychology of Contemporary Discrimination Through then Lens of Law Enforcement” | 11:45am | Dept. of African American Studies, Gordon Parks Room | 81 Wall St., Room 201 | Phillip Atiba Goff | Assistant Professor of Psychology, UCLA |
April 17, 2013 | ||||||
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Smardz-Frost: "I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad" | 11:45am | Dept. of African American Studies, Gordon Parks Room | 81 Wall St., Room 201 | Karolyn Smardz Frost | The Bicentennial Visiting Professor for Canadian Studies, Gilder Lehrman Center Yale University |
April 11, 2013 | ||||||
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Sohail Daulatzai: “Black Star, Crescent Moon: The Muslim International and the Black Radical Imagination” | 11:45am | Dept. of African American Studies, Gordon Parks Room | 81 Wall St., Room 201 | Sohail Daulatzai | Associate Professor, Film and Media Studies and African American Studies, School of Humanities University of California at Irvine |
April 9, 2013 | ||||||
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Karolyn Smardz Frost in Conversation with Afua Cooper | 11:45am | Dept. of African American Studies, Gordon Parks Room | 81 Wall St., Room 201 | Karolyn Smardz Frost and Afua Cooper | |
April 8, 2013 | ||||||
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Glenda Gilmore: "Pacifism and the American Civil Rights Movement" | 6:15pm | Yale Saw School | 128 Wall St., Room 128 | Glenda Gilmore | Professor of African American Studies, Professor of American Studies, and Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History, and Director of Graduate Studies of the African American Studies Department |
April 6, 2013 | ||||||
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CESAIRE AT 100!: The Centennial of Amié Cesairé 1913-2008 | 9:00am | Wesleyan University, Russell House | 350 High St | Hazel Carby and Laura Wexler | |
April 5, 2013 | ||||||
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Ficre Ghebreyesus: POLYCHROMASIA | 5:00pm | Artspace | 50 Orange St., (corner of Orange and Crown) | ||
April 4, 2013 | ||||||
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Charles Mills: "Race and Global Justice" | 11:45am | Dept. of African American Studies, Gordon Parks Room | 81 Wall St., Room 201 | Charles W. Mills | John Evans Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, Northwestern University |
March 28, 2013 | ||||||
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Barbara Ransby: "Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson" | 1:45am | Dept. of African American Studies, Gordon Parks Room | 81 Wall St., Room 201 | Barbara Ransby | Professor, Gender and Women's Studies, African American Studies & History University of Illinois at Chicago |
March 7, 2013 | ||||||
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Christopher LeBron: “The Philosophy of Racial Justice: Urgency, Imagination, and Method” | 11:45am | Dept. of African American Studies, Gordon Parks Room | 81 Wall St., Room 201 | Christopher LeBron | Research Fellow in Political Science, Yale University |
February 28, 2013 | ||||||
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Heather Williams: "'What I Came to Say': Writing Help Me to Find My People" | 11:45am | Dept. of African American Studies, Gordon Parks Room | 81 Wall St., Room 201 | Heather Williams | Professor, Department of History University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
February 21, 2013 | ||||||
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Cedrick May: "'I have don my duty as well as I could': Exploring Slavery and Servitude In The Hillhouse Family Papers" | 11:45am | Dept. of African American Studies, Gordon Parks Room | 81 Wall St., Room 201 | Cedrick May | Associate Professor of African American Literature University of Texas at Arlington |
February 14, 2013 | ||||||
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"Natasha Trethewey in conversation with Elizabeth Alexander" | 11:45am | Dept. of African American Studies, Gordon Parks Room | 81 Wall St., Room 201 | Natasha Trethewey | Poet Laureate - Consultant in Poetry Library of Congress |
February 5, 2013 | ||||||
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Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco in Conversation with Elizabeth Alexander Inaugural Poet (2009) | 4:00pm | Ezra Stiles College | 9 Tower Parkway | Richard Blanco and Elizabeth Alexander | |
February 4, 2013 | ||||||
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Edouardo Bonilla-Silva: "The Invisible Weight of Whiteness: The Racial Grammar of Everyday Life in America" | 11:30am | 210 Prospect Street, Room 203 *Note this special day, time and location | Eduardo Bonilla Silva | Professor of Sociology Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Duke University | |
January 31, 2013 | ||||||
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Tricia Rose: "Black Cultural Politics in a Color Blind Nation" | 11:45am | Dept. of African American Studies, Gordon Parks Room | 81 Wall St., Room 201 | Tricia Rose | Professor of Africana Studies, Brown University |
January 24, 2013 | ||||||
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Ellen Gallagher: "Double Natural" | 11:45am | Dept. of African American Studies | 81 Wall St., Gordon P | ||