African/Black Diaspora Research Seminar Home

News

  • January 28, 2020 | "$500K Mellon Grant to Support Study of Evolution of Identity in African Diaspora in US" | Maryland Today | University of Maryland
  • Summer 2020 | Black Diaspora Research Seminar Newsletter | ISSUU | College of Behavioral & Social Sciences (BSOS) | University of Maryland
  • Spring 2021 | "Mellon Supports UMD African/Black Diaspora Research Seminar" | E-News | BSOS | University of Maryland

Upcoming Events

  • Fall 2021 | Public event, co-hosted with Howard University, College of Arts & Sciences, African Studies and History Departments | Washington, DC
  • Spring 2022 | Culminating conference, co-hosted with the University of Ghana | Accra, Ghana

Past Events
Events held in conjunction with Seminar Meetings I and II

  • October 2, 2020 | Conversations and Visual Representations of Race/Ethnic/Gender Identity, co-hosted with The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora | Virtual via Zoom 
  • February 25, 2021 | "Student Perspectives: Conversations in African/Black Identity," co-hosted with New York University (NYU), featuring NYU undergraduate students | Virtual via Zoom
  • February 25, 2021 | Undergraduate Student Forum, “Student Perspectives: Conversations in African/Black Identity,” featuring students from St. Mary's College of Maryland, University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Howard University | Virtual via Zoom
  • February 26, 2021 | "Rooted: Black Women, Southern Memory, and Womanist Cartographies," co-hosted with New York University, featuring oral historian Michelle Lanier and artist Allison Hamilton | Virtual via Zoom; view event recording below
  • April 2, 2021 | Welcome Launch: "Race/Ethnicity and Gender Identity in a Shifting Cultural and Racial Climate: African/Black Diaspora Academic and Public Discourse," an introduction to the research seminar for the University of Maryland campus community | Virtual via Zoom

Resources

View highlights from “Rooted: Black Women, Southern Memory, and Womanist Cartographies,” featuring Michelle Lanier and Allison Janae Hamilton, co-hosted with New York University: