UGA Catholic Center Celebration of Black History Month Read more about UGA Catholic Center Celebration of Black History Month
"Black Sounds Matter: African American Literature and Black Popular Music." A lecture by Emily J. Lordi, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Cosponsored by UGA English Department's Ballew Lecture Series Read more about "Black Sounds Matter: African American Literature and Black Popular Music."
AFAM 2150 Understanding Cultural Diversity Cross-cultural psychology, including and examination of issues such as conformity, leadership, and attributional style as they vary across different cultures, with consideration of their implications for the emerging world. Read more about AFAM 2150 Level: Undergraduate
AFAM 4055 Historical Survey of African American Thought This course enables students to understand that the different social and historical contexts in which individuals function as well as their personal experiences influence their thought and the level of effectiveness of their interactions with their own communities as well as with the larger society and to recognize the similarities as well as the differences in the thought of the people under review. Using primary source readings, lectures, and class discussions, students will examine representative works of selected African American social, cultural, and political thinkers--male and female--who functioned from the ninetenneth- into the twenty-first centuries. Lectures present the broader historical contexts in which these people lived. The course considers these individuals chronologically and focuses on approximately ten subjects, including but not limited to, Maria Stewart, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Martin Luther King, Jr., Angela Davis, and Cornel West. Students will demonstrate their critical and analytical skills in writing papers and essay examiniations. Read more about AFAM 4055 Level: Undergraduate
AFAM 4860 Afro-Latinx Identity Dialogues of the African Diaspora: From African Americans to Afro-Latinx This course will explore African American, Latin American and Latinx relations and the ways in which these interactions challenge cultural and historical divisions through literary, historic and cultural dialogues in particular that incorporate literature, film and music. The course will trace intersections of African Americans and Latinx persons in the U.S. from African American visions of Latin America and Afro-Latinx visions of the U.S. and the African diaspora to Afro-Latinx persons as citizens navigating two worlds. Read more about AFAM 4860 Level: Undergraduate
Slavery @ UGA: Baldwin Hall Remains "Some have been afraid to engage in the type of conversation we are about to have today because the many issues surrounding it are difficult, and because some constituents might be offended. But the past never cooperates by staying in the past. Eventually it always reaches out to us and asks, 'What have you learned?' " Tags: Slavery University of Georgia Baldwin Hall burial remains Read more about Slavery @ UGA: Baldwin Hall Remains
Lecture and book signing, for the release of Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War: The Undaunted 369th Regiment and the African American Quest for Equality Please join us at 4 PM at Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries Auditorium (room 271), 300 S. Hull Street., as co-authors Dr. John Morrow, Franklin Professor of History at The University of Georgia and Jeffrey T. Sammons, Professor of History at New York University, discuss the storied African American combat unit that grew out of the 15th New York National Guard. As noted by Dr. Read more about Lecture and book signing, for the release of Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War: The Undaunted 369th Regiment and the African American Quest for Equality
Hilto Als, dramacritic for the New Yorker Magazine Hilton Als, drama critic for The New Yorker magazine will read from his book White Girls. Read more about Hilto Als, dramacritic for the New Yorker Magazine
The Wanderer Symposium The symposium “Where I Come From . . .” : The Wanderer Enslaved and Their Descendants.explores the history of Kongolese Africans transported aboard the yacht Wanderer to the United States after the outlawing of the transatlantic slave trade. The symposium includes a viewing of the Georgia Museum of Art exhibition, "Face Jugs: Art and Ritual in 19th Century South Carolina," and a gallery talk hosted by the museum’s curator of decorative arts, Dale L. Couch. Read more about The Wanderer Symposium
A Night at the Morton: Celebrating Black Traditions in Athens Musical Culture Long known as an epicenter for rock and alternative music, Athens, GA is also home to a vibrant tradition of black music. “A Night at the Morton” highlights the diverse African American music soundscape in Athens through a program designed for music lovers of all ages and backgrounds. Performers include the Athens Voices of Truth community choir, directed by James R. Smith; the African American Choral Ensemble, directed by Gregory Broughton; and a dramatic enactment by theatre and film professor Freda Scott Giles. Read more about A Night at the Morton: Celebrating Black Traditions in Athens Musical Culture
