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-8 posts tagged "Africana Studies"
Emma Vales | Monday, February 27, 2023
On Thursday, Feb. 23, Notre Dame hosted a Colloquy on Black Church Studies, consisting of a roundtable discussion and luncheon, followed by a talk from keynote speaker Tracey Hucks. Hucks is the Victor S. Thomas professor of Africana religious studies at Harvard Divinity School and the Suzanne Young Murray professor at Harvard Radcliffe Institute for
Redmond Bernhold | Friday, November 11, 2022
Natasha Trethewey, two-term 19th U.S. Poet Laureate and winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, gave a poetry reading focused on her identity and inspiration as a poet Wednesday night for the Notre Dame community. “I think of myself as an elegiac poet as well as a poet concerned with remembrance and memorialization with the intersections between
Ciara Hopkinson | Thursday, November 16, 2017
Following the backlash against a lecture given by political scientist Charles Murray last spring, the department of Africana Studies initiated the Race and Ideas Lecture Series in partnership with several other academic departments. The second speaker in that series, Dr. Carol Anderson of Emory University spoke on Wednesday night about her most recent book, “White
Natalie Weber | Monday, February 6, 2017
On Friday, panelists gathered in the Oak Room of South Dining Hall to discuss the future of liberalism, as well as the future of democracy, in an event sponsored by the Potenziani Program in Constitutional Studies, the Constitutional studies minor, the department of Africana studies, and the Notre Dame College Democrats. The panelists included Tim
Jenna Wilson | Friday, February 19, 2016
Is there a difference between the civil rights movement and the Black Lives Matter movement? Is it one intergenerational movement? These are the questions students gathered to answer in a roundtable discussion Thursday in LaFortune Student Center. The conversation, part of a Black History Month discussion series, was sponsored by Multicultural Peace, Equality and Community
Emily McConville | Wednesday, December 10, 2014
As part of a series of protests this week against police brutality and racial injustice, Notre Dame students staged a “die-in” between O’Shaughnessy and DeBartolo Halls at 12:15 Tuesday, lying down on the sidewalk as students in both buildings changed classes. The die-in was part of the All Lives Matter Week to End Racial Injustice
Haleigh Ehmsen | Monday, November 3, 2014
Associate professor of Educational Policy Studies and African-American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago Dr. David Stovall addressed students, faculty and South Bend community members in a lecture titled “Re-envisioning Justice: Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer and the Current Struggle for Human Dignity” on Friday afternoon in Stapleton Lounge. The lecture was co-sponsored
Emily McConville | Sunday, April 27, 2014
An Africana Studies department bulletin board displaying quotes by political commentator Ann Coulter was defaced with red paint over Easter weekend. University spokesman Dennis Brown said Notre Dame Security Police (NDSP) was investigating the incident as an act of vandalism. The bulletin board, which remains outside the office on the third floor of O’Shaughnessey Hall, contains