AAAD Colloquium Series 2023-2024
Annually, AAAD hosts a series of colloquium talks featuring invited speakers. These talks are held on Wednesdays; please see schedule and details below.
FALL 2023:
Lisa Lindsay – Wednesday 9/27/23 – 11:15am-12:15pm
Department of History, UNC-Chapel Hill
“Revolt on the Unity: African Women and Resistance in the Atlantic Slave Trade”
Battle Hall, Room 109
Karima K. Jeffrey-Legette – Wednesday 10/18/23 – 11:15am-12:15pm
Department of English, Hampton University (NHC Fellow, 2023-24)
“Is She Going or Has She Already Been ‘Where No One Has Gone Before’?!?”
Battle Hall, Room 109
Bibi Burger – Wednesday 11/1/23 – 11:15am-12:15pm
School of Languages & Literatures, University of Cape Town (NHC Fellow, 2023-24)
“White and Black Plaasfeminism: Race, Gender, Land and Loss in Afrikaans Farm Novels”
Battle Hall, Room 109
SPRING 2024:
Natasha Howard – Wednesday 2/7/24 – 11:15am-12:15pm
Media Studies, Morehouse College
“Relationship Themes in the Work of Black Female Rappers”
Battle Hall, Room 109
Danielle Purifoy – Wednesday 3/6/24 – 11:15am-12:15pm
Department of Geography, UNC-Chapel Hill
“Plantations Are Not Forest”
Battle Hall, Room 109
Deborah Thomas – Wednesday 3/27/24 – 11:15am-12:15pm
Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
“Embodied Knowledge and Modes of Repair”
Hitchcock Multipurpose Room (Stone Center)
Shakirah Hudani – Wednesday 4/10/24 – 11:15am-12:15pm
AAAD and Department of City & Regional Planning, UNC-Chapel Hill
“Repairing the City in Post-Genocide Rwanda”
Hitchcock Multipurpose Room (Stone Center)