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Spring 2020 Patience Essah Africana Studies Lecture Series

Dr. Curtis Jolly, "Africa the Forgotten Content: Why Should Americans Care?"
January 16, 2020
12:30 pm
CMD Presentation Room, Ground Floor of RBD Library
Dr. Timothy Askew, "The Historical and Cultural Significance of the Famous Song, 'Lift Every Voice and Sing'"
February 13, 2020
12:30 pm
CMD Presentation Room, Ground Floor of RBD Library
Dr. Bruce Mutsvario, "Historicizing & Contextualizing Digital Inequalities & Digital Colonialism in Contemporary African Societies"
March 5, 2020
12:30 pm
CMD Presentation Room, Ground Floor of RBD Library
Dr. Daren Ray, "The Malindi Inquiry: State Violence, Identity Politics, and the Precarities of Emancipation in Colonial Kenya"
April 9, 2020
12:30 pm
CMD Presentation Room, Ground Floor of RBD Library

Previous Africana Studies Lectures

Bill Deutsch
"Water Related Projects in Rwanda and Kenya"
Dennis Looney
"Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy"
Elijah Gaddis
"Gruesome Looking Objects: Racial Violence and the Archives"
Dr. Matt McDaniel
"Emigration to Liberia: From the Chattahoochee Valley of Georgia and Alabama, 1853-1903"
Dr. Kelly Kennington
"In the Shadow of Dred Scott: St. Louis Freedom Suits and the Legal Culture of Slavery in Antebellum America"
Earnestine Robinson
"The Negro Spiritual"
Dr. Adeola Fayemi
"African Immigrant Parenting in the USA: Children of Two Worlds"
Dr. Bernard LaFayette
"The Civil Rights Movement in the United States"
Dr. Benjamin Fagan
"The Black Press and the American Apocalypse"
Dr. Elizabeth I. Essamuah-Quansah
"Auburn in Africa"
Joan Harrell
"The Untold Story: Nurse Eunice Rivers & The Unethical Syphilis Study at Tuskegee"
Jennifer Brooks
"From the Congo to the Convict Lease: Africa in Alabama Coal Mines"
Tom Hicks
"Democracy is Rooted in Accessible, Secure, and Fair Elections looking ahead to the 2018 Federal Election (An EAC perspective)"
Tim Dodge
"African American Covers of Country Music BEFORE Ray Charles"
Michael Battle
“Vulnerable Populations, Immigration,and Niger Update”
Lucius Outlaw
“On Africana Philosophy”
Daren Ray
"Dancing with Swords in Kenya"
Tim Dodge
“Rhythm & Blues Goes Calypso: The Incorporation of West Indian Calypso into African American Rhythm and Blues c. 1945-1965”
Stacey Nickson
"After Mandela: South African Education in the Context of Politics, Business & Race"
Carla Jackson Bell
"Views on 'Blackness': An Architectural Discourse"
Sheyann Webb-Christburg
Sheyann Webb-Christburg shares her firsthand account of the turbulent events of winter 1965 in Selma, Alabama.
Adrienne Duke
“Africana Studies and Outreach: An exploration of how to affect change locally and globally”
Mitchell Browne & Kathleen Hale
“The Voting Rights Act and Judicial Professionalization of Race in American Elections"
David Carter
"Mississippi 'Freedom Summer' Voter Registration Drive"
Shakeer Abdullah
"Who is Best Prepared to Support African American and Other Students in the Diaspora in Higher Education"
Carol Ann Bachl Dennis
"Whispers of Freedom: Exploring Laura Beecher Comer's Diary Through the Prism of the Comer Slaves' Resistance"
Robin Sabino
“Enslavement, Community Building, and the Emergence of an Afro-Influenced Vernacular: The Case of the Danish West Indies”
Tim Dodge
"School of Arizona Dranes: Gospel Music Pioneer"
Jaena Alabi
"An Introduction to Racial Microaggressions"

Contact Africana Studies

Program Co-Directors:

Dr. Viviane Koua
3016 Haley Center
vzk0006@auburn.edu

Dr. Ernest Gibson
9080 Haley Center
elg0036@auburn.edu

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