CAU Summer Courses: From wine pairings to town-gown history
Registration is now open for the two sessions of weeklong offerings, with the option to stay in a newly renovated Balch Hall
Read moreIn the 21st century and nearly 55 years after its inception, the Africana Studies & Research Center remains committed to continuing academic innovation in the field of Africana studies and to remaining at its forefront theoretically and pedagogically, while sustaining its ongoing commitments to activism and community engagement.
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Africana Studies News
Nigeria's Tinubu 'should be commended' for accepting US counterterrorism assistance, says Cornell expert
Olúfémi Táíwò, professor of Africana studies, shares insight into Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu's deployment of an army battalion to central Kwara state after suspected jihadist fighters killed at least 170 people on Tuesday night, hours after the United States said it had a small number of troops...
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Composer Michael Abels, famous for work on Jordan Peele films, to visit March 6-7
Events include film screenings, panel discussions and a concert by the Barbara & Richard T. Silver Wind Symphony.
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How music galvanized the fight for civil rights 
Martin Luther King Jr.’s speeches tapped into a Black musical tradition that animated the Civil Rights Movement, says Ambre Dromgoole, assistant professor of Africana religions and music.
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Combining humanities and tech for research gains
An interdisciplinary project is sparking collaborations among those interested in digital approaches to the study of history, languages and culture.
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Redbones and racial nuance in Louisiana Lumber War
Klarman Fellow Kendall Artz wants to push beyond the assumption – one replicated by scholars – that company rosters and state records hold all there is to know about racial expression.
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Medical anthropologist to deliver annual Society for Humanities lecture
Stacey Langwick, associate professor of anthropology in the College of Arts & Sciences, will speak on "Healing in a Toxic World: Reimagining the Times and Spaces of the Therapeutic."
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African Union must condemn Madagascar coup, says Cornell expert
Olúfémi Táíwò, professor of Africana studies at Cornell University, said the move is another coup d’etat that Madagascar, and the African continent, does not need.
Read moreUpcoming Africana Events
Feb
18
Wednesday
04:00 PM
Book Talk - ILR Global Labor and Work Workshop - From Popular Front to Cold War: The Interracial Left and the International Workers Order, 1930–1954
Ives Hall
Doherty Lounge, 281 Faculty Wing
Mar
10
Tuesday
04:45 PM
Amiel Bize, "The Post-Agrarian Question”
Goldwin Smith Hall
G22
Mar
11
Wednesday
12:00 AM
Mar
19
Thursday
05:00 PM
May
22
Friday
12:00 AM
University Commencement Weekend
Schoellkopf Field
May
23
Saturday
12:00 AM
University Commencement Weekend
Schoellkopf Field