AAAD Colloquium Series 2021
AAAD will host a series of colloquium talks featuring key speakers. The talks are held monthly on Wednesdays, see schedule and details below:
FALL 2021:
Andrea Frohne –Wednesday 9/29 – 11:15-12:15
Department of Art History, Ohio University
Raising Memorials: The African Burial Ground in New York City
Registration: https://bit.ly/raisingmemorials
Morgan Ames—Thursday 10/14 – 11:00-12:30
School of Information, UC Berkeley
The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death and Legacy of One Laptop per Child Modernity and Technology in East Africa
Registration: https://bit.ly/TheCharismaMachine
Stephanie DeVane-Johnson –Wednesday 10/27 – 11:15-12:15
School of Nursing, Vanderbilt University
“Boobie” Traps and Barriers to Breastfeeding for Black Women: From Research to Practice
Registration: https://go.unc.edu/devane
Brenna Munro –Wednesday 11/3 – 11:15-12:15
Department of English, University of Miami
A Transgender Turn in Global Nigerian Writing: Dilemmas of Writing Trans as Transnational
Registration: https://go.unc.edu/munro
Claude Clegg – Wednesday 11/17 – 11:15-12:15
Department of African, African American and Diaspora Studies, UNC
Hope and Change (and Fury): Some Reflections on Historicizing the Obama Presidency and its Aftermath
Registration: https://go.unc.edu/clegg
SPRING 2021:
Mbaye Lo, Duke – Wednesday 1/26 – 11:15-12:15
Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University
In the footsteps of Omar ibn Said: From Futa, Senegal to Fayetteville, North Carolina, rethinking religion and the quest to belong
Jennifer Nash, Duke – Wednesday 2/23 — 11:15-12:15
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Duke University
In the Room: Women of Color Doulas in a Time of Emergency
Ethan Caldwell – March 23 – 11:15-12:15
Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
Blackness and Belonging in Settler-Military Okinawa
Samantha Pinto, UT Austin. –Wednesday April 6 – 11:15-12:15
Department of English, UT Austin
Under the Skin: Reimagining the Inside of the Black Body in Expressive & Scientific Culture