Department of African & African American Studies
Prof Janet Roitman, RMIT University, Australia "Finance and the Global South" Platform economies are depicted as the foundation of a new era of economic production. However, different assumptions are… read more about Digital Divides: Finance, the Biometric State and the Global South »
The Africa Initiative is delighted to host Mauro Bucci for a screening of his film, "Hotel Splendid," Tuesday, November 19. A Q&A session will follow the screening. "Hotel Splendid" is an… read more about Hotel Splendid: Movie and Q&A Session with Director Mauro Bucci »
The act of closely examining a photograph to extract factual insights, commonly referred to as "reading" in photography discourse, constitutes an epistemological practice. This lecture explores the… read more about Imaginary Maps: Feminist Art Beyond the Center »
Under Plessy v. Ferguson, in the days before desegregation, southern states were able to fund the graduate education of Black students by forming separate-but-equal programs at tax-supported HBCU's… read more about Left of Black Presents: "Small Talk at FHI" with Dr. Crystal Sanders »
In recent years, fungi have attracted popular imagination as a source for exploring new social relations, ethics and philosophy. The fungi's role as decomposers and relation builders in the ecosystem… read more about Decomposing the Twentieth Century with Mushrooms: The Emergence and the Challenges of “New Commons” in Japan »