Events

Current Events

What Africa Can Teach the World
Professors Abosede George (Africana Studies/History) and Mamadou Diouf (African Institute) lead this academic symposium in Celebration of Debora Spar
Date: Friday, October 24th at 10AM
Location: James Room, Barnard Hall

Abolition Democracy and Global Politics: A lecture by Angela Davis
A BCRW joint event
Date: Friday, Ocotober 24th at 7pm
Location: The Great Hall, Copper Union
http://www.barnard.columbia.edu/crow/events.htm#direct

Another Building Dancing: Savoneta
A Middle Passage Screening and Discussion with filmmaker/choreographer Gabri Christa.
Date: Tuesday, November 11th at 4:15PM
Location: Barnard Hall, Room 306

To Recross The Atlantic: Diasporic Art History and the Dialogic Imagination
A lecture by Kobena Mercer,
Date: November 17th at 6:00pm
Location: Julius S. Held Lecture Hall,304 Barnard Hall

True North
A film screening and discussion with Professor Monica Miller and Filmmaker Isaac Julien
Date: Friday, November 21st at7:00 PM
Location: 202 Altschul Hall

Past Events

2007-2008 is the fifteenth anniversary of Africana Studies!

In Spring 2008 the Africana Studies program at Barnard College will commemorate its first fifteen years at Barnard College and celebrate our current period of growth and renewal. With support from the Gildersleeve fund, Africana Studies is proud to present three top figures in Africana Gender Studies and an exciting reunion banquet:

Rethinking Gender in African Universities:
A lecture with Amina Mama, Barbara Lee Distinguished Professor, Mills College

Before founding the first Gender Studies Program in Africa at the University of Cape Town, Professor Mama taught social studies and gender studies at a number of European and International Institutions. She is Chair of Gender Studies and Director of the African Gender Institute at the University of Cape Town. However, she has also worked outside the academic mainstream as a researcher and consultant to various international bodies, and with an array of non-governmental and women’s organizations. She holds a doctorate in Organizational Psychology from the University of London. Her current research interests center around bringing gender analysis to bear on subjectivity, social relations and politics. Her major research projects have addressed women in government and politics in a variety of African contexts, militarism, women’s organizations and movements, race and subjectivity.
Date: April 22nd, 2008
Time: 6:30PM
Location: Ella Weed Room, Milbank Hall

Africana 15 Reunion Banquet
This Spring Africana Studies is celebrating its 15th anniversary. Spring is a time of celebration and rebirth! Fittingly, in Spring 2008 the Africana Studies program at Barnard College will commemorate its first fifteen years at Barnard College and celebrate our current period of growth and renewal with an alumnae banquet on April 4th. We invite all former Africana or Pan-African Studies majors as well as the many students who took classes or promoted Africana Studies at Barnard to join us for this unprecedented event. Students, current and former faculty, and other friends of the program will renew acquaintances, learn more about our history, celebrate our progress and plan for the future. The banquet is free to Barnard alums and invited guests, but registration is required. You can find more information on the Africana15 lectures or our reunion banquet on the upcoming Africana15 website.
Date: April 4th, 2008
Time: 6PM
Location: James Room, 4th Floor Barnard Hall

Black Youth & Empowerment: Politics and Rap Music
A lecture with Cathy Cohen, Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture & University of Chicago Professor.
Date: March 4th, 2008

Shifting the Terrain for Diaspora Studies: Democracy, the Rule of Law, and the ‘New’ Souls of Black Folk
A lecture with Kamari M. Clarke, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Yale University.
Date: February 7th, 2008

Perceptions of a Continent: discussion and dinner on study abroad in Africa
Co-Co-Sponsored by the Dean for Study Abroad with support from the International Initiatives Fund of the Offices of the Provost and the Dean of the College. Hosted by Shareese Pryor, BC ‘08
Date: October 15th, 2007

GENDER AMPLIFIED: Women & Technological Innovation in Hip-Hop
A conference with keynote address by Tricia Rose
Date: April 13th & 14th, 2007
Website: Gender Amplified

Memory and Longing: History, Fiction, and Black Diaspora
A dialogue with authors Yvette Christiansë and Saidiya Hartman
Date: January 22nd, 2007