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GA Incarceration Performance Project - 2 more free shows this fall!

The Institute for African American Studies is proud to support Dr. Amma and her students in their ongoing performances with The Georgia Incarceration Project’s By Our Hands. On Friday, November 8, members of IAAS faculty, students, and supporters enjoyed opening night of the performance…

314 Park Hall Student Lounge

Visit our Student Lounge in 314 Park Hall!

Undergraduate and Graduate students are welcome and encouraged to stop by 314 Park Hall to visit the AFAM student lounge. Use the computers, take advantage of free printing, or browse resources in our library collection.

AFAM students with Director, Dr. Carolyn Jones Medine

First Donuts with the Director

On Monday, September 23, 2019, the Institute for African American Studies hosted our first "Donuts with the Director" event in 314 Park Hall. Students networked with one another and the Director of IAAS, Dr. Carolyn Jones Medine, as they enjoyed free coffee and donuts.

Toni Morrison

Remembering Morrison through Teaching

Each semester, the Institute for African American Studies offers undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to pursue AFAM scholarship under the direction of a faculty member in a small seminar course setting (AFAM 4250/6250).

A photograph of the program for A Conversation About Slavery at UGA and the Baldwin Site Burials which shows enslaved African American workers sitting by the UGA arches.

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.