January 30, 2008 3‑5pm in the 2nd floor Graduate Student Lounge in Blocker.  A joint meeting with the Africana Studies Working Group and the Empire and After Working Group.  We will be discussing Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

February 11, 2008 6:00pm at Dr. Kimberly Brown's house.  A joint meeting with the Africana Studies and American Studies Working Groups.  We will be discussing Adam Mansbach's novel, The Angry Black White Boy.

March 3, 2008 6:00pm, 4:00‑6:00pm in the 2nd floor Graduate Student Lounge in Blocker.  A joint meeting with the Africana Studies and American Studies Working Groups.    We will be discussing Sam Greenlee's book The Spook Who Sat by the Door.

February 21, 2008 3:30pm, Whitley Suite in Evans Library.  Dr. Farnce Winddance Twine (Prof. of Sociology at UC‑Santa Barbara), "Hair, Habitus, and Home Cooking: The Cultural Production of Blackness."  The event is co-sponsored with the Africana Studies Program and the Race and Ethnic Studies Institute.

February 28, 2008 7:00pm, Place TBA. Africana Studies Lecture Series features Dr. Carol Boyce Davies.  Caribbean and Africana specialist, she is the author of Black Women, Writing and Identity: Migrations of the Subject (Routledge 1994) and Left of Karl Marx: Claudia Jones, Black/Communist/Woman (Duke 2007).  Dr. Boyce Davies is Professor of English and African-New World Studies at Florida International University.  She will join the faculty of Cornell University in Fall 2008.

February 29, 2008 7:30 pm, Fallout Theatre, 144 Blocker, Daniel Alexander Johnson, Playwright/performer.  Sponsored by the Performance Studies Department, the English Department Creative Writing Program and the Africana Studies Program.   Lecture/demonstration ‑ "Experience Expansion: Notes from a Road Less Traveled."  After the performance, Mr. Jones will do a Q&A.