Beyoncé Makes History: Black Radical Tradition History, Culture, Theory & Politics through Music, Spring 2025
Hosted by: Daphne Brooks, Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, Music, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
This course centered the 2010s and 2020s’ sonic and visual repertoires of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter as the portal through which to rigorously examine key interdisciplinary works of Black radical tradition intellectual thought and grassroots activist politics and practice across the centuries. Its aim was two-fold: to both explore and analyze the dense, robust, and virtuosic aesthetics as well as the socio-historical and political dimensions of Beyoncé’s pathbreaking, mid-career body of work and to, likewise, use her distinct repertoire as a way into examining major lines of inquiry in Black Studies critical thought. In short, this was a class that traced the relationship between Beyoncé’s artistic genius and Black intellectual practice.
Black Existentialism, Spring 2024
Hosted by: Shane Vogel, Chair of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, Professor of English and African American Studies
March 28, 2024
"Locating Black Women's Friendship in the Archive: Life Writing, Cultural Criticism, and Performance Studies"
Dr. Soyica Diggs Colbert, Georgetown University
Decolonizing Europe, Spring 2023
Hosted by: Professor Fatima El-Tayeb, Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration
March 8, 2023
"German Coloniality and Anti-Racism Paradigms in a New Europe"
Dr. Anna-Esther Younes, scholar of race critical theories, using psychoanalytic approaches and post-colonial theory
March 29, 2023
"White Enclosures: Racial Capitalism and Coloniality along the Balkan Route"
Dr. Piro Rexhepi, studies decoloniality, sexuality and Islam
April 6, 2023
"France and Whiteness: breaking with the collaboration of race"
Dr. Houria Bouteldja, studies decolonial feminism, racism, autonomy and political alliances
April 12, 2023
"Radicially Inclusive Archives – Intersectional Black European Studies Today"
Intersectional Black European Studies Project
April 19, 2023
"Colonially Bound | Immateriality Free: On the Expanded Distance Between Object and Image"
Dr. Eunsong Kim, centers critiques of colonialisms and racial capitalism and draws from critical digital studies, translation studies, critical theory and critical race & ethnic studies, Northeastern University
April 26, 2023
"Imagining Europe through racial ‘b/orders’ and struggles over migration"
Dr. Maurice Stierl, Professor of Intercultural Studies, Osnabrück University
October 3, 2019
Virtual Violence: Trauma & Memory in Gina Kim’s “Dongducheun/Bloodless”
Grace Kungwon Hong, Professor of Gender Studies and Asian American Studies, UCLA
October 10, 2019
Savage States: Settler Governance in an Age of Sorrow
Audra Simpson, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University
October 31, 2019
Operationalizing Racial Capitalism: Administrative Power and Ordinary Violence
Jodi Melamed, Associate Professor of English, Marquette University
November 14, 2019
A New Jim Code? Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life
Ruha Benjamin, Associate Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University
November 21, 2019
Inefficient Feeling: Care as Revolutionary Praxis at the End of Society
Kalindi Vora, Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, UC Davis
