2011-2012 Events

ENDEAVORS: lively interdisciplinary conversation

a colloquium in African American Studies that showcases works in progress

THURSDAYS, 11:45 – 1:15pm*, Department of African American Studies, 81 Wall Street, Gordon Parks Room, New Haven, CT 06511

 

February 16, 2012

"Odalisque”: Beauty, Sex, and Slavery

NELL IRVIN PAINTER, Visiting Fellow in African American Studies at Yale University

 

February 23, 2012

“The Legacy of Atlantic Slavery”: The Unfinished Business of Emancipation

KWAME NIMAKO, Professor of International Relations at the Graduate School of Social Sciences, Universiteit van Amsterdam, in conversation with STEPHEN SMALL, Associate Professor of African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley

 

March 1, 2012

"On the Trail of Bomars and Himeses": Chester Himes' Early Life,

LAWRENCE JACKSON, Professor of English, Emory University

 

March 22, 2012

"About Face": Photography, Portraiture, & the African American Author Function during the 1940s & 1950s

JACQUELINE GOLDSBY, Professor of English & African American Studies, Yale University

 

Thursday, March 22, 2012

TA-NEHISI COATES, Senior Editor for The Atlantic

 

Thursday, April 17, 2012

"Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America"

MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY, Professor of Political Science and Founding Director of the Anna Julia Cooper Project on Gender, Race, and Politics in the South, Tulane University

Note Special Time & Location: 12:10 pm, Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street, Room 127, New Haven, CT 06511

 

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

"'Valuing the Vote': The Redistribution of Voting Rights and State Funds Following the Voting Righs Act of 1965." (An article by the same title was co-authored by Elizabeth Cascio of Dartmouth College).

Ebonya Washington, Assistant Professor of Economics amd Political Science, Yale University

Note Special Day!

 

*unless otherwise noted*