Afro/Black Paris Future/Past Symposium held in April. Inspiring symposium convened by Professor Trica Keaton included both global and local scholars and artists. Panelists and participants contemplated history, the present and topics for future consideration.

In an article in the Public Seminar, Assistant Professor Vaughn Booker compares Martin Luther King, Jr.'s concern with the "god of nationalism" with the "new nationalism" in government today....

Debunking Biological Conceptions of Race Beyond the Millennium January 11, 2018 Lecture - 4:30 – 5:30 PM, Haldeman Center, 041 Dinner/Reception - 5:45 - 7 PM, Kemeny Hall, Math Lounge...

Dartmouth College invites applications for the Thurgood Marshall Dissertation Fellowship. The fellowship supports scholars working in any area of Africana Studies, broadly construed.

Dartmouth's social justice awards honor members of the Dartmouth community who have demonstrated their compassion, perseverance, courage, and leadership by engaging in the work of fostering human dignity and our common humanity....

Gender and Sexuality in Africa: Transdisciplinary Conversations brought scholars, artists, and activists to Dartmouth for a symposium November 3-4, 2017.

Writer Chika Unigwe will be in residence with the AAAS Program the week of October 28th to November 5th. She will also be speaking at the keynote roundtable for the Gender and Sexuality in Africa Conference on November 3rd....

AAAS will offer a foreign study program in Paris, France entitled "Afro/Black Paris" in Summer 2018. The FSP is focused on the historical, cultural, and social significance of African descended people in this region of the African Diaspora. Applications will be due February 1, 2018.

Professor Rashauna Johnson's new book Slavery's Metropolis (Cambridge, 2016) has been named a finalist for the Frederick Douglass Book Prize . Sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University, the Frederick Douglass Book Prize recognizes the best book on slavery, resistance, and/or abolition published in the preceding year....

Playwright Mohammed Ben Abdallah will be in residence at Dartmouth College from 2 to 13 July 2017. He will be visiting classes and meeting with faculty and students.