The Department of African and African Diaspora Studies (AADS) at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee invites you to our first 2020-21 webinar event with Representative David Bowen, where he will discuss policy issues he thinks most important for Black Milwaukee followed by a Q&A discussion.

The Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) will host a virtual event for an exciting conversation with 88.9 Radio Milwaukee's Tarik Moody and journalist Reggie Jackson on their new podcast about systemic racism, By Every Measure. The virtual event will take place on September 25 @ 3:30-5:30 pm and African & African Diaspora Studies professor Anika Wilson will moderate their talk.

Join us for our free webinar " Black History & Black Politics in Milwaukee" with Clayborn Benson, founder of the Wisconsin Black Historical Society in Milwaukee. This is the first event in our webinar series, “Black History and Black Activism in Brazil & the U.S,” co-sponsored by the Black Student Cultural Center at UWM. Click here to register for this webinar event.

Please join us as Dr. Levine (former advisor on HBO's The Wire) presents his report just release on the socio-economic conditions on Black Milwaukee, covered by CNN, NY TIme, Wall Street Journal, NPR, and others. Free registration required. Click here to register.

Dr. Hundle is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Dhan Kaur Sahota Presidential Chair of Sikh Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She will present a talk on her forthcoming book manuscript, "Insecurities of Expulsion: Afro-Asian Citizenship Formations and Global Uganda." The project explores the complicated contradictions between the unresolved historical event of the postcolonial expulsion of Ugandan Asians and a new post-1990s landscape of neoliberal capitalist empire which engages the sub-imperialist ambitions of BRICS nations alongside a remaking of Afro-Asian discourses. Click here to register!

Flavia Rios (Ph.D, USP) is a Professor of Sociology at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Brazil. She was a Visiting Student Reasearcher Collaborator (VSRC) in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University (2013). Her main interests are Social Movements, racial inequalities, Affirmative Actions and Black thought. Flavia’s current research focuses on intersections between gender, race and democracy Click here to register.

Join us for an upcoming webinar with Dr. Jason W. Moore on Nov. 6th, 2020. He will discuss Climate, Class, and Colonialism in the making of the Planetary Crisis. Click here to register.

Jackline Kirungi (Ph.D. student in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at UWM) will explore gender, marriage, family, and racism in different communities. In Uganda, she researched gender and health, gender and education in adolescents, gender and feminism studies in Africa, gender and migration, gender and local government, and water.

Join African & African Diaspora Studies and our campus partners for one or both of these free webinars on virtual internships next month.