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 "Barack Obama, Presidential Leadership, and the Politics of Race" Registration: https://go.unc.edu/clegg

Mbaye Lo – Wednesday, January 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

*CANCELLED* Jennifer Nash – Wednesday, February 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 – Wednesday, March 23 – 11:15-12:15 Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Hawai’i at Manoa Blackness and Belonging in Settler-Military Okinawa

Criminal Repair and Postcolonial Sovereignty in the Jamaican Lotto ScamStructural adjustment continues to plague Jamaica with systemic and deepening poverty. I discuss how a group of young Black Jamaicans participated in what is known as the Jamaican lotto scam—an intricate … Read more

The annual AAAD Undergraduate Research Conference will take place on Saturday, March 26, 2022, in Graham Memorial Hall 039. As usual, it will feature presentations of some of the best scholarship by some of our finest student writers. Details regarding … Read more

Samantha Pinto – Wednesday, April 6 – 11:15-12:15 Department of English, University of Texas at Austin Under the Skin: Reimagining the Inside of the Black Body in Expressive & Scientific Culture