Announcements

 



AADS student Sarah Labbé awarded the first Karell Travel Grant
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Dr. Donna Weir-Soley has authored a new book entitled Eroticism, Spirituality, and Resistance in Black Women's Writings
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AADS organizes October 30th Symposium & West African Dinner Soirée
"Globalization, the ‘Crisis’ of Capitalism, and the Obama Presidency: African and African Diasporic Perspectives on Multiculturalism and Cosmopolitan Conviviality"

  • Amiri Baraka, Monopoly Capitalism and the Obama Presidency
  • Kamiri Clarke, Blackness in an Age of Global Capitalism, Humanitarianism and "New" African Diasporic Formations
  • Carlos Moore, Opening up Cuba to the Global Economy: Fostering Democracy or Re-Empowering Cuba’s Former Elite by Proxy?
  • Francis Abiola Irele, An Identity of Passions

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Summer 2010 Study Abroad Program in Senegal and The Gambia.
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During the summer of 2009, Dr. Alex Lichtenstein spent six weeks teaching South African history at the University of Cape Town, in South Africa….
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Dr. Dionne Stephens has been awarded the 2009 Carolyn Payton Early Career Award by the American Psychological Association (APA)...
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Dr. Jean Muteba Rahier to give lecture at international conference organized to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Ecuadorian Independence...
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Ava Purkiss, M.A. student, received the FIU College of Arts and Sciences Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement in African and African Diaspora Studies
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AADS receives gift from Karell’s African Dream Vacations to fund academic travel to Africa...
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