Past Presentations

 Learn from the Past: Lectures and Performances from Previous Years
Africana Studies often works with other programs and institutions to present interesting event series which will provoke thoughtful dialogue among the various campus communities. Please click on any semester link for a sampling of what we have brought to campus:

Spring 2009
Fall 2008
Spring 2008
Fall 2007
Spring 2007
Fall 2006

In the 2004/2005 academic year, "The Black Presence in Latin America and the Caribbean," with Latin American Studies:

• Roundtable focusing on the implications of Haiti's struggle for independence for the past, present and future of that country;
• Lecture on "The African Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean," with related film showings;

Performance by the Afro-Cuban band "Makina Loca" (meaning "crazy machine" in Spanish and "dancing in a trance" in Kikongo).

Also in the 2004/2005 academic year, "Black Feminism," with Women's Studies:

• Art exhibit featuring the works of Lori Crawford, titled Bag It;
• Lecture by Michele Faith Wallace, "Black Feminist Generations;"

• Black Feminism Roundtable

In the 2003/2004 academic year, with the Central Pennsylvania Consortium, a Conference at Gettysburg College themed "Globalizations and the African World."

The conference featured a poetry slam, an art exhibition, and musical performances from Gettysburg College's World Music Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble, and Majestic Jazz Orchestra (this last with an original work, Axiom Asunder, by Gettysburg College's own Buzz Jones!)

Also in the 2003/2004 academic year, African American Studies hosted a campus discussion on growing up biracial in the United States.

In the 2002/2003 academic year:

• Dr. Patrick Wolfe from the University of Melbourne, Australia, spoke on "Racial Formation in a Comparative International Perspective;"
• Lisa Green from the University of Texas at Austin spoke on "African American English and its Speakers: Legitimacy and Socio-Political Issues;"
• Visiting professor Sandra Staton and baritone Robert Sims, gold medal winner of the ENMARK American Traditions Competition, presented a reading of Souls of Black Folk and recital of appropriate Spirituals, respectively;
• Emily Grosholz, Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies, and James Stewart, Vice Provost for Educational Equity and Professor of Labor Studies and Industrial Relations and African and African American Studies at Penn State University, participated in a special discussion/lecture program entitled Examining the Continued Relevance of Souls of Black Folks, a Hundred Years after Publication.

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