Events

Please join us for a discussion of new scholarly approaches to African masculinities and their public import, featuring:

Kwame Otu, Assistant Professor of African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. Trained as an anthropologist, Otu’s research focuses on sexual citizenship, queer of color theory, and critical human rights studies. His book manuscript is entitled Amphibious Subjects: Sassoi and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana. Otu wrote and starred in the short film “Reluctantly Queer.”   

Siphiwe Dube, Senior Lecturer in Political Studies at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. A scholar of African political theory, religion and politics, gender, and critical theory, Dube has written on topics ranging from ex-gay ministry, Black men in post-apartheid South Africa, masculinities in popular film, and transitional justice. He received his doctorate from the University of Toronto and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pretoria.

With discussant Norman Ajari, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. Ajari is a scholar of the philosophy of race, decolonial theory, and Continental philosophy, and he is the author of Dignity or Death? The Ethics and Politics of Race. He received his doctorate from the University of Toulouse and is a frequent commentator in French media on questions of race.

Sponsored by Villanova University’s Africana Studies Program

Join us via zoom on Tuesday, May 4, from 12:30 to 1:30 EST

Denise Buell (Cluett Professor of Religion, Williams College), discussing "Christianity as a Source of Racism: Some Implications and Challenges”

& Terrence Keel (Associate Professor of African American Studies, UCLA), discussing “Christianity, Race, and the Haunting of Life Science”

with responses from Katie Grimes (Associate Professor of Christian Ethics, Villanova) and Rev. Andre Price (doctoral student, Villanova)

Please register for this webinar and join us via Zoom on April 30 from 2 - 4 PM.

For more information, you can visit the Facebook event.

Join a discussion about Black Studies and Biblical Studies, with a focus on the relationship between scholarship and communal responsibility/activism, led by three experts:

Kenneth Ngwa, Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at Drew Theological School

Stacy Davis, Professor and Chair of Religious Studies, St. Mary’s College

Angela Parker, Assistant Professor of New Testament at McAfee School of Theology, Mercer University

Please register and join us via Zoom on April 19 from 3 - 4:15 PM.
 

We’ll be reading and discussing activist Charlene Carruthers’ book Unapologetic, about grassroots racial justice movements in recent years. If you are interested in joining, please email Sean (striplin@villanova.edu) by October 6; we can provide copies of the book to Villanova community members. Meeting schedule will be determined in consultation with those who indicate interest.

An interdisciplinary conference held virtually, organized by Olukunle Owolabi with Etienne Achille, featuring twenty leading scholars from North America, Europe, and Africa. November 6-7.

Registration is now open for our conference Sixty Years After Independence: Rethinking France's Colonial Legacy in Africa.

Register here.