The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies

04/22/2026

Deborah E. McDowell Retirement Conference and Fellows Capstone Event -

04/09/2026

Join the Carter G. Woodson Department for an Alumni Panel this Saturday! Come prepared with questions and be ready to learn more about potential career fields for you. Food and drinks will be provided. We hope to see you there!

04/01/2026

Announcing: The 2025 - 2027 Woodson Fellowship Cohort -

This book examines Boko Haram as a manifestation of colonial and postcolonial disruption and displacement in Northeast Nigeria. From Jihad to Jihad traces the group’s historical and contemporary genealogies, showing how violent and structural ruptures, rooted in enduring colonial logics, produce...

03/09/2026

VA Governor honors Woodson Institute, plus: events THIS week! -

In Listening for Something, two renowned poets meet in a space of dialogue and discovery, blending conversation with poetry. Adrienne Rich, a celebrated American feminist poet, and Dionne Brand, a Trinidadian-Canadian poet, writer and filmmaker, come together for an intimate and incisive exchange. J...

02/17/2026

Black History Mo. Event Series Continues NEXT Week -

This talk, gleaned from Bey's forthcoming book Nonbinary Life: An Autotheory (Bloomsbury Transgender Theory Series, April 2026), offers the possibility of what nonbinary life might look like when it neither genuflects to the gender binary nor concedes that nonbinary is, strictly speaking, an ident...

02/02/2026

Weekly Black History Month Event Series Starts THIS Week -

The Carter G. Woodson Institute is marking the 100th anniversary of Negro History week with a weekly event series. Join us every Wednesday in the month of February.   Please arrive at Minor Hall early to enjoy pre-event refreshments

01/09/2026

Woodson Spring Events at a Glance -

Select papers and presentations to be included in a Festschrift (Papers in honor of Deborah E. McDowell) through the CGWI imprint of UVA Press.

12/18/2025

Winter Open House, Reginald D. Butler Symposium -

The Woodson community rounded out the academic year with an open house event, filled with games, music, food and good cheer.

12/11/2025

Symposium in Honor of Reginald D. Butler, January 23, 2026 -

12/03/2025

Woodson at ASA Conference, Workshops of Liberation, Capoeira and Tracing Your Genealogy -

Workshops of Liberation: The Black Arts Novel and the Politics of Institution Building December 3rd 3:00 pm - 4:15 pm Minor 110