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African Studies Center Language Fair 2023

Sonja Haynes Stone Center, Hitchcock Multipurpose Room 150 South Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Celebrate African Languages at UNC-Chapel Hill. The African Language Fair has become one of UNC’s traditions of celebrating Africa’s linguistic and cultural presence on campus. This year’s event will be mostly in-person with student performances and guest artists. Swahili (Jabali … Read more

Jewish Vengeance During and After the Holocaust

Sonja Haynes Stone Center, Hitchcock Multipurpose Room 150 South Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Annual Holocaust Remembrance Day Lecture Kaplan-Brauer Lecture in Jewish Studies with Dr. Laura Jockusch, Brandeis University. “If you survive, you must take revenge”: Jewish vengeance during and after the Holocaust Revenge was ubiquitous among European Jews during the Holocaust. It … Read more

Douglass Hunt Lecture: Feminist and African: Women’s Resistance to Gendered Pacification

Sonja Haynes Stone Center, Hitchcock Multipurpose Room 150 South Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Africa’s postcolonial states continue to exhibit profound contradictions in the arena of gender politics. While women’s movements have successfully pursued a great many legal and policy reforms, the implementation of new laws and policies remains very challenging, as state structures … Read more

Joshua C. Davis, ‘Black-Owned Bookstores: Their Struggle for Survival and Revival’

Sonja Haynes Stone Center, Hitchcock Multipurpose Room 150 South Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Recent scholarship has rediscovered the pioneering role of Black bookstores, an often-overlooked element in the story of Black community development and Black empowerment in the U.S. The Stone Center’s 2019 African Diaspora Lecture and Roundtable brings together former and current … Read more

2019 Writer’s Discussion Series: Black Queer Southern Women

Sonja Haynes Stone Center, Hitchcock Multipurpose Room 150 South Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Drawn from the life narratives of more than seventy African American queer women who were born, raised and continue to reside in the American South, this book powerfully reveals the way these women experience and express racial, sexual, gender and … Read more