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News

June 30 - July 2, 2025 - The 66th Annual Society for French Studies Conference

The Society for French Studies will be holding their annual conference at the University of Bristol (England) this summer. CBESA's director, Dr. Mame-Fatou Niang, will present a keynote lecture.

June 19 - 20, 2025 - Anna Julia Cooper: A Black Feminist at the Sorbonne Conference

The Sorbonne will be hosting a conference to pay tribute to the centennial year of African American scholar Anna Julia Cooper completing her doctorate at the University.

May 21-23, 2025 - Black France Noire Inaugural Symposium

CBESA is one of the Centers behind the BLACK | FRANCE | NOIRE project, an initiative looking at "Black” French Studies as a capacious field that merits exploration along multiple lines of inquiry.

April 15 , 2025- Launch of Global Network for the Study of Africans and People of African Descent (G-SAP)

This side-event on April 15th at the UN Headquarters in NYC will officially launch the Global Network for the Study of Africans and People of African Descent (G-SAP).