News & Events

In addition to the special 40th anniversary section of our website including the lectures and panel discussions featuring scholars who spoke in 2009, joining us in celebrating 40 years at Rutgers, we provide the list below of a series of events and lectures sponsored by the Department of Africana Studies.

In addition to the special 40th anniversary section of our website including the lectures and panel discussions featuring scholars who spoke in 2009, joining us in celebrating 40 years at Rutgers, we provide the list below of a series of events and lectures sponsored by the Department of Africana Studies.

Title
Call for Proposals – International Gullah Geechee and African Diaspora Conference
Job Opportunity – Douglass College – Fall 2018
Professor Bethel promotes the Life and Legacy of Layle Lane
DeenTight: A Documentary
Africana Studies Sponsors New Jersey Premiere of Kinyarwanda, winner of the World Cinema Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival
Fortieth Anniversary Gala and Retirement Celebration for Dr. Leonard L. Bethel
Matthew Bishop, American Editor of the Economist, participates in a mini-symposium of The New Philanthropy: Prospects and Challenges
Professor Gerald Horne lectures on hisotrical forces in Kenya and Hawaii as a background story to understand the election of President Barack Obama