Black Studies

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Program for Global Health and Medicine, in collaboration with the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, the Jan Knippers Black Fund, and Middlebury College Departments and Programs of Anthropology, Global Health, Black Studies, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, and the Center for the Critical Study of Race and Ethnicity warmly invite you to a public lecture by Professor Kamari Maxine Clarke.

This two-part event includes a reproductive justice exhibit featuring art that focuses on crisis pregnancy centers, as well as a talk about art as a vehicle for social justice by Dr. Virginia Thomas.

Exhibit Opening
12:30-1:30 pm, Tuesday, Sept. 27
Axinn Winter Garden & Axinn Center, Room 229
Exhibit features art by Middlebury’s Public Feminism Fellows: Kamari Williams, Isabel Perez, Alexis Welch, Elissa Asch, Luci Bryson, Emily Ribeiro, and Meg Farley.

Kofi Bazzell-Smith is an artist, a graduate student at the University of Illinois, and a professional boxer. Pursuing his Master of Fine Arts in New Media, Kofi is currently a Mellon Foundation Interseminars Initiative Fellow with the Humanities Research Institution.

This day-long exhibit, with lunch presentation including food and beverages, will showcase some of the work done by Black Studies students at Middlebury.

This day-long exhibit, with lunch presentation including food and beverages, will showcase some of the work done by Black Studies students at Middlebury.

Departments of Sociology; Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies; Independent Scholar; and Black Studies joint reception for graduating seniors and their guests in Axinn Center Winter Garden.

 

As part of a new series of Black Studies teach-ins on current events, Kimberly St. Julian Varnon, an expert on Ukrainian history and Black Diasporas in Eastern Europe, will offer vital insights into the war, its impact on Black Ukrainians and Black residents of Ukraine, and the broader historical context of Russian imperialism. Kimberly St. Julian Varnon is a Penn Presidential PhD fellow in History at the University of Pennsylvania.

Come learn about the Black Studies Program, courses, and major/minor over lunch with Black Studies faculty!

Photographers Jon Henry and Mikael Owunna discuss their artistic responses to police murder of Black men. Andrew Plumley ’11 (Senior Director, Equity & Culture, American Alliance of Museums) moderates this online conversation, which will include audience Q&A. Free.

Advance registration required. Learn more and register: https://bit.ly/OwunnaHenry.