LHC Related Events:
Spring 2012
February 2012
“Abandoned in the Heartland”
Jennifer F. Hamer, University of Kansas
February 13 , 2012 @ 11:30 am
Kansas Union, Alcove A (Free and Open to the Public)
March 2012
“Know Your Genes, Meet Your Ancestors, Reunite Your Roots!” Selling DNA ancestry testing and Root-Seekers’ engagement with African Diaspoic Biosocial Networks
Elonda Clay University of Kansas
March 12 , 2012 @ 11:30 am
Kansas Union, Alcove A (Free and Open to the Public)
Previous LHC Events:
December 2011
The Help: A Panel Discussion
December 4, 2011 @ 3:30 pm
Kansas Union, Malott Room (Free and Open to the Public)
November 2011
“Considering Afro-Mexicans in the African Diaspora”
Robert Schwaller, University of Kansas
November 14, 2011 @ 11:30 am
Kansas Union, Alcove A (Free and Open to the Public)
October 2011
“African American Literature: Dead or Alive”
Maryemma Graham, University of Kansas
October 3, 2011 @ 11:30 am
Kansas Union, Alcove A (Free and Open to the Public)
September 2011
“Speaking with a Fire-Tongue: The Soucouyant as a Vocal Subaltern”
Crystal Boson, University of Kansas
September 12, 2011 @ 11:30 am
Kansas Union, Alcove A (Free and Open to the Public)
April 2011
“Manning Marable: Remembering a Scholar and an Activist” Clarence Lang and Shawn Leigh Alexander, University of Kansas
April 11, 2011 @ 11:30 am
Kansas Union, Alcove A (Free and Open to the Public)
March 2011
“The Quest for Citizenship: African American and Native American Education in Kansas,” Kim Warren, University of Kansas
March 14, 2011 @ 11:30 am
Kansas Union, Alcove A (Free and Open to the Public)
February 2011
“Terror in Tennessee: The Lynching of Elbert Williams and the Pursuit of Economic Justice in Brownsville,” Zanice Bond de Perez, University of Kansas
February 14, 2011 @ 11:30 am
Kansas Union, Alcove A (Free and Open to the Public)
November 2010
November 3, 2010 @ 3:30 pm
Malott, Kansas Union, (Free and Open to the Public)
“Even Dead I Was A Threat To Them - The Assassination of Patrice Lumumba and the Fragmentation of the Black Freedom Struggle,” Elizabeth Brickson, University of Kansas
November 8, 2010 @ 11:30 am
Kansas Union, Alcove A (Free and Open to the Public)
October 2010
“Black Studies in the Fourth Decade: Triumphs and Challenges,” Ernest Allen, Jr., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
October 20, 2010 @ 3:30 pm
Pine, Kansas Union, (Free and Open to the Public)
“Making Short-Form Films/Video - The Battle for Hearts and Minds,” Madison D. Lacy, University of Kansas
October 27, 2010 @ 3:30 pm
Centennial, Kansas Union, (Free and Open to the Public)
“After Lunch Poems,” William J. Harris, University of Kansas
October 11, 2010 @ 11:30 am
Kansas Union, Alcove A (Free and Open to the Public)
September 2010
“boundlibertybelles”, DaMaris Hill, University of Kansas
September 13, 2010 @ 11:30 am
Kansas Union, Alcove A (Free and Open to the Public)
April 2010
“William Styron’s Nat Turner: Rhetoric, Confession, and the Question of Violence”, Dave Tell, University of Kansas
April 12, 2010 @ 11:30 am
Kansas Union, Alcove A (Free and Open to the Public)
March 2010
“Historian as Detective: Uncovering the Lynching of Fred Alexander”, Christopher Lovett, Emporia State University
March 8, 2010 @ 11:30 am
Kansas Union, Alcove A (Free and Open to the Public)
February 2010
“Representations of Black History as Tools of Liberation and Oppression,” Phia Salter, University of Kansas
February 8, 2010 @ 11:30 am
Kansas Union, Alcove A (Free and Open to the Public)
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)
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).
Events Outside the Center:
February 2012
Virginia Scharff
The Women Jefferson Loved
February 6, 2012 @ 7:30 pm
Lied Pavillion
Angela Davis
Feminism & Political Action
February 7, 2012 @ 5:00 pm
Budig 210
Shawn Leigh Alexander
“Young Africa” and the Struggle for Historical Memory
February 15, 2012 @ 4:00 pm
Jayhawk Rm, Kansas Union
Shawn Leigh Alexander
An Army of Lions (Discussion & Book Signing)
February 16, 2012 @ 3:00 pm
North Gallery, Spencer Research Library
Tammy Kernodle
On the Battlefield: Black Women Musicians and the ‘Voicing’ the Civil Rights Movement - LHVP Lecture
February 22, 2012 @ 3:30 pm
Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union
April 2012
Jamaica Kincaid
April 10 & 11, 2012
Hall Center for Humanities
Lawrence Jackson
The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics
April 23, 2012 @ 3:30 pm
Hall Center for Humanities
Lawrence Jackson
My Father’s Name: A Black Virginia Family After the Civil War
April 24, 2012 @ 3:30 pm
Hall Center for Humanities
Events Outside KU:
Our Nation’s Struggle for Freedom
August 1 - September 29, 2011
Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site, Topeka, KS
Association for the Study of African American Life and History
96 Annual Convention, Richmond, VA
October 5-9, 2011
