News and Events

AFRICANA STUDIES FALL 2024 SPEAKER SERIES

September 24th:  Dr. Randi Gill-Sadler, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies & English at Davidson College

 Screening the Bombing of Osage Avenue in Cuba:  Toni Cade Bambara's Anti-Imperialist Media Activism

 

October 21st:  Dr. Matthew D. Morrison, Associate Professor ~ Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music; New York University Tisch School of the Arts

Blacksound:  Making Race and Popular Music in the United States

 

October 29th:  Dr. Daphne Lamothe, Professor of Africana Studies; Provost and Dean of the Faculty at Smith College

Black Ties and the Aesthetic Possibility of Objects

The Porch: A Studio Dialogue with nia love and Fred Moten

New Date: Thursday, March 25, 2021, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Rescheduled from Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020

The Bryn Mawr College Dance Program presents dancer and choreographer nia love and poet and critic Fred Moten in an embodied, textual, and theoretical dialogue at the intersections of their expansive work in abolition, fugitivity, and black radical traditions, hosted and curated by Assistant Professor in Dance Lela Aisha Jones.


Past Events

Virtual Colloquium in Visual Culture with C.C.McKee

Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020
Join the Center for Visual Culture for a presentation on "Shades of Revolution: Guillaume Guillon Lethière and Neoclassicism's Other Environments" by Prof. C.C. McKee

Sustaining Civil Rights and Human Rights in the Political Now

November 2019 | Bryn Mawr College
Bringing together four audiences:

  • Scholars and students
  • Journalists and opinion makers
  • National and grassroots activists
  • The extended community of Philadelphia and Camden

A Conversation with Bree Newsome

Thursday, Feb 28, 2019
In celebration of Black History Month, join us for an evening with the activist, filmmaker, musician, and celebrated voice on the front lines of the fight for justice and racial equality.


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Africana Studies

Paul Joseph Lopez Oro
Director of Africana Studies
Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies
Old Library 213
Phone: 610-526-5544
plopezoro@brynmawr.edu