Africana Studies Events

Lecture and performance by E. Patrick Johnson, Carlos Montezuma Professor of African American Studies and Performance Studies at Northwestern University, with a companion presentation by the W&M Mattachine Project.

Information session for students to learn more about the W&M summer program in Cape Town, South Africa

The Patrick Hayes Writers Series and the Creative Writing Program present Jace Clayton, author of Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture (2016, Farrar, Straus, & Giroux). 

Join us for the kickoff event for the 11th annual IREP Africa Weekend -- AFRO ZUMBA! We will have a 1 hour Zumba class, to Afrobeat and SOCA music. Get your workout and have a great time!

Featured Speaker: Dr. Ben Reese: "Implicit Bias in the Academy: Meeting the Challenge"

Join us for a lecture by guest speaker and local activist Travis Harris and a sit lunch of Jamaican and West African food!

Join ACS and celebrate the African continent and diaspora in our 11th annual Cultural Showcase featuring amazing dance, song and poetry! Tickets are $7 in advance and $10 at the door. 

By addressing the ?problems? of race, digital humanities is better situated to preserve the (digital) souls of black folk while being methodologically enriched by the process of grappling with them.

The workshop is open to all faculty, librarians, graduate students, and interested undergraduates.  Please RSVP to lizlosh@wm.edu in advance.