News and Events
AFRICANA STUDIES SPRING 2026 LECTURE SERIES:
Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Quita Wooward Seminar Room: Old Library | 12:30-2:00p.m.
Dr. Regina Marie Mills, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Invisibility and Influence: A Literary History of AfroLatinidades
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
Quita Wooward Seminar Room: Old Library | 12:30-2:00p.m.
Dr. Daniel J. Ferman-León, Bryn Mawr College
The Financialization of Racialized Geographies: Rental Housing, Exclusion, and Displacement in Kansas City, Missouri
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
Quita Wooward Seminar Room: Old Library | 12:30-2:00p.m.
Dr. Reena N. Goldthree, Princeton University
Democracy's Foot Soldiers: World War I and the Politics of Empire in the Greater Caribbean
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Quita Wooward Seminar Room: Old Library | 12:30-2:00p.m.
Dr. Melanie Y. White, Georgetown University
Second Annual Miriam Jiménez Román Memorial Lecture in AfroLatinx Studies
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Quita Wooward Seminar Room: Old Library | 12:30-2:00p.m.
Dr. Prisca Gayles, University of Nevada-Reno
Pain into Purpose: Mobilizing Emotions in Argentina's Black Resistance Movement
AFRICANA STUDIES FALL 2025 SPEAKER SERIES
"Defending Rumba in Havana: The Sacred and the Black Corporeal Undercommons" - a lecture by Professor Maya, J. Berry (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) ~ Wednesday, Sept. 24th, 12:30 to 2:00 in Old Library Quita Woodward room
"Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South" ~ a lecture by Professor Jarvis C. McInnis (Duke University)
Wednesday, Oct. 8th, 12:30 to 2:00 in Old Library Quita Woodward room
"Engendering Blackness: Slavery and the Ontology of Sexual Violence" ~ a lecture by Professor Patrice D. Douglass (University of California, Berkeley). Monday, Oct. 20, 12:30 to 2:00 in the Dorothy Vernon Room of the New Dorm
"Reclaiming Time: Race, Temporality, and Black Expressive Culture" ~ a lecture by Professor Isaiah Matthew Wooden (Swarthmore College)
Wednesday, Nov. 12th, 12:30 to 2:00 in Old Library Quita Woodward room
The Porch: A Studio Dialogue with nia love and Fred Moten
New Date: Thursday, March 25, 2021, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Rescheduled from Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020
The Bryn Mawr College Dance Program presents dancer and choreographer nia love and poet and critic Fred Moten in an embodied, textual, and theoretical dialogue at the intersections of their expansive work in abolition, fugitivity, and black radical traditions, hosted and curated by Assistant Professor in Dance Lela Aisha Jones.
Past Events
Virtual Colloquium in Visual Culture with C.C.McKee
Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020
Join the Center for Visual Culture for a presentation on "Shades of Revolution: Guillaume Guillon Lethière and Neoclassicism's Other Environments" by Prof. C.C. McKee
Sustaining Civil Rights and Human Rights in the Political Now
November 2019 | Bryn Mawr College
Bringing together four audiences:
- Scholars and students
- Journalists and opinion makers
- National and grassroots activists
- The extended community of Philadelphia and Camden
A Conversation with Bree Newsome
Thursday, Feb 28, 2019
In celebration of Black History Month, join us for an evening with the activist, filmmaker, musician, and celebrated voice on the front lines of the fight for justice and racial equality.
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Contact Us
Africana Studies
Paul Joseph Lopez Oro
Director of Africana Studies
Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies
Old Library 213
Phone: 610-526-5544
plopezoro@brynmawr.edu