AAAD Colloquium Series 2022-2023
AAAD will host a series of colloquium talks featuring invited speakers. These talks are held on Wednesdays; please see schedule and details below.
FALL 2022:
Ashu Handa –Wednesday 10/26/22 – 11:15am-12:15pm
Department of Public Policy, UNC-Chapel Hill
“State Sponsored Cash Transfers in Africa: The Quiet Revolution”
Zoom link: https://unc.zoom.us/j/92877966152
Patricia Matthew—Wednesday 11/2/22 – 11:15am-12:15pm
Department of English, Montclair State University (NHC, 2022-23)
“‘Attendant with pearls’: Portraiture, Abolition, and the Properties of Whiteness”
Meeting place: Battle Hall 109
Vlad Dima –Wednesday 11/9/22 – 11:15am-12:15pm
Department of African Cultural Studies, University of Wisconsin
“Meaning-less-ness in Postcolonial Cinema”
Zoom link: https://unc.zoom.us/j/96327556837
SPRING 2023:
Antonia Randolph –Wednesday 1/25/23 – 11:15am-12:15pm
Department of American Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill
“‘I Get in Ya’: Queering Straight Desire in Hip-Hop Culture”
Meeting place: Battle Hall 109
Tiffany Willoughby-Heard –Wednesday 2/15/23 – 11:15am-12:15pm
Department of African American Studies, University of California, Irvine (NHC, 2022-23)
Title: “Leveraging Research for Social Good: Fatima Meer, Feminist Participatory Action Research and the Ford Foundation”
Meeting place: Battle Hall 109
Shannon Gonzalez –Wednesday 3/22/23 – 11:15am-12:15pm
Department of Sociology, UNC-Chapel Hill
“The Secrets of Silence: Black Women Speaking on Police Violence and Invisibility”
Meeting place: Battle Hall 109
J Finley –Wednesday 4/12/23 – 11:15am-12:15pm
Department of Africana Studies, Pomona College
“Laugh No Limit: Black Stand-Up in the Afrofuture”
Zoom link: TBA