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
![The booke cover of the many resurrections of henry box brown.](https://africana.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3769/2024/02/the-many-resurrections-of-henry-box-brown-280x400.jpg)
![Book cover for Tales from Du Bois](https://africana.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3769/2024/02/Tales-from-Du-Bois-266x400.jpg)
![IMG_4776 Attendees from 2/14 faculty book talk.](https://africana.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3769/2024/02/IMG_4776-scaled-1920x1080.jpg)
![IMG_4768 Dr. Simien speaking at the 2/14 Africana Book Talk](https://africana.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3769/2024/02/IMG_4768-scaled-1920x1080.jpg)
![IMG_4799 Erika Williams at the 2/14 Africana Book Talk](https://africana.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3769/2024/02/IMG_4799-scaled-1920x1080.jpg)
![IMG_4781 Martha Cutter speaking at the 2/14 Faculty Book Talk](https://africana.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3769/2024/02/IMG_4781-scaled-1920x1080.jpeg)
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
![Book cover for Migrants who care](https://africana.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3769/2024/02/Migrants-who-care-267x400.jpg)
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
![A book cover entitled "america's black capital" featuring a historical photograph of african americans with the subtitle "how african americans remade atlanta in the shadow of the confederacy" by jeffrey o. g. ogbar.](https://africana.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3769/2024/02/ogbars-book.jpg)
![Book cover for Jubilee's Experiment The British West Indies and American Abolitionism by Dexter J. Gabriel](https://africana.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3769/2024/02/Jubilees-Experiment-The-British-West-Indies-and-American-Abolitionism-Slaveries-since-Emancipation-264x400.jpg)