African/African American Studies

The African Diaspora Conversation Series is a lunch hour lecture series hosted by the African and African American Studies program in Area Studies. The goal is to create an engaging forum for faculty members, as well as students. All faculty members at GVSU will get a chance to showcase their scholarship in so far as it is connected to the African Diaspora. In such a forum, students will have an opportunity to join in scholarly discussions, too. They will have an opportunity to see and engage in aspects of academia in which their professors participate outside of the classroom.
The theme for our conversations for Fall and Winter 2011/12 is "Migrations,” a fitting place to begin when doing scholarship on the African diaspora, a broad and rich area of study. We already have speakers from GVSU's History, Philosophy, and Area Studies Departments. See below for upcoming speakers, lecture titles, locations, and dates.

