Hutchins Center for African & African American Studies

Megan Michel (Harvard University), Breakthrough: Ancient DNA Illuminates Malaria's Impact across Human History. Response by Dyann F. Wirth (Harvard School of Public Health), with comments by Kyle Harper (University of Oklahoma), Edward T. Ryan (Harvard...

Black and White Thinking: author Cord Whitaker discusses his new book Black Metaphors: How Modern Racism Emerged from Medieval Race-Thinking (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019) with Henry Louis Gates Jr. , Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and...

The 2019 Huggins lectures will be delivered by Christopher Ehret (University of California Los Angeles). All lectures will take place at 4:00 pm. Tuesday, 5 November: African Historical Firsts (Center for African Studies, 1280 Massachusetts Avenue, 3rd...

Michael Gomez (New York University), Hidden in Plain Sight: Gender and Power and Privilege in Imperial Space. This is the final part of West Africa in the Age of Ascent, the 2018 Hutchins Center Du Bois Lecture.

Michael Gomez (New York University), Slavery and Unfreedom: Peripatetic Mutability in West Africa and the Americas. This is the second part of West Africa in the Age of Ascent, the 2018 Hutchins Center Du Bois Lecture.

Michael Gomez (New York University), Ahead of His Time: Mansa Mūsā and the Poli-Poetics of Dynastic Memory. This is the first part of West Africa in the Age of Ascent, the 2018 Hutchins Center Du Bois Lecture.

Samantha Kelly (Rutgers University), Connected Histories: Ethiopia and the Global Middle Ages. This event is part of the 2018-2019 lecture series "Africa in the Medieval World", co-sponsored by the Hutchins Center for African & African American Studies...

Stephanie Wynne-Jones (University of York), Objects and Encounters on the Medieval East African Coast. This event is part of the 2018-2019 lecture series "Africa in the Medieval World", co-sponsored by the Hutchins Center for African & African American...

Sam Nixon (British Museum), The Gold Route to Timbuktu: Tracing Medieval Camel Caravan Networks from Morocco to Mali. This event is part of the 2018-2019 lecture series "Africa in the Medieval World", co-sponsored by the Hutchins Center for African &...

Daphne Gallagher (University of Oregon), Reflecting on Medieval West Africa: Archaeological Perspectives from Burkina Faso, Mali, and Senegal. This event is part of the 2018-2019 lecture series "Africa in the Medieval World", co-sponsored by the Hutchins...