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Duke University's Department of African & African American Studies Celebrates 50th Anniversary with Speaker Series Highlighting Black Studies Alumni

AAAS Speaker Series Highlights Duke Black Studies Alumby Camille Jackson | @Camille225 | special to NewBlackMan (in Exile) 

On Wednesday afternoon the Department of African & African American Studies launched its 50th anniversary speaker series with Duke University alumnus Ashon Crawley (Ph.D., 13). Professor Crawley, currently Associate Professor of Religious Studies and African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia, delivered a talk, “Migration Stories and the Hammond Sound,” in Moyle Room of the newly opened Karsh Alumni and Visitor’s Center (2080 Duke University Rd., Durham). He is the author of Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility.

Each month, throughout the 2019-2020 academic year, the department of African & African American Studies will host a lecture by scholars who have been immersed in Black Studies at while at Duke. All of the talks will be held at 4:30 p.m. in the Karsh Center.  
“The series is an opportunity to acknowledge the impact of Black Studies on the Duke University campus, and there’s no better way to do that than to highlight the fine scholars whose research was directed by current and former members of AAAS faculty, said Mark Anthony Neal, the James B. Duke Professor of African & African American Studies and chair of the department. “The scholars presenting in the series have emerged as some of the leading voices in the field of Black Diaspora Studies.”

For more information on the Department of African & African American Studies, visit aaas.duke.edu.







AAAS 50th Anniversary Speaker Series

Oct. 14 Courtney R. Baker, Ph.D. ‘08, University of California, Riverside

Nov. 11 Patrick Alexander, Ph.D. ‘12, University of Mississippi

Dec. 4 Kinohi Nishikawa, Ph.D. ‘10, Princeton University

Jan. 30 Candis Watts Smith, Ph.D. ‘11, Penn State

Feb. 27 Candice Jenkins, WSTC ‘01, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

TBA Danny Hoffman, Ph.D. ‘04, University of Washington

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