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Brown Bag Presentation by Dr. David Crawford Jones- "Farm Boys and Mine Workers: The Gendering of the Migrant Labor Body in the Making of Modern Namibia." Friday, October 23rd, 2015
The Department of African American and African Studies is pleased to announce the Brown Bag Presentation featuring AAAS Faculty Member, Dr. David Crawford Jones. The talk is entitled, "Farm Boys and…
Dr. Ted McDaniel on the 50th Anniversary of "Hang on Sloopy"
Professor Emeritus Ted McDaniel has written a new article uncovering the history of racial appropriation behind "Hang on Sloopy," an OSU tradition marking its 50th anniversary this year.
BPP Members: Emory Douglas and Harold Taylor Talk
The Minister of Culture Emory Douglas and former Los Angeles Panther leader Harold Taylor will share their experiences as members of the Black Panther Party during the turbulent 60s and 70s. Douglas…
Brown Bag Presentation featuring Dr. Denise Noble - “Re-Memorying Through British Caribbean Women’s ‘Domestic Arts’” Friday, April 17, 2015
The Department of African American and African Studies is pleased to announce the Brown Bag Presentation featuring AAAS Faculty Member, Dr. Denise Noble. The talk is entitled, “Re-Memorying Through…
AAAS Block Party!
This Friday, April 3, The Voices of the Black Academy and the Department of African American and African Studies will be hosting its first Block Party recruitment event! The event will be held right…
Art As Resistance: Emory Douglas, Minister of Culture for The Black Panther Movement
Thursday, April 16, 2015 - 4:30pm to 5:30pm Barnett Collaboratory, Sullivant Hall 141 Emory Douglas will deliver a lecture along with a power point presentation related to his graphic artwork during…
Brown Bag Lecture featuring Professor Pedro Schacht Pereira - "Hegel, Exceptionalism and other unexamined links in the Portuguese Black Atlantic"
The Department of African American and African Studies is pleased to announce the Brown Bag Presentation featuring Professor Pedro Schacht Pereira. The talk is entitled, “Hegel, Exceptionalism and…
Distinguished Lecturer Series: Dr. Mary Helen Washington presents "Make It Red:" Black Left Literary Modernism of the 1950s (Friday, February 27, 2015)
Dr. Mary Helen Washington will discuss her book “The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s.” Dr. Mary Helen Washington was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio…
Musicology Lecture: Ryan Skinner, The Ohio State University. Monday, October 13, 2014 - 4:30pm - 6:00pm 18th Ave. Library (Room 205), 175 W. 18th
Ryan Skinner of The Ohio State University music faculty presents "An Afropolitan Muse." This lecture is free and open to the public. This presentation illuminates the moral positions and ethical…