Mar 8, 2021
Damareo Cooper, Community Organizer
Africana Studies was pleased to invite Damaero Cooper to speak to the Lafayette community on February 19, 2021. In January Cooper was on the ground in…
Events
Mar 9, 2020
The David L. Sr. and Helen J. Temple Visiting Lecture Series presents Mark Thomas Gibson on March 26, 2020
The Africana Studies Program, through the David L., Sr. and Hellen J. Temple Visiting Lecture Series Fund, is pleased to welcome Mark Thomas Gibson to…
Apr 17, 2019
Visit from filmmaker Zadi Zokou, April 17, 2019
On April 17th, Africana Studies is hosting filmmaker Zadi Zokou; this event is cosponsored by the student group LACSA. Zadi Zokou’s documentary Black…
Sep 26, 2018
President and Nobel Laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf served as the 24th President of Liberia from 2006 to 2018, and was the first elected female head of state in Africa. She is a Nobel…
Sep 20, 2018
The David L. Sr. and Helen J. Temple Visiting Lecture Series presents Charles Burwell
Charles Burwell holds an MFA from Yale University School of Art. He is represented by Bridgette Mayer Gallery in Philadelphia, PA. His work is represented…
Aug 30, 2017
A Journey Through Slavery at the Whitney Plantation-The 2017 David L., Sr. and Helen J. Temple Visiting Lecture Series in Africana Studies
Click Here for a review of Dr. Seck’s lecture that appeared in The Lafayette Lecture: A Journey Through Slavery at the Whitney Plantation When: Wednesday…
Oct 25, 2016
The 2016 David L., Sr. and Helen J. Temple Visiting Lecture Series welcomes artist and historian Alison Saar
Alison Saar’s exhibition titled, “BREACH” is the culmination of her creative research into American rivers and their historical relationship to the lives…
Apr 5, 2016
Poet Thierno Seydou Sall Visits from Dakar, Senegal
Senegalese poet Thierno Seydou Sall has been writing poetry since he was a small child, when, he says, “my head was full of crazy ideas” that he felt set…
Mar 21, 2016
Modern African Dancer Brayo Judah Offers Dance Workshop
Kenneth Kimani, known professionally as Brayo Judah, is one of the most widely sought after dancers in the Modern African dance industry. Dancing for almost…
Feb 29, 2016
Digital Reach by Dr. Sylviane Diouf, Curator of Digital Schomburg and Director of the Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery
Sylviane A. Diouf is an award-winning historian of the African Diaspora. She is the author of Slavery’s Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons and…