Black History / Studies

The Inaugural Caribbean Festival of Arts as Prism: 20th Century Festivals in the Multilingual Caribbean

Virtual Symposium: August 5-7, 2022

[EXTENDED] Deadline for Abstract Submission: June 1, 2022

Please send submissions to CarifestaAt50@gmail.com 

Call for Papers and Participation

This proposed special issue navigates the intersections of Black and Indigenous ecologies. Ecologies encompass natural and constructed environments, understories, and overstories that allow renewed attention to notions of mobility, modernity, protest, climate change, human and nonhuman relationality, and more.

The New Bedford Whaling Museum Announces Groundbreaking Exhibition:

We are seeking submissions for an edited collection tentatively entitled:

Memory, Struggle, Joy: Reimagining the Arts for Black, Indigenous & Racialized Children & Youth
Co-Editors: Dr. Stephanie Fearon (Toronto District School Board) & Jennifer Matsalla (Toronto District School Board)

Deadline for Abstracts (300 words) + Bio (75 words): June 6, 2022

(Press Release, May 4, 2022): The Ohio State University has collaborated with Getty Images, a preeminent global visual content creator and marketplace, to launch Picturing Black History,

Dear colleagues and friends,

Race and Histories of Technologies Prize

We are pleased to announce the newly established (2022) inaugural prize in Race and Histories of Technology:

Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences -- one of the industry’s most comprehensive events, exploring the critical conversations of our time -- returns virtually with a new and expanded roster of thought-provoking panels, presentations, speakers, and workshops.

THE MEDICI AND THE PERCEPTION OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA.

UCLA and Columbia University will be hosting on May 2, 3, and 9th, 2022 a virtual symposium - "Reimagining Sephardic Studies: Provocation from Outside the Fold" - that features graduate students, artists, journalists, and scholars who are working at the intersection of interdisciplines, including Jewish Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Postcolonial Studies. The conference features a keynote address from Dr. Joseph Sassoon, Professor and Director, Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University.