Launch of the Center for Black European Studies and the Atlantic

Announced by the Global Studies Center

The Center for Black European Studies and the Atlantic is a crucial tool to highlight the transatlantic circulations and (dis)continuity between Black Europe, Africa and the Americas. Research and educational programs will tie these trends to history, politics and policy making through conferences; the production of edited volumes and other scholarly publications; postdoctoral fellowships; the constitution of the first-ever electronic database on Blackness in Europe and a number of activities to foster and strengthen collaboration between scholars, educators, policy makers and communities worldwide.

We will celebrate the Arts, Humanities and Global Black Studies with scholars, artists, legislators and curators from Cabo Verde, France, Portugal, Brazil, Belgium, the United States, Senegal, Mali, Martinique and the Netherlands.

Keynote
Noémie Ndiaye, University of Chicago
“How to Enslave an Unenslavable Person: Afro-Muslim Splittings in Early Modern Drama”
Wednesday, April 24
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
(Reception to follow)

Conferences - Workshops

Thursday, April 25
9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Friday, April 26
9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.