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 23 , 2025 - Re-Thinking Identity, Community and Epistolary Forms in 18th-century England
Dr. Nicole Aljoe (Tufts Univeristy) "will explore the myriad ways in which letters by Black Britons not only contribute to complicating assumptions about identities, place and communities of Black people in 18th-century England, but also reveals a more expansive understanding of the discursive investments and formal diversity of Early Black print cultures"
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).
April 14-17, 2025- Fourth session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent
The fourth session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent will be held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, United States, from 14 to 17 April 2025, with the theme: Africa and people of African descent: United for reparatory justice in the age of Artificial Intelligence.
April 11-12, 2025- CAUSE 30th Anniversary Conference
Happy Anniversary to the Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy!
February 14, 2025 - The Revue des Colonies: Diasporic Networks and the Struggle for Abolition
CBESA Postdoctoral scholar, Jessica Balguy, presented a paper at this colloqium highlighting the first French periodical directed by people of color.
December 6-7, 2024 - Palabre/s en mode marron
Artist Bintou Dembélé presents Palabre/s en mode marron, a gathering of artists, academics, activists, and more with connections to Paris and the French West Indies.
November 25, 2024 - Decolonial Sweden Available for Pre-order!
Decolonial Sweden exposes the social and political relevance of European colonialism to Sweden and its place in the world. It is a book that points to why and how Sweden is to be included in global decolonial struggles.
November 11-17, 2024 - Festa Literaria das Periferias (FLUP 2024)
CBESA co-curated the 2024 edition of the Festival, which saw over 14,000 attendees.
October 3-5, 2024 - Global Black French Studies Across Time and Space
Dr. Niang will be the keynote speaker for the conference "Global Black French Studies across Time and Space: The Formation and Future of the Field," held at Boston College. The conference aims to explore the formation, growth, and challenges of Black French Studies across geographies, focusing on how this field has been understood, practiced, and resisted beyond the U.S., particularly in France, where universalism contrasts with the lived experiences of race and blackness.
September 19-20, 2024 - Technologies of Silence
Director Niang visited and participated in the Technologies of Silence conference presented by the Sound Justice Lab at the University of Virginia.
Learn more https://soundjusticelab.org/tos
April 10, 2024 - Towards a UN Global Black Studies Network
CBESA is part of a group that is looking to establish a UN Global Black Studies Network to promote research, teaching, learning and proliferation of knowledge and knowledge-based narratives on people of African descent across the world. The project would be a collaboration between UNESCO (with UNESCO Chairs on Black Studies), OHCHR and universities across the world.
March 11, 2024 - Dr. Jessica Balguy named a 2024 Woman in Science by the Collège des Sociétés Savantes Académiques de France
In a series of portraits highlighting remarkable women in the sciences, the Collège des Sociétés Savantes Académiques de France recognized CBESA postdoctoral fellow Dr. Jessica Balguy as a outstanding academic in the field.
🎤 Mame-Fatou Niang, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Carnegie Mellon University
🎤 SM Rodriguez, Assistant Professor, Department of Gender Studies at LSE
🪑 Joanna Lewis, Director, Centre for Women Peace and Security, LSE
📅 30 Oct 2023, Monday
🕠 6.30pm to 8.00pm BST
📍 Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, LSE
"Black France on Film", 12 July 2023
A conversation at Columbia in Paris with Dr. Maboula Soumahoro,
France's New Standing in Francophone Africa,
Africultures Conversation Series, November 2023
Invited symposium: “Designing Accurate Health Disadvantage Indices”
World Health Organisation, Geneva. 13-14 Dec 2023.
on 13-14 December, CBESA's Mame-Fatou Niang was part of an international group of experts meeting at the Fondation Brocher in Geneva to evaluate disadvantage indices, with particular focus on their potential to capture the impacts of structural racism and discrimination. Building on work done throughout fall23 with Carnegie Mellon University's students, Dr. Niang presented on the difficulty /urgent need to build such indices for vulnerable groups in France.
University of Edinburgh, The Centre of African Studies RACE.ED, 11 Oct 2023.