ASI Book Talks are collaborative events that bring together core and affiliate faculty from Africana Studies and the home department of a joint appointment, as well as undergraduate majors and minors in respective research areas, for an intellectual book discussion on a monthly basis during the semester.
2024 ASI Faculty Book Talks
Africana February Book Talk
The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown
Dr. Martha Cutter, Professor of Africana Studies and English
Tales from DuBois: The Queer Intimacy of Cross-Caste Romance
Dr. Erika Williams, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and English
Co-sponsored with the Department of English
February 14th, 2024, 2:00pm-3:15pm in Austin 217/The Stern Room
Africana March Book Talk
Migrants Who Care: West Africans Working and Building Lives in U.S. Health Care
Dr. Fumilayo Showers, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Sociology
March 27th, 2024, 4pm in the CLAS 1947 Room in the Homer Babbidge Library
Co-sponsored with the Department of Sociology
Africana April Book Talk
America's Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of Confederacy
Dr. Jeffery Ogbar, Professor of Africana Studies and History
Jubilee's Experiment: The British West Indies and American Abolitionism
Dr. Dexter Gabriel, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and History
Co-sponsored with the Department of History
April 17, 2024, 2:00pm-3:15pm in Oak 408