African Studies and Black Studies: Intersections, Genealogies and New Directions

The symposium, "African Studies and Black Studies: Intersections, Genealogies and New Directions," brings together scholars who think from a numbers of disciplines and transdisciplinarily about the possibilities that come with working at the intersection of African Studies and Black Studies. While they are distinct fields with their own trajectories and genealogies Black Studies and African Studies have historically shared a number of important concerns; particularly around how racialization relates to state formation and sovereignty and how the historical and contemporary experiences of migration and diaspora have shaped the formation of identity, nationally and globally, among African and African descended people. More recently, scholars across these fields have engaged with the planetary crises associated with climate change and the Anthropocene as symptomatic of the ongoing lives of racial capitalism and its colonial remains. This global view of blackness both acknowledges and complicates national frameworks as privileged sites of knowledge-making while invoking the possibility of Global Black Studies. PRESENTERS: Kamari Clarke, University of Toronto. (Keynote) Yousuf Al-Bulushi, UC, Irvine. Rafael Cesar, Princeton University. Shared Chari, UC, Berkeley. Errol Henderson, Independent Scholar. Tsitsi Ella Jaji, Duke University. Jasmine E. Johnson, University of Pennsylvania. Jordanna Matlon, American University. Sabine Mohamed, Johns Hopkins University. Adanna Ogbonna-Oluikpe, Louisiana State Univ. Matthew Omelsky, University of Rochester. Christopher Ouma, Duke University. Kristin Phillips, Emory University. Walter C. Rucker, Emory University. Natasha Shivji, University of Cape Town. See the full program, RSVP for in-person, or register for Zoom option at https://sites.duke.edu/bail/events/african-studies-and-black-studies-intersections-genealogies-and-new-directions/