Events
Registration required even by CU/BC ID holders. Registration closes November 7.
Cosponsors
- The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities
- Arts and Sciences Graduate Council
- Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
- Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies
- Department of Africana Studies (Barnard College)
- Department of Anthropology
- Department of French
- Department of Germanic Languages
- Department of History
- Department of Political Science
- European Institute
- Small Axe Project
- Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy
Organizer
- Rochelle Malcolm (PhD candidate, History), Mayaki Kimba (PhD candidate, Political Science), and Zarino Lanni (PhD student, Anthropology)
Notes
- Free and open to the public
- Registration required.
- Image Credit/Caption: Image source: ANEFO, National Archives of the Netherlands
Black Europe: A Field on the Move is a one-day, interdisciplinary conference open to the Columbia community and the public.
Scholars across disciplines are increasingly treating “Black Europe” as a pertinent object of study. Yet much disagreement remains on what “Black Europe” is. Does Black Europe describe a place, an identity, an aspiration, or something else? Scholars oscillate between terms such as “Afropean,” “African-European,” and “Black European.” Moreover, the institutionalization of Black European studies remains a work in progress, and views vary on whether Black European studies is an academic field, a subsection of Black Studies or African Diaspora Studies, or a reference point for a set of inquiries and practices that exceed the bounds of academic discipline. As a one-day conference, "Black Europe: A Field on the Move" encourages interdisciplinary conversation on these questions.
The conference will consist of four panel sessions and two keynote presentations. Full schedule available here.