Center for African Studies Events

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Happy Birthday, Breonna Taylor: Calendrical Return and Digital Ritual in the Mediated Afterlife

12:00 pm 01:30 pm

Conference Room 1201 W. Nevada St., Urbana, IL
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 25, 2026

‘A Dilapidated House is Better than a Bush’: Enclosures and the Ambivalence of Security on Africa’s Gold Coast

12:00 pm 01:30 pm

Conference Room 1201 W. Nevada St., Urbana, IL
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Advancing Health Equity and Reproductive Justice through Qualitative Research and Evaluation

12:00 pm 01:30 pm

Conference Room 1201 W. Nevada St., Urbana, IL
- Seminar/Symposium
The Southern African Transnational Film Project

12:00 pm 01:00pm

Room 306 Coble Hall
- Lecture

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Ericka Huggins, the Black Panther Party, and Carceral Survival: A Conversation on Writing Biography

12:00 pm 01:30 pm

Conference Room 1201 W. Nevada St., Urbana, IL
- Seminar/Symposium
"Riches" - in honor of Women's History Month

12:00 pm 01:00pm

Room 306 Coble Hall
- Lecture

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Decolonizing African Collections Through Open Access

12:00 pm 01:30pm

Room 306 Coble Hall
- Lecture
Remembering the Black World: African-Descended Rural Communities in Atlantic Canada

12:00 pm 01:30 pm

Room 210 – Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana, IL
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Human and Nonhuman Actors at the Ocean Frontier: Fishmeal Production and the Unmaking of The Gambia

12:00 pm 01:00pm

Room 306 Coble Hall
- Lecture

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Freedom on the Horizon: Transmarine Marronage in the Lesser Antilles, 1824–1848

12:00 pm 01:30 pm

Conference Room 1201 W. Nevada St., Urbana, IL
- Seminar/Symposium
Genetic Genealogy Inference among Kassena Ghanaians and Their Diaspora Multiple Generations after Mass Transatlantic Human Trafficking from Africa

12:00 pm 01:00pm

Room 108 Coble Hall
- Lecture

Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Chronicles of Two West African Kingdoms: The Tārīkh Ibn Al-Mukhtār of The Songhay Empire and The Tārīkh al-Fattāsh of the Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi

12:00 pm 01:00pm

108 Coble Hall
- Lecture