AAAD Colloquium Series 2024-2025
Annually, AAAD hosts a series of colloquium talks featuring invited speakers. These talks are held on Wednesdays; please see schedule and details below.
FALL 2024:
Letitia Guran – Wednesday 9/25/24 – 11:15am-12:15pm
Department of Romance Languages, UNC-Chapel Hill
“Insurgent Hughes: Reckoning with Racism Before and During the Cold War”
Battle Hall, Room 109
Shorna Allred – Wednesday 10/23/24 – 11:15am-12:15pm
Department of Geography, UNC-Chapel Hill
“Narratives of the Black Belt: Early Insights from ‘Storylines of Environmental Justice'”
Graham Memorial, Room 039
Adeshina Afolayen – Wednesday 11/13/24 – 11:15am-12:15pm
Department of Philosophy, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
“Afrobeats and the Postcolonial Daemonic Aesthetics”
via Zoom
SPRING 2025:
Kevin Quashie – Wednesday 3/26/25 – 11:15am-12:15pm
Department of English, Brown University
“For the Love of Reading”
Hitchcock Room, Sonja Haynes Stone Center
Maya J. Berry – Wednesday, 4/9/25 – 11:15am-12:15pm
Department of African, African American & Diaspora Studies, UNC-CH
Book Celebration (reception will follow)
Hitchcock Room, Sonja Haynes Stone Center