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Nov
10

47th Annual W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture with Dr. Ousseina Alidou, Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Part of the Fall 2025 Humanities Forum

Location

University Center : Ballroom

Date & Time

November 10, 2025, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Description

For their 47th annual W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture, the Department of Africana Studies presents Ecological Thoughts in Sahel West African Women's Literary and Cultural Narratives In the 47th...
Ousseina Alidou is smiling towards the camera. She is seated in front of a patterned background.

Nov
11

(Partner Event) Epistemic Dissonance: Trans*lating Across the Black Atlantic

Location

Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Building (ILSB) : 301

Date & Time

November 11, 2025, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

Description

Join Dr. Tanya Saunders and the translators from Brazil for this event.  The program centers around the launch of two books, Bondage: Anti-Blackness and Ancestrality and Epistemic Dissonance: The...

Nov
18

Robert K. Webb Lecture with Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, Wesleyan University

Part of the Fall 2025 Humanities Forum

Location

Library and Gallery, Albin O. Kuhn : Gallery

Date & Time

November 18, 2025, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Description

For their annual Robert K. Webb Lecture, the Department of History presents Dark Times: The Uses and Abuses of History in an Authoritarian Era Until recently, the history profession has...
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins is smiling towards the camera. He is standing outside in front of trees.