Wes AFAM Turns 50
Talks and Events on Blackness, Race, Sexuality and Power
Fall 2018
“Solidarity, Intersectionality, & Resisting Oppression”
Feminist philosopher Carol Hay
September 20th at 4:30
Russell House
Sponsored by Philosophy Department
Boukman Eksperyans & Paul Beaubrun – Haitian Music
September 20th at 7pm
Nic Lounge
Sponsored by African American Studies and Music
Raphael Xavier: Point of Interest
September 21st at7:30pm
CFA Theater, tickets needed
Sponsored by Center for the Arts
Kahlil Robert Irving: “Street Matter — Decay & Forever / Golden Age” Opening Reception
September 26th from 4:30pm to 6pm;
Conversation: Kahlil Robert Irving and Professor Tony Hatch at 5pm
Zilkha Gallery
Cosponsored by Center for the Arts and Center for African American Studies
Book Talk on Familiar Perversions: The Racial, Sexual, and Economic Politics of LGBT Families
Liz Montegary, SUNY Stony Brook
September 26th at 4:30pm
Judd 116
Sponsored by Queer Studies
Dwight L. Greene Symposium
“Black Phoenix Rising”
Tony Hatch, Wesleyan Professor with students
September 29th at 3:45pm
Daniel Family Commons
“The Illusion of Equality in Kantian Cosmopolitanism”
Jameliah Bournahou, Georgia College
October 2nd at 4:30pm
Downey 113
A Theory Certificate Lecture
The Annual Richard Slotkin Lecture In American Studies
“Why Gender and Race Studies Scholars Must Intervene in Security Studies”
Inderpal Grewal, Yale University
October 4th at 4:30pm
Russell House
Sponsored by American Studies and the Center for the Americas
“Civil Rights, Civil Wrongs” Symposium
October 6th from 9am -4pm, registration required to attend. Free for 20 students (contact JSteele@wes)
Shanklin 107
Co-sponsored by Wesleyan Institute for Lifelong Learning and the Center for African American Studies
Sorry to Bother You
Film screening with post-film discussion led by Prof Casey Hayman
October 12th at 8pm
Goldsmith Family Cinema
Sponsored by Center for Film Studies and African American Studies
Oceanic Feelings in the Anthropocene: Ellen Gallagher’s Rising (Black) Atlantic
Heather Vermeulen, Andrew Mellon Post Doc, Wesleyan
October 15th at 6pm
Daniel Family Commons
Sponsored by Center for the Humanities and African American Studies
Populism and Bigotry: Lessons from the 1920s Ku Klux Klan
Linda Gordon, New York University
October 16th at 11:50am
PAC 422
Hosted by the History Department
AMST 50th Anniversary Symposium
November 2nd from 12-6pm
Powell Theater
Hosted by American Studies with African American Studies
FGSS Annual Symposium
A conversation about HIV/AIDS and its histories, Black lives and health, queer historiographies, and writing practices
Panelists are Linda Villarosa, City College of New York and Khary Polk, Amherst College
November 2nd at noon
Sponsored by FGSS
Embodied Engineering: Gender, Technology and Body Politics in Mali (West Africa)
Laura Ann Twagira, Wesleyan University
November 5th at 6pm
Daniel Family Common
Sponsored by Center for Humanities
Studies Soulful Thanksgiving, Workshop and Dinner
November 16th at 3pm
Malcolm X House Lounge
Hosted by the Center for African American Studies
Refuse Bodies and the Technologies of Waste Production in the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Marisa Fuentes, Rutgers University
November 26th at 6pm
Daniel Family Commons
Sponsored by Center for Humanities
Whither Fanon?: Studies in the Blackness of Being
David Marriott
December 6th at 4:30pm
Russell House
Co-sponsored by Philosophy and African American Studies
West African Drumming and Dance
December 8th at 7pm
CFA Crowell Concert Hall (CFA B) Crowell Concert Hall