Center Related Events:
Fall 2009
November 2009
Alderson Auditorium - Kansas Union (Free and Open to the Public)
“Rights, Race, and Recognition,” Derrick Darby, University of Kansas
November 9, 2009 @ 11:30 am
Kansas Union, Alcove A (Free and Open to the Public)
Previous LHC Events:
October 2009
“Remembering Dr. John Hope Franklin, Ronald Takaki, and Kenneth Stampp,” David Katzman and other faculty members of the University of Kansas
October 12, 2009 @ 11:30 am
Kansas Union, Alcove A (Free and Open to the Public)
September 2009
“Forging an American Pluralism: The Mexican Revolution and American Civil RIghts,” Ruben Flores, University of Kansas
September 14, 2009 @ 11:30 am
Kansas Union, Alcove E (Free and Open to the Public)
April 2009
“The Replication of Victorian Racial Ideology in Harry Potter,”
Giselle L. Anatol, University of Kansas
April 13, 2009 @ 11:30 am
Kansas Union, Alcove D (Free and Open to the Public)
March 2009
“A ‘Bad Nationalist’ in the International Zone: Claude McKay in Tangier,” Gary Holcomb, Emporia State University
March 9, 2009 @ 11:30 am
Kansas Union, Alcove D (Free and Open to the Public)
February 2009
FIGHT FOR FREEDOM: A Century of the NAACP and the Struggle for Racial Equality
Featured Speakers:
Carol Anderson, Emory University
John H. Bracey, Jr., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Christopher De Santis, Illinois State University
Gretchen Cassel Eick, Friends University
Patricia Sullivan, University of South Carolina
February 13 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Kansas Union, Alderson Auditorium
Fees & Registration - $30 (includes lunch)
KU Students complimentary, registration required.
To register online or for more information, visit
"'Rowing Not Drifting' The Women of the Kansas Association of Colored Women, 1900-30" Doretha Williams, University of Kansas
February 9, 2009 @ 11:30 am
Kansas Union, Alcove J (Free and Open to the Public)
December 2008
“After Winter: The Regeneration of Sterling Brown’s Art and Life,” John Edgar Tidwell, University of Kansas
December 8, 2008 @ 11:30 am
Kansas Union, Alcove J (Free and Open to the Public)
November 2008
“Come to Africa and it is here!” African Americans and Africa Seminar Series (co-sponsored with KASC)
“By the Coast of Elmina: Africans & African Americans and the Problem of Slavery,” Randal M. Jelks, University of Kansas
November 20th, 2008 @ 3:30 pm
International Room, Kansas Union, (Free and Open to the Public)
“In Our Own Words and Photographs: Documenting the African American experience in the Kansas Region,” Deborah Dandridge, University of Kansas
November 10, 2008 @ 11:30 am
Kansas Union, Alcove J (Free and Open to the Public)
“Come to Africa and it is here!” African Americans and Africa Seminar Series (co-sponsored with KASC)
“From the Door of No Return to the Door of Return: Legacies of Slavery in West Africa,” Kim Warren and Elizabeth MacGonagle, University of Kansas
November 6, 2008 @ 3:30 pm
International Room, Kansas Union, (Free and Open to the Public)
October 2008
“Come to Africa and it is here!” African Americans and Africa Seminar Series (co-sponsored with KASC)
"The Deeper Meaning of Common Sense: Collective Violence and White Agrarian Elites in the American South and South Africa, 1900-1927," John Higginson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
October 30, 2008 @ 3:30 pm
English Room, Kansas Union, (Free and Open to the Public)
“Come to Africa and it is here!” African Americans and Africa Seminar Series (co-sponsored with KASC)
An “Army of Christ:” T. McCants Stewart and his quest to create a “Negro Nationality,” Shawn Leigh Alexander, University of Kansas
October 9, 2008 @ 3:30 pm
International Room, Kansas Union, (Free and Open to the Public)
Jesse B. Semple Brownbag Series -- Special Panel
Barack Obama’s Candidacy: America, Race and the Historical Moment
Panelists: Dorthy Pennington (AAAS & Communications)
Jonathan Earle (History and the Dole Institute)
Donald Haider-Markel (Political Science)
David Jones, Jr. (KU Student & KS Democratic Party)
October 13, 2008 @ 11:30 am
Kansas Union, Woodruff Auditorium (Free and Open to the Public)
“Come to Africa and it is here!” African Americans and Africa Seminar Series (co-sponsored with KASC)
"Race, Politics and History: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Encyclopedia Africana Project," James T. Campbell, Edgar E. Robinson Professor of American History, Stanford University
October 23, 2008 @ 3:30 pm
International Room, Kansas Union, (Free and Open to the Public)
September 2008
“Circus, Shriners, and Fairs, Oh My: An Alternative History of Black Islam and American Orientalism,” Jacob Dorman, University of Kansas
September 8 @ 11:30 am
Kansas Union, Alcove J (Free and Open to the Public)
April 2008
Marwa Africana Lecture Series
“Black Athena and the Reaction To It,” Cornell University Professor Martin Bernal. April 14, 2008 @ 7pm
Woodroff Auditorium - Kansas Union (Free and Open to the Public)
“A Slave No More: Two Recently Discovered Narratives and the Story of Emancipation,” Yale University Professor David W. Blight. April 24, 2008 @ 7:30pm
Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics. (Free and Open to the Public)
“The past has been a mint
Of blood and sorrow.
That must not be
True of tomorrow.”
-- Langston Hughes, (“History,” 1934).
