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The Youth Narcotic Problem
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Speaker: Dr. Rhonda Williams, Associate Professor of History, Case Western Reserve University

Date of Lecture: 4.30.2009

 


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Renee Stout, Artist in Residence, Inaugural Lecture.

Speaker: Artist in Residence, Renee Stout
Renee Stout Read more about Renee Stout in the JHU Gazette

Date of Lecture: 3.28.2009

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National Aspirations and
Local Commitments: the
History of West African Elite

Speaker: Professor Carola Lentz,
Fulbright Fellow at the W.E.B. DuBois
Institute for African and African American Research
at Harvard University; Professor of Anthropology
and African Studies, the Johannes Gutenberg
University, Mainz, Germany.  

Date of Lecture: 12.04.2008
Duration: 1:20:26

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"Aksum and Ethiopia's
Late Antique Heritage"

Speaker: Marilyn Heldman,
art historian

Date of Lecture: 02.28.2008

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"Photobiologics and
Our Threadbare Social:
Imagining a Critical
Theory of Trauma"

Speaker: Maurice Stevens,
Associate Professor in the
Departments of African-American & African Studies
and in Comparative Studiesin Humanities at Ohio
State University

Date of Lecture: 2.21.2008

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Rwanda and Darfur

Speaker: Scott Straus, Assistant Professor of
Political Science and International Studies
at the University of Wisconsin at Madison

Date of Lecture: 04.09.2008

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"Black Women's Labor in the Age of Emancipation"

Speaker: Rosanne Marion Adderley, Associate Professor,
Program in African American Studies, Vanderbilt University

Professor Adderley is author of NEW NEGROES FROM
AFRICA: SLAVE TRADE ABOLITION AND FREE AFRICAN
SETTLEMENT IN THE 19TH CENTURY CARIBBEAN

(iNDIANA, 2006). Presently, she is at work on several
projects which address changing perceptions of African
people and African labor, mostly in the Caribbean, during
the era of emancipation; and a proposed book-length study
on the black experience during the Middle Passage.

Date of Lecture: 2.12.2008

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The “New” Immigrant City: Recruitment, Retention,
and Settlement of the Foreign Born in Baltimore

Speakers:
Melanie Shell-Weiss, Dept. of History, The Johns Hopkins
University; Elizabeth Clifford, Dept. of Sociology, Towson
University; Mindelyn Buford, II, Dept. of Sociology, The
Johns Hopkins University

Date of Lecture: 11.29.2007
Diaspora Pathways Project

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Remembering the Spirit of the Sixties

Speakers: Dr. Samuel Hay, Lafayette College;
Dr. Melanie Njeri Jackson, Virginia Commonwealth
University; Dr. Charles Jones, Georgia State University.

Date of Lecture: 11.12.2007

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"Religion, Politics & the Postcolonial State:
Africa's 'New Diaspora'"

Speaker: Dr. Olufemi Vaughan

Africana Dialogues Series inaugural
speaker, Dr. Olufemi Vaughan, is the
Associate Provost of SUNY
Stonybrook, and Professor of History and
Africana Studies. He has written widely on
African 20th century political history,
particularly on Nigeria. His multiple works
include the widely acclaimed book,
Nigerian Chiefs: Traditional Power in
Modern Politics,
1890s-1990s
(Routledge, 2000).

Date of Lecture: 11.27.2007
Africana Dialogues Series
Dr. Peniel Joseph

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An Unchronicled Epic: Black Power in American History

A talk with Dr. Peniel E. Joseph, Department
of Africana Studies, SUNY-Stony Brook
Date of Lecture: 08.16.07
Africana Lecture Series

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Playing America's Game: Baseball,
Latinos and the Color Line

A talk by Dr. Adrian Burgos, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
Date of Lecture: 09.28.07
Africana Lecture Series

Dr. Stefan Wheelock

audioAudio (MP3) Between Slavery and Mastery:
The Problem of Freedom in Olaudah Equiano's
Interesting Narrative

A lecture by Dr. Stefan Wheelock, Department of
English, University of Pittsburgh
Date of Lecture: 04.20.07
Africana Lecture Series
Dr. Paget Henry

audioAudio (MP3) Hannah Arendt and C.L.R. James
on the Meaning of the Political and the Social

A lecture by Dr. Paget Henry, Professor of Sociology,
Department of Africana Studies, Brown University
Date of Lecture: 04.19.07
Africana Lecture Series

audioAudio (MP3) The Hispanic Population in
Baltimore (with musings on African
American/Latino relations)

A classroom discussion with Rafael Regales,
Baltimore City Mayor's Hispanic Affairs Liaison
Date of Lecture: 03.06.07
Diaspora Pathways Project Talks

Dr. George Yancy

audioAudio (MP3) Living Whiteness, Living Blackness

A lecture by Dr. George Yancy, Professor of Philosophy,
Duquesne University
Date of Lecture: 03.03.07
Africana Lecture Series

Neil Roberts

audioAudio (MP3) Frederick Douglass' Marronage:
Understanding Political Freedom from
Modernity's Underside

A lecture by Neil Roberts, Visiting Scholar.
Center for Africana Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Date of Lecture: 02.21.07
Africana Lecture Series

Dr. John Jackson

audioAudio (MP3) Lecture | Question & Answer Session

When Keeping it Real
Goes Wrong: Sincerity, Authenticity and
the Politics of Identity

A lecture and Q& A with Dr. John Jackson Jr.,
Department of Anthropology and the Annenburg
School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania

Date of Lecture: 02.16.07
Africana Lecture Series

audioAudio (MP3) Reporting About Immigration
and Diversity in Baltimore

A classroom conversation with Ron Cassie,
The Baltimore Examiner
Date of Lecture: 02.13.07
Diaspora Pathways Project Talks