Conversations in African American Studies, Fall 2007

Middle Passage: Conversations on Black Religion in the African Diaspora Conference, April 3 - 5, 2008

Initiative on Race, Gender, and Globalization at Yale University - Fall 2007 events

The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition

The Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale

Yale Council on African Studies

Program in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration

Program in Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies

Conversations in African American Studies

Wed. Oct. 31st 4:30 - 6:30pm Womanist Ethics and the Cultural Production of Evil
Emilie Townes, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of African American Religion and Theology, Yale University
at 81 Wall Street, Room 301

Wed. Nov. 14th 4:30 - 6:30pm When the New Labor History Met African American Studies: Reflections on a Moment and the Scholarship it Inspired
Eric Arnesen, Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago
at 81 Wall Street, Room 301

Wed. Dec. 5th 4:30 - 6:30pm Who Set You Flowin'
Farah Griffin, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
at 81 Wall Street, Room 301

Initiative on Race, Gender, and Globalization at Yale University

The Initiative on Race, Gender and Globalization (IRGG) at Yale University engages in interdisciplinary and transnational research, teaching, and dialogue on the culture and politics of contemporary postcolonial and neo-liberal racial and gender formations and the historical legacies of colonialism and imperialism. Created in the fall of 2004, the IRGG organizes colloquia, conferences, film screenings, and hosts visiting artists and scholars. Please view the IRGG's recent newsletter.

In the Fall 2007, the IRGG plans to host James Walvin, Professor at the Center for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York. For over thirty years, Professor Walvin’s studies of modern social history and his engagements with the history of black slavery and the Atlantic slave trade have invigorated our understanding of the Atlantic world. In his talk, Professor Walvin will discuss his latest research on the Zong massacre of 1781. We will also host Tina Campt, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at Duke University. Professor Campt’s visit to Yale promises to be an enlightening experience for Yale’s academic community. Her scholarship on the history of Afro-Germans, in particular, the history of Afro-German women during the period of the Third Reich, represents cutting edge work in the fields of African Diaspora Studies, Transnational History, and Women’s and Gender Studies. Her numerous essays as well as her book Other Germans: Black Germans, and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Memory in the Third Reich have opened intellectual spaces for rethinking how the understudied history of Afro-Germans offers us new vantage points for understanding the history of National Socialism.

Upcoming events include:
Mon. Sep. 24th 5 pm - Shifting the Scene of the Crime: Sodomy and the History of Rape
Stephen Robertson, History, University of Sydney
at the Hall of Graduate Studies (320 York Street) Rm 211

Mon. Oct. 15th 4:00pm - The Zong, Abolition and Public Sensibility
James Walvin, University of York
at Linsly-Chittenden Hall (63 High St.) Room 211

Mon. Oct. 15 5:30pm - The Trader, the Owner, the Slave, A Conversation between Caryl Phillips (author of Foreigners) and James Walvin
at Labyrinth Books (290 York Street)
This event is co-sponsored by Labyrinth Books

Tue. Oct. 16th 5:30pm - Testimonial Event
at Linsly-Chittenden Hall (LC) Room 101
Hear the testimony of Grandmother Mak Dal Lee, a survivor of the Japanese Military Sexual Slavery System

Wed. Oct. 17th 5 pm - Cover-Up: French Gender Equality and the Islamic Headscarf
Joan Scott, Institute for Advanced Study
at the Hall of Graduate Studies (320 York Street) Rm 211

Fri. Nov 2nd 9:30am - 6:00pm - Reconstructing Womanhood: A Future Beyond Empire
at Sulzberger Parlor in Barnard Hall, Columbia Univ. NYC

The symposium celebrates the 20th anniversary of Hazel Carby's groundbreaking text, Reconstructing Womanhood. Honoring the interdisciplinary significance of Professor Carby's scholarship in Literary and Cultural Studies, feminist theory, critical race theory, Marxism, and post-colonial criticism, this one-day symposium revisits the import of this work in relation to an extended set of issues that include re-writing the human, the production of disposable life, refashioning masculinities and queer sexualities, and creating a world beyond empire.
Please follow this link for a complete schedule.
*The symposium has been made possible by the generous funding of the following institutional partners: Yale University, the Office of the Provost; Barnard Center for Research on Women; Institute for Research on Women and Gender,Columbia University; Africana Studies, Barnard College; Institute for Research on African American Studies, Columbia University; Women's Studies Program, Duke University; and Columbia University Libraries.

Unless otherwise noted, events are co-sponsored by Yale's Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities.

Spring 2008

Wed. Feb. 6th, 5 pm
Margot Canaday, History, Princeton University
at the Hall of Graduate Studies (320 York Street) Rm 211

Wed. Mar. 26th, 5 pm
Martin Manalansan, University of Illinois, Urbana
at the Hall of Graduate Studies (320 York Street) Rm 211

Thu. Apr. 17th, 5 pm
Eric Fassin, Ecole Normale Supérieure
at the Hall of Graduate Studies (320 York Street) Rm 211

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