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.

Events scheduled for Fall Semester 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.