Previous Events

W.E.B. Du Bois Department of
Afro-American Studies

Graduation Party 2008

Friday, May 23rd
4:30-6:30 p.m.
CCEBMS Library
2nd Floor, New Africa House

Ph.D. Graduates
Thomas Edge
Marieta Joyner

B.A. Graduates
Jessie Brown-Martin
Lucinda Ealy
Adelmar Fernandes
Monique Jemmott
Charles Jones
Mohamed Osman
Rebecca Sable
McKenzie Seldon
David Shulman
Monica Vance
Bonnie Walker

 

ESTHER TERRY AWARD EVENT (4/23/08)
Click below to view our picture collages

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Look Back and Wonder
A Documentary Film by Ernest Allen, Jr.
Wednesday, April 30th @ 7:30 p.m.
Room 137, School of Management
(click here for pdf flyer)

The Fire Next Time Colloquium
Wednesday, April 30th
@ 4:30 p.m.
CCEBMS Library
2nd Floor, New Africa House
(click here for pdf flyer)


NATIONAL HIPHOP CONFERENCE

Triggering Change
HipHop, Media, Justice & Social Responsibility

APRIL 25th and 26th, 2008

School of Management
UMass Amherst

For more information contact triggeringchange08@gmail.com

(Click here for pdf flyer)


* BODY POLITICS 2008 *

Directed by Keli Stewart

The Women of Color Leadership Network Presents:
An original production about women of color and body image.


Dates and Times:      Saturday April 26, 2007, @7pm in SUB
                                Sunday   April 27, 2007@2pm in CCA

Location:  Student Union Ballroom/Campus Center Auditorium
                                

For more information please call 545-1671 and/or email: wocln@stuaf.umass.edu

Body Politics is an original production about women of color and body image. It explores issues such as self-esteem, sexuality, skin color, hair texture, and violence in the lives of women of color. Body Politics is a unique project which brings a diversity of women of color together to write, edit, learn, and perform. The event is on April 26th and 27th at 7pm in the Student Union Ballroom and 2pm in the Campus Center Auditorium. The show is hosted by Women of Color Leadership Network directed by Keli Stewart. It is a free event and open to the public.

Poetry and Short Stories by

KELI STEWART

Wednesday, April 23rd
7:00 p.m.

August Savage Gallery

 

THOMAS EDGE's

DISSERTATION DEFENSE

“The Social Responsibility of the Administrator”: Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
and the Dilemma of Black Leadership

Friday, April 11th at 9:30 a.m.
Room 110, New Africa House

A Memorial Tribute to
Max Roach, 1924-2007

Tuesday, March 25th 2008

A Daylong Celebration of the legendary jazz drummer
Max Roach

 

BOOK PARTY & SIGNING!

Contested Democracy: Freedom, Race,
and Power in American History
by Manisha Sinha

Thursday, March 6th, 2008
7:00 p.m.

(click here for more info)

14th ANNUAL W.E.B. DU BOIS LECTURE

Arnold Rampersad

Thursday, February 28th, 2008, 4:30 p.m.
Lower Level, Library

Arnold Rampersad, author of acclaimed works on W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, and Ralph Ellison, will be giving the 14th annual W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture this year. The title of his talk is "W.E.B. Du Bois and Ralph Ellison."

 

 

 

 

 

An Evening with the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies

Thursday, February 21st, 2008
6:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Memorial Hall

(click here for more info--pdf)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jesus "Chucho" Garcia
Afro-Venezuelan Intellectual Activist
Leader of the Network of Afro-Venezuelan Organizations
and of the Strategic Alliance of Afrodescendants in Latin America

"The Afro-Venezuelan Social Movement and the New Left in Latin America"

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008, 12:00 p.m.
Shirley Graham Du Bois Library
2nd Floor, New Africa House

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Fire Next Time Colloquium
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Shirley Graham Du Bois Library
(click here for pdf flyer)

A presentation by Dr. Whitney Battle-Baptiste
Professor of Archaeology


Du Bois Distinguished Lecture: "The Obstacles of Leadership in Africa & Prospects for the Future"
November 26, 2007
11th Floor, Campus Center
His Excellency
Antonio Monteiro
Former President of Cape Verde
(1991-2001)

Coming soon:
A video excerpt of his lecture and photo gallery





Brazilian Minister Matilde Ribeiro lectured at an event co-sponsored with the Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies on 9/13/07.

She also visited New Africa House to discuss research and other collaborative projects.
"Genius" writer and filmmaker Charles Burnett visited Amherst Cinema on October 21-22, 2007, and New Africa House. He gave the Afro-American Studies Department an exclusive screening of his newest work Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation.

*For event details see
DU BOIS LINES
Fall 2007 Issue
(Click here for pdf)