Archive: Event Announcements

• Unmanning

  Tuesday, April 11, 2023  5:00 PM EST – In-Person Event Location: Arrupe Multipurpose Room (1st Floor), Georgetown University Main Campus RSVP Refreshments and snacks will served after the

  Categories: Event Announcements, G+JI Events Tags: gender justice, research news

• The Ella Jo Baker Distinguished Lecture with Loretta J. Ross

  Thursday, February 23, 2023 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM, In-Person Event ICC Auditorium, Georgetown University Main Campus The Department of African American Studies presents the Ella Jo Baker Distin

  Categories: Event Announcements, G+JI Events

• Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana

  Wednesday, Nov 30, 2022 – 5:00 PM ET – In-Person Event. Join us for a book talk on Georgetown Professor Kwame Edwin Otu’s book, Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making.

  Categories: Event Announcements, G+JI Events

• Black is the Journey, Africana the Name

  Thursday, November 17, 2022 – 5:00 PM EST – In-Person Event. Join us in welcoming scholar and professor Maboula Soumahoro for a lecture and conversation on her book Black is the Journey, Africana the Name (Polity, 2022), received the FetKann! Maryse Condé literary prize in 2020.

  Category: Lectures

• Gender and Sexuality in Algerian Rai Music

  WATCH VIDEO | Thursday, November 3, 2022 – 1:00 PM ET – Virtual Event. Join is in welcoming dance artist and educator Esraa Warda for a lecture entitled: ‘Gender and Sexuality in Algerian Rai Music’. Known as the “rebel blues”, Raï is one of Algeria’s noteworthy movements of independent artists that have been historically marginalized and stigmatized.

  Category: Lectures

• The Janes: Screening and Discussion with Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes

  Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022 – 5:00PM ET – In-Person Event.
  Join us in welcoming directors, Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes for a screening and discussion about their latest documentary: The Janes

  Category: Lectures

• After Dobbs: the Assault on Reproductive Justice and Equality 

  WATCH VIDEOS | Friday Sept. 16, 2022 – 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM ET – Virtual Event. Join us for a series of multi-disciplinary panels and interactive discussions with leading scholars, activists, practitioners, and elected officials about the Supreme Court’s decision, decimated the fundamental right to abortion and bodily autonomy.

  Categories: Home, Lectures

• BLM France: Black and Brown Women’s Fight for Racial Justice

  WATCH VIDEO | Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022 – 5:00 PM EST – In-Person Event. Join us in welcoming Rokhaya Diallo, Maboula Soumahoro and Jean Beaman for a conversation on racial justice and police violence in France. The discussion will center the Black and Brown women leading the fight against systemic racism and violence.

  Category: Lectures Tags: black women, feminism, racial justice

• Bootyful: Screening and Discussion with Rokhaya Diallo

  WATCH VIDEO | Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022 – 5 PM EST – In-Person Event. Join us in welcoming Rokhaya Diallo for a screening and discussion about one of her latest documentaries: Bootyful (2021). From France to the United States via Brazil, Bootyful reveals the history and body politics behind the global craze for a certain type of voluptuous “derriere”.

  Category: Lectures

• The Legacy of Kathleen Collins and the Future of Black Women Filmmaking

  Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022 – 5:00 PM ET – In-Person Event.
  Join us for a book talk with L.H. Stallings and Nina Lorez Collins about Kathleen Collins’s work and the future of Black women filmmaking.

  Category: Lectures