Emancipation & Empire: Africa and the Project of Black Studies

Black Forum at the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA

153 Haines Hall

Mondays, 12:00pm-2:00pm

All workshops will be based on a pre-circulated paper. Hardcopies are available at the African Studies Center, the Department of African American Studies, and the Ralph J. Bunche Center.

For more information contact: Eboni Shaw: eshaw@afam.ucla.edu

Workshops:

December 5th, 2016: Alden H Young, Africana Studies and History, Drexel University

January 23rd, 2017: Maboula Soumahoro, English, Université François-Rabelais, Tours-Bennington College

February 27th, 2017: Monique Bedasse, History and African American Studies, Washington University

March 13th, 2017: Tshepo Masango Chéry, African & African Diasporas Studies, University of Texas at Austin

April 24th, 2017: Siba N’Zatioula Grovogui, Africana Studies, Cornell University

May 8th, 2017: E. Kwame Otu, Carter G. Woodson Center for African-American and African Studies, University of Virginia

Emancipation & Empire is cosponsored by:

Professor Melvin L. Rogers, the Scott Waugh Chair in the Division of Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science and African American Studies; UC Consortium for Black Studies in California; James S. Coleman African Studies Center; Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA.