Month: October 2013

Tim Retzloff, Ph.D candidate at Yale University will deliver a talk titled “Following Their Sex Drive: Detroit’s Urban Gay Space and the Queer Sexual Commute, 1945-1965”. The talk will be held on Thursday, October 31st in 255 Old Horticulture.

The Football Scholars Forum opens its new season on Thursday, October 24, at 3:30pm with a discussion of Prof. Alegi’s new book, co-edited with Chris Bolsmann, titled Africa’s World Cup: Critical Reflections on Play, Patriotism, Spectatorship, and Space (University of Michigan Press, 2013).   As is customary with FSF,… Continue Reading Football Scholars Forum Opens 2013-14 Season with Africa’s World Cup

Professor Nwando Achebe’s The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe has been awarded a third book prize. Named in honor of Ama Ata Aidoo, the celebrated Ghanaian writer, and Margaret Snyder, founder of UNIFEM, the Aidoo-Snyder book prize is awarded by the Women’s Caucus… Continue Reading Nwando Achebe’s The Female King of Colonial Nigeria wins third book award

Dr. Holden’s current work on Southampton County foregrounds the community that produced the rebellion to better understand the local experience of loss, grief, and slave resistance. Central to her approach is the place of African American women, free and enslaved, in that community. Dr. Holden’s… Continue Reading “Free Issues”: Free Women of Color in Nat Turner’s Southampton County presented by Dr. Vanessa Holden