Exciting News Out of AAAS!
Professor Mark Anthony Neal will serve on the Duke University Press Editorial Advisory Board for the next three years, and visiting instructor Bradley Simmons' Fall 2011 course evaluations were among the top 5% of all undergraduate instructors at Duke. Congratulations to them both!
Creating S.T.E.M. Researchers in the “Hood” and Combating Obesity in Black Communities on the April 23rd ‘Left of Black’
Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype by Professor Christopher Emdin, Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology at Teachers College—Columbia University, where he also serves as Director of Secondary School Initiatives at the Urban Science Education Center. The author of Urban…
The Young & the Digital at Black Thought 2.0
by Evelyn Howell|The Triangle Tribune DURHAM - Advancements in new technology have allowed today's young users to connect with their friends and the outside world fast. Twitter, texting, YouTube and Facebook are all popular new media networking tools. "Mobile is considered the gateway. It's more pronounced in their lives and…
Political Power of Social Media Extolled at Duke
By Lynn Bonner - lbonner@newsobserver.com DURHAM Blogs, Twitter and online petitions are forceful tools that activists can use to galvanize support for local and national causes, participants at a Duke University forum said Saturday. Social media can quickly draw attention to issues and lead to national and international news…
Resetting Black Thought in the Age of Social Media
by Camille Jackson | Duke Today Scholars will discuss how social media enhances their teaching and allows them to reach new audience Durham, NC - What would have happened if NAACP co-founder W.E.B. DuBois had Twitter? Or Harriet Tubman or any number of great black leaders of the past? Social…
What If Du Bois had Twitter? Trailer for Black Thought 2.0 Conference
Black Thought 2.0: New Media and the Future of Black Studies April 6-7, 2012Duke UniversityThe John Hope Franklin Center Black Thought 2.0 will focus on the roles of digital technology and social media in furthering the mission of Black Studies. The conference will specifically explore how scholars are using technologies…
Thomas F. DeFrantz: ‘Not Just Dance’
DURHAM, NC - Dancing is not just a fun way to spend Saturday night. It's also a rigorous academic discipline. Thomas F. DeFrantz, a Duke University professor of African and African American studies and dance, is an expert on how African American dances have evolved to reshape our world,…
Left of Black S2:E25 | The Death of Trayvon Martin and the “Fictions” of Black Leadership | March 26, 2012
The Death of Trayvon Martin and the “Fictions” of Black Leadership Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype© by R.L’Heureux Lewis, Professor of Sociology and Black Studies at the City University of New York and Mary Morten, consultant for the Morten Group in Chicago…
Hearing Trayvon Die
by Mark Anthony Neal | NewBlackMan There is dramatic moment in the film Cadillac Records, when musician Muddy Waters, portrayed by Jeffrey Wright, has just watched the body of fellow musician Little Walter (Columbus Short) taken away to the morgue. Little Walter was more than Waters’ wingman—he was critical to…
Black Thought 2.0: New Media & the Future of Black Studies Conference, April 6-7
April 6-7, 2012, John Hope Franklin CenterBlack Studies 2.0 will focus on the roles of digital technology and social media in furthering the mission of Black Studies. The conference will specifically explore how scholars are using technologies to further their research, do collaborative forms of scholarship and activism, and to…
Feb. 23: AAAS Graduate Student Working Group
The Duke African and African American Studies Graduate Student Working Group invites you to a talk by English doctoral candidate Patrick Elliot Alexander on Thursday, Feb. 23. The event will take place at 5 p.m. in 225 Friedl Building on East Campus. Light refreshments will be served. Alexander’s presentation…
Panel: Groups and Identity: New Opportunities, New Problems? featuring William 'Sandy' Darity and Tyrone Forman
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford UniversityCross Talk: Groups and Identity: New Opportunities, New Problems? Participants: William Darity CASBS Fellow, Economics, Chair African & African American Studies Duke University Tyrone Forman CASBS Fellow, Sociology, Emory University Dina Okamoto CASBS Fellow, Sociology, UC Davis Emily Ozer…
***UPDATE: Visiting Professor Karen E. Fields: Short-term Residency at the FHI***
We’re excited to announce Visiting Professor of African and African American Studies Karen E. Fields’ short-term residency at the FHI this February. For this short-term residency, Fields will be offering a public lecture as well as two seminars with students and faculty: Seminar, "What Durkheim Means by 'Religion' in…
Poet Nikky Finney Reading & Discussion w/ Thavolia Glymph
Thursday, Feb 16, 4:00pm, FHI Garage: AAAS, The Atlantic Studies Group, Women's Studies, Office of the Dean of Humanities, and theFHI are co-sponsoring a reading by poet Nikky Finney with discussion with Thavolia Glymph and Michael Taussig. More information here:http://fhi.duke.edu/events/nikky-finney-reading