Bryn Mawr College Africana Studies Program

04/04/2018

SELMA Screening this week to remember the assassination of Martin Luther King. Be there!

09/14/2017

Black Girl (1966)

The film centers on Diouana, a young Senegalese woman, who moves from Dakar, Senegal to Antibes, France to work for a rich French couple. In France, Diouana hopes to continue her former nanny job and anticipates a cosmopolitan lifestyle. But from her arrival in Antibes, Diouana experiences harsh treatment from the couple, who force her to work as a full servant. She becomes increasingly aware of her constrained and alienated situation and starts to question her life in France.

09/14/2017

The Ousmane Sembène Film Festival begins tomorrow with a screening of "Black Girl" at 7 pm in Carpenter 21. Come and watch this film by one of Africa's biggest filmmakers.

08/01/2017

Hi Everyone!
Hope you're looking forward to the new school year.

Dr. Pamela Blakely will be teaching a class for this fall entitled Storytelling in Africa.

See below for more details.

04/11/2017

You are cordially invited to the Africana Studies Spring Tea!!

Time: Wednesday, April 12th at 4:30pm-5:30pm

Location: Campus Center 200 (upstairs in the campus center)

03/01/2017

The YAAPD Conference is back in full swing this year, from April 14th to April 15th. The conference will feature some of Africa's brightest minds discussing how we can work together to build the continent!

Ticket link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ubuntu-collaboration-for-african-development-tickets-30908086920

"Ubuntu is an Nguni term that roughly translates to “human connectedness through kindness” and “humanity to others”. The phrase took on a humanist meaning during Southern Africa’s transition to majority rule in the 1980s and acted as a rallying cry for Africanization and for the creation of global international and Pan-African communities in the Internet era."

Read more here: http://www.yaapd.org/sankofa54-2016

This is the 5th annual Yale African Development Conference, organized by the Yale Association for African Peace and Development. The event is a 2 day conference on Yale's campus consisting of keynote speeches and panels by some of Africa's most influential people. The theme for this year’s conferenc...

01/26/2017

Hi All!

Welcome back to a new semester. We have a lot of Africana-related events to report!

John Hyland PhD., a teaching fellow at Haverford is give a lecture on, "The Sonic Performances of Black Diasporic Poetries". There will be a Q+A session after.

Time: 4:15pm
Location: English House Lecture Room

12/05/2016

Come to our last Africana Lunch Table for the semester! 12-1pm at New Dorm Dining Hall! See you there!

That's right! Every Monday, come join Professor Linda-Susan Beard, the Africana studies program director, and other students for lunch at New Dorm dining hall! Come learn and discuss topics on the African diaspora! :)

12/01/2016

Students from Professor Grisgby's Race, Crime and Sexuality course welcome you to join us for a 10-15 minute visit to our gallery, enjoy refreshments and engage in conversation.

This photo gallery will present a visual trajectory of how black women's bodies have been criminalized through readings of queerness, abjection, and demonization. We blur the lines between historical and contemporary as well as truth and subjectivity in an effort to make clear that black women's bodies are continuous and consistent sites for gendered racial violence and that greater societal interpretations of nonwhite bodies are constructed through white fear and paranoia. We call the viewers to question what they see, what they've been told, who is allowed to create and purport narratives, and how they understand criminalization.

Gallery will be open Thursday, December 1 and Friday, December 2 from 5pm to 7pm.

Curated by Chelsea Richardson, Sabea Evans, Angelique Spencer, Isa Ballerini, Farida Ilboudo, Praxedes Quintana, Diomand Henry and Mary Beth Melso

11/28/2016

BACaSO Presents: They Will Have to Kill Us First

Description: A film about Malian music in exile, including a feature-length documentary following musicians in Mali in the wake of a jihadist takeover and subsequent banning of music.

Location: Campus Center

Time: Dec. 2nd, 7:30pm - 10:00pm

11/21/2016

Hey guys! Lunch table today at New Dorm Dining Hall from 12-1pm! Come join us!

That's right! Every Monday, come join Professor Linda-Susan Beard, the Africana studies program director, and other students for lunch at New Dorm dining hall! Come learn and discuss topics on the African diaspora! :)

11/14/2016

Edit: Unfortunately, the table is cancelled today. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope that you will join us next week!

Hey Hey Hey! It's Monday again!

Come to the Africana Studies lunch table today from 12-1pm! As usual, we will be at the New Dorm Dining Hall!

See you there!

That's right! Every Monday, come join Professor Linda-Susan Beard, the Africana studies program director, and other students for lunch at New Dorm dining hall! Come learn and discuss topics on the African diaspora! :)