Events
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Sep 9Welcome Lunch & In Dialogue
Dr. Christy Clark-Pujara, Dr. Andrene Wright-Johnson
Levy Hall
Join the Department of African American Studies for our annual Welcome Lunch paired with our first In Dialogue session of the semester. Kick off your semester by breaking bread with students and faculty then learn more on faculty research areas.
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Sep 9Research for Black liberatory futures (In Dialogue)
Dr. Jessica Lee Stovall, Dr. Christy Clark-Pujara, and Dr. Andrene Wright-Johnson
Levy Hall #3204
Learn about research disciplines within the field of Black studies with Dr. Jessica Lee Stovall, Dr. Christy Clark-Pujara, and Dr. Andrene Wright-Johnson, scholars and professors of African American Studies. This interdisciplinary monthly series, hosted by the Department of African American Studies at UW-Madison, invites undergraduate and graduate students to join scholars, artists, and writers who …
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Sep 18Ethnic Studies FestLevy Hall
Find your community, meet professors, and tour the new Levy Hall with the Department of African American Studies, the Asian American Studies program, the Chicanx/e Latinx/e Studies program, and the American Indian & Indigenous Studies program.
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Oct 5Afropean
Discovery Building Learn more.
Afropean will convene scholars from around the country and Europe who offer both a breadth of research and expertise on the topic of Black people and Blackness in Europe since colonization and geographic variety including Germany, Italy, Denmark, France, Sweden and the former Soviet Union. Scholars will partake in public panel discussions that will place …
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Oct 28Building a career in filmmaking (In Dialogue)
J.M. Harper
3204 Levy Hall
Join Emmy-nominated filmmaker, J.M. Harper, for a discussion on building a career in the film industry. This interdisciplinary monthly series, hosted by the Department of African American Studies at UW-Madison, invites undergraduate and graduate students to join scholars, artists, and writers who are working with and at the intersection of Black studies. In dialogue, speakers …
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Oct 29“Soul Patrol” Screening (Collaboration with Cinematheque)
J.M. Harper
4070 Vilas Hall, 821 University Ave, Madison, WI 53706
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Nov 18Shonda Rhimes and the Politics of 21st Century Black Ladyhood (In Dialogue)
Dr. Keisha Lindsay
Join Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies (and African American Studies affiliate), Dr. Keisha Lindsay, for her lecture entitled “Shonda Rhimes and the Politics of 21st Century Black Ladyhood”. This interdisciplinary monthly series, hosted by the Department of African American Studies at UW-Madison, invites undergraduate and graduate students to join scholars, artists, and writers who …
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Feb 192027 Student Symposium
Tripp Commons, UW-Madison Memorial Union Learn more.
This interdisciplinary symposium is open to undergraduate and graduate students from any discipline whose work centers or intersects with Black studies and Black people.