-
October 25, 2023 marks the 40th anniversary of the Grenada Invasion, when the United States launched a Cold War military intervention in the island nation. The invasion violently marked the end of the socialist experiment inaugurated by the Grenada Revolu...
-
Monday, February 13th, 4 pm EST
Percy Hintzen, Charisse Burden-Stelly, and Aaron Kamugisha, in conversation about their new book Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean Postcolonial State, a collection of Hintzen’s essays co-edited by Hintzen, Kamgu...
-
Organized by the Department of Ethnic and Race StudiesBorough of Manhattan Community College
Date: April 27 & 28, 2023Location: Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY (New York City) & VirtualSubmission Deadline: February 15, 2023
With roo...
-
ASWAD 2022 Book and Article Prizes
2019 Results | 2020 | 2020 Results | 2021 | 2021 Results | 2022 | 2022 Finalists | 2022 Results
ASWAD Outstanding First Book Prize
The Outstanding First Book Prize annually honors an outstanding single-authored ...
-
Join us on Monday January 30, 2023 when we welcome Winston James, Professor of History (UC Irvine) and James Cantres, Associate Professor in the Department of Africana, Puerto Rican, and Latino Studies (Hunter College), as they discuss James's new book...
-
The Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective invites applications for its inaugural week-long residential digital humanities institute, to be held at the University of Miami in June 2023. The Caribbean Digital Scholarship Summer Institute (CDSsi) is gener...
-
Co-Edited by Duchess Harris and Julie Schwietert Collazo
This Call for Papers is for an interdisciplinary reader on Meghan Markle. We invite contributions to a peer-reviewed open call featuring research on the politics of race, monarchy, and “royal...
-
Universal Write Publications, with support from SAGE Publishing, is launching the “little Black books’--a new series of books in Research Methods for Black and Africana Studies (RMBAS).
The ‘little Black books’ are short and accessible texts ex...
-
BTWSC/African Histories Revisited present
Repairing Histories 2Commemorating Claudia Jones @ 58
Saturday December 17, 2022, 1:00pm GMT
A Zoom conference with papers presented by academic and community historians which aims to improve or expand the know...
-
2022 ASWAD PRIZES
ASWAD is pleased to invite nominations for its interdisciplinary awards for outstanding publication of a book and/or article on Africa and the African Diaspora published during the 2021 calendar year. Nominees can be considered in mor...
-
CALL FOR PITCHES • DUE JULY 1
Gayl Jones, Now and Then
The What
Post45: Contemporaries seeks to reinvigorate the erstwhile convention of academic critics not only describing past traditions but also actively intervening in current tastes. It provides...
-
Call for Abstracts
The journal Change Over Time: An International Journal of Conservation and the Built Environment, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press, invites submissions for:
CIVIL RIGHTS WORK AS A GLOBAL STRATEGY OF RESISTANCE AND RES...
-
Dear colleagues,
The research center OBSERVARE/UAL, together with the Universidad Autonóma de Madrid, will organize an International Seminar on Ins(Stability) in Guinea-Bissau.
The seminar will be held in a hybrid format (online and in person) at UAL's...
-
Virtual Host: Midland State University, Gweru, Zimbabwe July, 21-23 2022The Africa Unity Movement for Decolonization (AUMD), is a coalition of African-led organizations seeking to achieve freedom, sovereignty, and liberation for all African people from im...
-
For Immediate Release: May 16, 2022
The City of Alexandria is pleased to announce that the Freedom House Museum at 1315 Duke Street will reopen on Friday, May 27, with three new exhibitions showcasing Alexandria’s Black history and the Black experi...
-
May 7–8, 2022 | 9 am–4 pm ESTOnline & Free
Join us for a two-day virtual conference, with more than twenty international scholars of Africana Studies, Religious Studies, Anthropology, History, Sociology, Law, and Politics, who will share their ex...
-
This mailout is sent by BritishBlackMusic.com/Black Music Congress (BBM/BMC) www.BBM.eventbrite.com. It covers music industry and community activities associated with BBM/BMC, Akoben Awards, BTWSC, TAOBQ (The African Or Black Question), African Histories ...
-
MIAMI, FL. (April 7, 2022)— The 20th Eric E. Williams Memorial Lecture will take place at 5:00p.m. on Thursday, April 14, 2022 at the AT&T Conference Center, University of Texas, Austin (UT). Admission is free and open to the public. For those unabl...
-
WARA (West African Research Association) is pleased to announce that the Ideas Matter US-based Scholar Fellowship is OPEN for applications! This fellowship was designed specifically for West African graduate students studying in the US who do not have a...
-
I’m writing on behalf of the Education Department at The Museum of Modern Art to share an upcoming free virtual public program on African art and literature, organized in conjunction with the exhibition Frédéric Bruly Bouabré: World Unbound. The info...
