Upcoming Events
Apr 24-26 - CBESA Official Launch
We are launching!!
Come with us to celebrate the Arts, Humanities and Global Black Studies with scholars, artists, legislators and curators from Cabo Verde, France, Portugal, Brazil, Belgium, the United States, Senegal, Mali, Martinique and the Netherlands.
Apr 24-26, Posner Grand Room, 3rd Floor Posner Hall, Carnegie Mellon University
April 24, 2024 - Black Studies x French Studies, Columbia in Paris
Join us on April 24 for a joint event Yale University x CBESA Carnegie Mellon University x Columbia University x Northeastern University: How might we consider Black Studies as a central undercurrent in hexagonal France and not as a mere imposition from the Anglo-American world?
This Conversation Series reestablishes Négritude as a 1930s movement among students in the Quartier Latin who inherited the intellectual fury of the previous decade. Négritude offers the necessary anchorage to discuss Black Studies at the intersection of French Studies, in other words, the long history of Black Studies within a Francophone European context, despite the absence of formal research centers and academic departments.
This historic intervention thus predates the groundswell of student protests in the 1960s that resulted in the gradual institutionalization of Black Studies in the North Atlantic, notably in the United States but also in the United Kingdom, and Canada, which have greatly shaped scholarship on the history of the European empire, slavery studies, feminism, literature, performance, and art.
Round Table 1 (17h-18h30)
Black Aesthetic Praxes "Beyond Beauty"
18h30 - 19h15
Reception + Intermission
Table ronde 2 (19h30-21h)
Parole à la Négritude de l'époque coloniale et post-coloniale
Apr 24 - Dr. Noémie Ndiaye Keynote
We are launching!!
Come with us to celebrate the Arts, Humanities and Global Black Studies with scholars, artists, legislators and curators from Cabo Verde, France, Portugal, Brazil, Belgium, the United States, Senegal, Mali, Martinique and the Netherlands.
Apr 24-26, Posner Grand Room, 3rd Floor Posner Hall, Carnegie Mellon University
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.
On Wednesday 10 April 2024, we are organizing an online event with Black Studies representatives across the world to generate recommendations ahead of the 3rd session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent (Apr 16-19 2024, UN Headquarters, Geneva).
Title of the side event: Towards a UN Global Black Studies Network
Date, time and time zone of side event: Wednesday 10 April at 10 am ET/ 4pm CET
Sponsoring organization(s) or entity/ies:
- UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent
- Center for Black European Studies and the Atlanticat Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
Language(s): English
Description of the side event: The event will feature key Black Studies representatives from across the world as well as representatives of the OHCHR, UNESCO and the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, with the goal of setting an active agenda of propositions towards the establishment of a UNESCO and OHCHR UN Global Black Studies Network—to encourage the study on, teaching, learning and proliferation of knowledge on people of African descent across the world.
Location of the side event (or website for registration, for events held online): Online and by invitation
Name and email address of the lead organizer: For more information, please contact Professor Mame-Fatou Niang: mniang@andrew.cmu.edu
DECEMBER 2024 : Join us in Melbourne for ASFS' Annual Conference
Our director Dr. Niang will keynote the AustralianSocietyforFrenchStudies 2024 conference with Dr. Gemma King and Dr. Maeve McCusker on the theme of Global French Studies: Transnational, Transcultural, and Transdisciplinary Perspectives.
Dr. Niang will also participate in a roundtable with Professor Charles Forsdick on "Future Directions in French Studies: Global Perspectives"
Please send your proposal of 250 words and a short bio (100 words) to ASFS-Conference-2024@unimelb.edu.au. The deadline for abstracts is Monday 17 June 2024.
🎤 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.