University of Rochester
Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African American Studies

Speaker Series

Date & Time

Location

Event

 

Wednesday, February 20, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Hawkins Carlson Reading Room, Rush Rhees Library

Achieving Equality in "Post-Racial" America

William Darity, Jr., Duke University

Wednesday, February 6, 2013
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Welles Brown Room and Hawkins Carlson Room, Rush Rhees Library

"Social Justice and Its Challenges"

Keynote Speaker: Yolanda Moses, University of California Riverside

RACE Poster

Friday, November 2, 2012
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM

Hawkins-Carlson Room, Rush Rhees Library

Stigma, Strength and Successes

The Story of Mental Illness and HIV/AIDS in the African-American Community

Friday, November 2, 2012
1:00 PM - 2:40 PM

Hawkins-Carlson Room, Rush Rhees Library

Stigma, Strength and Successes

The Story of Mental Illness and HIV/AIDS in the African-American Community

Thursday, September 27, 2012
5:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Visualizing Aids: sponsored by VCS/Joan Saab

Roderick A. Ferguson, Professor and Chair, Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota. FDI co-sponsor

HIV/AIDS and Social Justice in Black America

Wednesday, May 2, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Hawkins-Carlson Room, Rush Rhees Library

Mightier Than the Sword: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and American History

David Reynolds, Distinguished Professor of English City University of New York

Book cover

Wednesday, April 4, 2012
5:00 PM

Hawkins-Carlson Room, RRL

Shipwrecks: Travel, Gender, and Migrations (1788-2012)

Francoise Lionnet, UCLA

event poster