W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Alumni Fellows Virtual Reading Series
Past Lectures in this Series
Keisha Blain: 'Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights'
October 20, 2025
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction: African American Women Writing Under Segregation
Feb 10, 2025
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12:00PM EST
Sarah Nuttall, 'Hydrocolonialism and Pluviality: Reading for Rain in the African South'
Apr 22, 2024
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12:00PM EDT
Matthew D. Morrison, 'Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States'
Mar 25, 2024
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12:00PM EDT
Juliet Hooker, 'Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss'
Nov 20, 2023
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12:00PM EST
Sinclair Bell, 'Figures of Empire: Statuettes of Aethiopian Boys and the Sexual Economy of Roman Slavery'
Nov 13, 2023
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12:00PM EST
Nancy Jacobs, 'The Global Grey Parrot'
Nov 6, 2023
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12:00PM EST
Nii Ayikwei Parkes, 'Tangible Absences: Ruminations and Work/In Progress'
Oct 30, 2023
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12:00PM EDT
Derron Wallace, 'The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth'
Oct 2, 2023
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12:00PM EDT
Romeo Oriogun, 'Every Moment Counts; a Poetry Reading and Meditation on Exile and Belonging'
Apr 3, 2023
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12:00PM EDT
Todd Carmody, 'Work Requirements: Race, Disability, and the Print Culture of Social Welfare'
Mar 20, 2023
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12:00PM EDT
Marixa Lasso, 'Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama Canal'
Mar 6, 2023
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12:00PM EST
Kinitra D. Brooks, 'The Roots of Black Southern Religious Traditions'
Feb 27, 2023
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12:00PM EST
Robyn D’Avignon, 'A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa'
Feb 6, 2023
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12:00PM EST
Bill Schwarz, 'Double Exposure: Race in Britain after Windrush'
Nov 21, 2022
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12:00PM EST
Christa Clarke, 'The Activist Collector: Lida Clanton Broner’s 1938 Journey from Newark to South Africa'
Nov 14, 2022
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12:00PM EST
Rumbi Katedza, 'Transactions, a film'
Nov 7, 2022
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12:00PM EST
Kaysha Corinealdi, 'Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century'
Oct 24, 2022
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12:00PM EDT
Rita Freed, 'Ancient Nubian Art: A History'
Oct 17, 2022
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12:00PM EDT
Treva B. Lindsey, 'America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice'
Apr 8, 2022
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1:00PM EDT
Belinda Edmondson, 'Creole Noise: Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and Performance'
Mar 25, 2022
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1:00PM EDT
Mark R. Warren, 'Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline'
Feb 18, 2022
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1:00PM EST
Shadreck Chirikure, 'Great Zimbabwe: Reclaiming a ‘Confiscated’ Past'
Feb 11, 2022
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1:00PM EST
Patricia Sullivan, 'Justice Rising: Robert Kennedy’s America in Black and White'
Feb 4, 2022
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1:00PM EST
Thomas Healy, 'Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of American Utopia'
Dec 3, 2021
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1:00PM EST
Julie Kleinman, 'Adventure Capital: Migration and the Making of an African Hub in Paris'
Oct 29, 2021
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1:00PM EDT
Bettina Love, 'We Want to Do More Than Survive'
Oct 15, 2021
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1:00PM EDT