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The UTC Africana Studies Program invites you to participate in this semester’s upcoming events including a Speaker Series with leading experts on Black women’s global activism, student-led discussions featuring prominent Chattanooga community leaders, and a Lunch Talk Series highlighting exciting and new UTC faculty research. You can find the full program schedule below.
February
“Slimming Down Soul Food: A Study of African American Cookbooks”
Dr. Mark Johnson, UTC Department of History and Africana Studies
Monday, February 8, 2021, 12:00 PM EST
Zoom: https://tennessee.zoom.us/j/98430764266
Password: 165214
UTC Student-Led Discussion with Councilwoman Demetrus Coonrod
Tuesday, February 23, 2021, 1:40 PM EST
Zoom: https://tennessee.zoom.us/j/95639939502
A collaboration with RISE (Responsive Initiatives for Social Empowerment)
UTC Art Virtual Speaker Series: Dr. Lyneise Williams (Wednesday, Feb. 24 @ 3:30-4:40pm)
Please join us for this semester’s first guest speaker in Art History: Dr. Lyneise Williams.
Dr. Williams’ talk will be on Wednesday, Feb. 24, at 3:30pm as part of “ART4190r: African American Art.” All are welcome to join via Zoom: https://tennessee.zoom.us/j/92898349834
March
“Building a Movement: Black Women Organizing in the (Global) South”
Dr. Keisha Blain, Associate Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh and the President of the African American Intellectual History Society
Monday, March 15, 2021, 4:00 PM EST
Zoom: https://tennessee.zoom.us/j/96394815303 / Password: 037413
This lecture is sponsored by the UTC Africana Studies Program, Women’s Studies Program, and Departments of History, English, and Political Science and Public Service.
UTC Student-Led Interview with School Board Member Karitsa Mosley-Jones
Tuesday, March 16, 2021, 1:40 PM EST
Zoom: https://tennessee.zoom.us/j/95639939502
In collaboration with RISE (Responsive Initiatives for Social Empowerment)
April
“Afro-Diasporic Kinships: Audre Lorde and Black German Women”
Dr. Tiffany Florvil, Associate Professor of 20th-century European Women’s and Gender History at the University of New Mexico
Monday, April 5, 2021, 7:30 PM EST
Zoom: https://tennessee.zoom.us/j/94441736101
Password: Password: 342445
This lecture is sponsored by the UTC Africana Studies Program, Women’s Studies Program, and Departments of History, English, and Political Science and Public Service.
Student-Led Interview with Executive Director and Co-Founder of RISE Shane Morrow
Tuesday, April 13, 2021, 10:50 AM EST
Zoom: https://tennessee.zoom.us/j/5348150118
In collaboration with RISE (Responsive Initiatives for Social Empowerment)
From Slave Cabin to Monument to the Slave Past
Wed., Apr. 14, 3:30
Discussion about Race and Health
Dr. Shewanee Howard Baptiste, Associate Professor and Interim Program Director, MPH
Monday, April 19, 2021, 12:00 PM EST
Zoom: https://tennessee.zoom.us/j/98430764266
Password: 165214