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Reading and Discussion: Engaging "The Sisterhood" with Courtney Thorsson

Courtney Thorsson is an associate professor in the English department and Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon, where she teaches, studies, and writes about African American literature from its beginnings to the present using Black feminist methods. Her new book The Sisterhood: How A Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture tells the story of how a remarkable community of Black women writers…


Black Women’s Wellness in Practice: Talk and Tea with Dr. Stephanie Evans

We invite you to join us between 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM on Monday, Feb. 19th in Adinkra Hall on the 4th floor of Memorial Hall.  This informal gathering offers space for conversation, refreshments, and wellness practices in fellowship with Dr. Stephanie Evans (Professor, Georgia State University), author of Black Women’s Yoga History: Memoirs of Inner Peace. In her book, Dr. Evans explains how memoirs offer lessons for those who are struggling…


Nigeria: The People, the Nation, the Future. A talk with Ambassador Amina Smaila, Consul General of Nigeria in Atlanta

Nigeria: The People, the Nation, the Future, a talk featuring Ambassador Amina Smaila, Consul General of Nigeria in Atlanta.  March 28, 2022 at 12:00 PM in Classroom J-246 of the Dean Rusk International Law Center


Outward: The Radical Legacies of Adrienne Rich

Outward: The Radical Legacies of Adrienne Rich, will take place on March 31st at 7:00 PM at Athenaeum in downtown Athens, GA. Join us for a conversation between Ed Pavlic, Christine Cuomo, and Cynthia Wallace. 


Donuts with the Director

During Black History month, the Institute for African American Studies welcomes visitors to their Open House & Donuts with the Director, Dr. Carolyn Jones Medine, scheduled on Wednesday, February 2nd and 23rd from 2-3 PM in room 314 Park Hall. This is an excellent opportunity to ask questions regarding classes and programs in IAAS, tour the student lounge and library, and connect with other undergraduate and graduate students. Free coffee…


Albert Murray Tribute

Join us Thursday, Dec. 9 at 6:30 p.m. for a special Six Bridges Presents panel discussion celebrating the 50th anniversary of Albert Murray’s memoir, South to a Very Old Place, which was selected for the prestigious Modern Library series as a contemporary classic in 1995 and was the subject of a recent exhibition at the American Writers Museum in Chicago. Registration on the free Zoom platform is required. Panelists include: Benji de la…


Athens-ASALH Founder's Day 2021 Event - African American Foodways Virtual Panel

You must register to attend this webinar.  Go to this link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cEYsrvDGT16NoLtIgvHZFA  The ASALH-Athens Branch and UGA Libraries are very pleased to again co-sponsor the annual Founder’s Day event, in honor of ASALH’s creator, the historian Dr. Carter G. Woodson. To culminate an active year of programming focused on the theme of The Black Family: Representation, Identity, and Diversity, we…


AAUW in Conversation with Dr. Patricia Bell-Scott

Join us for a discussion with AAUW fellowship alumna Patricia Bell-Scott, Ph.D., an award-winning author and professor emerita of women’s studies and human development and family science at the University of Georgia. Her most recent book, The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice, won the Lillian Smith Book Award and was named Booklist Best…


Ed Pavlic on Adrienne Rich & the Radical Imagination

The UA Department of Gender and Race Studies presents Dr. Ed Pavlic on Adrienne Rich & the Radical Imagination. Author of twelve books, Ed Pavlic is Distinguished Research Professor of English and African American Studies. Join this talk for a discussion of his most recent book, Outward: Adrienne Rich's Expanding Solitudes. Email Amber.Lovell@ua.edu for Zoom registration information. 


One Book Athens: One Book, Many Stories

Join Dr. Carolyn Jones Medine (Director, UGA Institute for African American Studies & Professor of Religion) and Dr. Llewellyn Cornelius (UGA Center for Social Justice) for a talk as part of the One Book Athens series on the topic, "Forms of Black Power in Stamped: From the March on Washington to the Juneteenth National Holiday and beyond." The in-person discussion will be based on Section 5 (1963-today) of the book Stamped, Anti-Racism…
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