Month: October 2014

Africanist Graduate Student Research Conference at Michigan State University   The 8th Annual Africanist Graduate Student Research Conference will be held on October 17th and 18th, 2014 at International Center, Michigan State University. Professor Pius Adesanmi of Carleton University will present the keynote speech “For… Continue Reading 8th Annual MSU Africanist Grad Research Conf.

Graduate student Christine Neejer has published an article in the journal Intertexts. Neejer, Christine. (2014) “A Conservative Road: The Bicycling Rhetoric of Mary Sargent Hopkins.” Intertexts, vol 19, issue 1, 93-106. It is available on Project Muse.

Professor Ann Larabee (English, MSU) will deliver the first talk of this year’s Speaker Series. The title of the talk is “The Wrong Hands: Dangerous Instructional Speech, Violence and the Law.”   Prof. Larabee is an expert on radicalism and terrorism. Her publications include Decade… Continue Reading Speaker Series

On October 1, Jessica Marie Johnson joins faculty and students at Princeton University’s Center for African American Studies for a seminar on “Black Studies in the Digital Age.” She will be presenting a work-in-progress titled “Markup the Bodies: Black [Birth] and Slavery [Death] Studies at… Continue Reading Johnson to give talk at Princeton