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Mary Poole and Meitamei Olol Dapash on Decolonizing Maasai History: A Path to Indigenous African Futures
Dr. Mary Poole is a historian of U.S. and African history, with an emphasis on histories of social movements, racial capitalism, colonialism, feminist and other critic...
Wendell H. Marsh on Textual Life: Islam, Africa, and the Fate of the Humanities
Dr. Wendell Marsh is an Associate Professor of African Literature and Philosophy at Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique in Morocco. His work bridges Global Black Stud...
José Miguel Palacios on Transnational Cinema Solidarity: Chilean Exile Film and Video after 1973
Dr.José Miguel Palacios is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinematic Arts at California State University Long Beach. His work explores the relations betwee...
Caroline Fowler on Slavery and the Invention of Dutch Art
Dr.Caroline Fowler is Starr Director of the Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute. In this conversation, we discuss her most recent book, Slavery an...
Anna LaQuawn Hinton on Refusing to be Made Whole: Disability in Black Women's Writing
Dr. Anna LaQuawn Hinton is an Assistant professor of Disability Studies and Black Literature & Culture in the English Department at the University of North Texas. Dr. ...
Tavia Nyong'o on Black Apocalypse: Afrofuturism at the End of the World
A 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, Tavia Nyong’o is the William Lampson Professor of American Studies at Yale University, with award-winning books including The Amalgamation Wa...
Danielle Roper on Hemispheric Blackface: Impersonation and Nationalist Fictions in the Americas
This is Fatima Seck and today’s discussion is with Dr. Danielle Roper, an assistant professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University ...
Amber Jamilla Musser on Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined
This discussion is with Amber Jamilla Musser, a professor of English and Africana studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. She writes and researches at the intersections o...
Philip Janzen on An Unformed Map: Geographies of Belonging between Africa and the Caribbean
This discussion is with Philip Janzen, an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Florida. He studies the cultural and intellectual histo...
Doyle D. Calhoun on The Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire
This episode includes discussions of suicide within the historical contexts of slavery, colonization, and empire. Please listen with care and be mindful of your well-b...
Therí Alyce Pickens on What Had Happened Was
This discussion is with Dr. Therí A. Pickens received her undergraduate degree in Comparative Literature from Princeton University (P’05) and her PhD in Comparative Li...
Jessie Cox on Sounds of Black Switzerland: Blackness, Music, and Unthought Voices
This discussion is with Dr. Jessie Cox, an Assistant Professor of Music at Harvard University. Active as a composer, drummer, and scholar, his work thematizes question...
Devin Bryson and Molly Krueger Enz on Projections of Dakar: (Re)Imagining Urban Senegal through Cinema
This discussion is with Dr. Devin Bryson and Dr. Molly Enz. Dr. Bryson is a professor of French and Francophone studies and Gender and Women's studies in the global s...
Jody Benjamin on The Texture of Change: Dress, Self-Fashioning, and History in Western Africa, 1700-1850
This discussion is with Dr. Jody Benjamin, a social and cultural historian of western Africa with expertise in the period between 1650 and 1850. He received his PhD in...
Sandhya Shukla on Cross-Cultural Harlem: Reimagining Race and Place
This discussion is with Dr. Sandhya Shukla is associate professor of English and American Studies at the University of Virginia,where she is also an affiliate faculty ...
Laura Helton on Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History
This discussion is with Dr. Laura Helton, a historian who writes about collections and how they shape our world. She is an Associate Professor of English and History a...
Mary Hicks on Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of Atlantic Slavery, 1721-1835
This is John Drabinski and you’re listening to Conversations in Atlantic Theory, a podcast dedicated to books and ideas generated from and about the Atlantic world. In...
Souleymane Bachir Diagne on Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition
This is Fatima Seck and you’re listening to Conversations in Atlantic Theory, a podcast dedicated to books and ideas generated from and about the Atlantic world. In co...
Benjamin Barson on Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons
This is John Drabinski and you’re listening to Conversations in Atlantic Theory, a podcast dedicated to books and ideas generated from and about the Atlantic world. In...
Bryan Sinche on Published by the Author: Self-Publication in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature
This discussion is with Dr. Bryan Sinche, a Professor and Chair of English at the University of Hartford. He has written more than twenty essays and reviews which appe...