Please join us for the UWM French Program’s 23rd Annual Festival of French Films (February 14-23, 2020), screenings of Fahavalo and Zombi Child, co-sponsored by the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies.… Continue Reading »

DAADS Seminar Series | “Building an Equitable Wisconsin for African Americans” with Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes Mandela Barnes serves as Wisconsin’s 45th Lieutenant Governor. He was elected on November 8, 2018 and sworn into office on January 7, 2019. He … Continue Reading »

The Department of African & African Diaspora Studies (AADS) with support from the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies will host a panel in honor of Black Consciousness Day in Brazil on November 20th, 2019 at 5:00 p.m. in the Wisconsin Room at UWM’s Student Union. Three Brazilian scholars will discuss their research on Afro-Brazilian media and education. Dr. Sales Augusto dos Santos and Dr. Ivonete da Silva Lopes are visiting scholars in AADS at UWM and Dr. Alexandra Lima da Silva is a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champagne. … Continue Reading »

View upcoming events sponsored by the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies fall 2019. For more information, please contact Rachel Hegland at rhegland@uwm.edu or by calling (414) 229-4155.… Continue Reading »

Please join us at the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies Seminar this Friday, October 25th, 2019 @ 12:30 pm in the Winston Van Horne Conference Room, located in Mitchell Hall, room 206. Dr. Cloves Oliveira will present, “Why Black Rome has Never Elected a Black Mayor.”… Continue Reading »

Please join us for a special presentation of the Department of African and African Diaspora Seminar Series, “Building an Equitable Wisconsin for African Americans,” by Wisconsin’s Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes. The seminar will take place in the Garden Room at UWM’s Alumni House, Friday, October 11th, 2019,12:30-1:30 pm, followed by a reception. RSVP Required. … Continue Reading »

Please join us at the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies Seminar this Friday, September 27th, 2019 @ 1:00 pm in the Winston Van Horne Conference Room, located in Mitchell Hall, room 206. Dr. Sara VanderHaagen will present, “A Grand Sisterhood: Black American Women’s Rhetorics of Commemoration and Agency at the World’s Congress of Representative Women, 1893.” … Continue Reading »

Please join us for a special 50th Anniversary presentation of the African and African Diaspora Studies Seminar Series by Dalila Negreiros (PhD Student, African & African Diaspora Studies), with additional prerecorded material by Toni Johns (PhD Student, Urban Studies). The seminar will take place on April 26th, 2019 in the Winston Van Horne Conference Room, Mitchell Hall 206, from 12:30-1:30pm. … Continue Reading »

Please join us on April 25th, 2019 @ 7:00 pm as we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Black Studies at UW-Milwaukee. The event will be held in the Union-Wisconsin Room and include a keynote presentation from esteemed alumna and Harvard University Professor, Dr. Evelyn Higginbotham, as well as a panel discussion with Dr. Dan Burrell (student activist and first director of the Center for Afro-American Culture), Dr. Clayborn Benson, (UWM alumn and director of the Wisconsin Black Historial Society), and Dr. Charmane Perry (graduate of the department’s PhD program). … Continue Reading »