Work-In-Progress Seminar

The Frederick Douglass Institute’s Work in Progress Seminar Series is a multi-disciplinary seminar touching upon Africa and its Diaspora. The seminars offer an engaging environment wherein graduate students and faculty working in the broad area of African and African-American Studies present and discuss on their ongoing research.

Spring 2010

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 12:30-2:00pm, Hawkins Carlson Seminar Room GerShun Avilez, FDI Postdoctoral Fellow, U. of Penn.(English) "Racial Fantasies: Blackness, Agency, and the Aesthetic Value of Whiteness"
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 12:30-2:00pm, Hawkins Carlson Seminar Room Daniel J. Broyld, PhD student, Howard University (History) "In Search of Political Agendy: Blacks in Rochester, New York and St. Catharines, Ontario, 1850-1860"

Fall 2009

Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Eldred Chimowitz, Chemical Engineering
The Menorah and the Fever Tree, Coming-of-age in Colonial Southern Africa: An Autobiographical Novel
12:30 PM, Hawkins Carlson Seminar Room (RRL)

 

Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Karen Martino, Program of Movement & Dance
Cultural UPheaval
12:30 PM, Hawkins Carlson Reading Room (RRL)

Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Johanna Almiron, FDI Pre-Doctoral Fellow
Defacement: Portraits of Racial violence in the Age of Graffiti by Jean-Michel Basquiat
12:30 PM, Hawkins Carlson Seminar Room (RRL)

Refreshments will be served.