Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University

07/17/2026

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07/17/2026

AAADS Faculty News
"Mabel O. Wilson joined Whitney Battle-Baptiste for a conversation event with ASL interpretation entitled "W.E.B. Du Bois, Data and World-Building" presented at the Central Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library."

W.E.B. Du Bois, Data and World-BuildingMabel O. Wilson & Whitney Battle-BaptisteArt & Music Swing Space, Second floorA conversation between leading scholars Whitney Battle-Baptiste and Mabel O. Wilson on the meaning of W. E. B. Du Bois's data portraits in our time and the Printing Black America proj...

07/17/2026

AAADS Faculty news
"Kellie Jones was among the distinguished speakers who delivered remarks at the opening of "Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing – a Tribute," the artist's most comprehensive retrospective to date, currently on exhibit at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive."

For the opening of Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing, the artist’s most comprehensive retrospective to date, central figures in Hassinger’s life and career offer tributes to the artist and her ongoing legacy. Tributes will be given by artists, curators, and art historians including Senga Ne...

07/17/2026

AAADS Faculty news
"Farah Jasmine Griffin delivered the Washington University in St. Louis Center for the Humanities African Diaspora Literature and Culture Guest Lecture earlier this year. Professor Griffin's talk was entitled, "Safe Harbor: Black Women and the Art of Friendship."
https://humanities.washu.edu/past-events/safe-harbor-black-women-and-art-friendship

07/17/2026

AAADS faculty news:
"Vanessa Agard-Jones contributed an essay entitled, "Gone to Ground," as part of Loophole of Retreat (Pacific Books), a collection of texts from Simone Leigh's 2022 Venice Biennale symposium on Black women's intellectual and creative labor, edited by Simone Leigh and Rashida Bumbray. Columbia & AAADS professors Saidiya Hartman and Mabel O. Wilson also contributed pieces to the volume. "

As a part of the United States Pavilion for the 2022 Venice Biennale (for which she won the Gold Lion), Simone Leigh (born 1967) organized a three-day symposium, "Loophole of Retreat," to take place during the exhibition. The title is drawn from a passage in the 1861 autobiography of Harriet Jacobs,...

07/17/2026

Article on AAADS faculty Edwidge Danticat

"Edwidge Danticat's newest novel, Dèy, will be published by Knopf in August. The book tells the story of Magnolia, a successful Haitian American real estate agent in Miami, whose sense of self and family are called into question when she is caught in a random act of violence."

From the bestselling author of Everything Inside comes a vivid, timely story, moving from Haiti to Brooklyn to Miami, of a woman whose sense of self and family are called into question when she gets caught...

04/10/2026

Congratulations to our wonderful AAADS faculty member & Queen Edwidge Danticat on receiving the PEN/ Nabakov award for Achievement in International Literature.

04/03/2026

Article by AAADS faculty, Dr. Brandi T. Summers -"Oakland and the Ghosts of Urbicide A specter of Blackness haunts Oakland, California, lingering palpably in cultural and material landscapes that have been shaped by generations of Black Oaklanders."

A specter of Blackness haunts Oakland, California, lingering palpably in cultural and material landscapes that have been shaped by generations of Black Oaklanders.

03/13/2026

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03/02/2026

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century guide includes a digital collection of published works by 19th-century black women writers,...