Happy 2010.

I’m never sorry to see any year filed away in the history books, least of all this one. What promised to be a good year of change ended up being a year of loss and sadness. You never can predict what life will hand you, but I learned once again, and hopefully for the last [...]

African Women Public Service Fellowship

Wagner announces a call for applications for the African Women Public Service Fellowship, a fellowship program made possible by a donation from the Oprah Winfrey Foundation, which expands the opportunity for African women to prepare for public service in their home countries. As fellows at NYU Wagner, African women study in one of two graduate [...]

Black Metropolis Research Consortium Fellowships

Black Metropolis Research Consortium Announces Two Fellowship Programs in African American Studies
Deadline: January 11, 2010
Black Metropolis Research Consortium Announces Two Fellowship Programs in African American Studies
The Black Metropolis Research Consortium is an unincorporated Chicago-based association of libraries, universities, and other archival institutions. Its mission is to make broadly accessible its members’ holdings of materials that [...]

IDSVA Symposium: Art, Ethnicity, and Globalization & Print Edition

IDSVA ANNOUNCES SECOND ANNUAL HARLEM SYMPOSIUM:
ART, ETHNICITY, and GLOBALIZATION

Gathering of Internationally Renowned Artists and Scholars
The INSTITUTE FOR DOCTORAL STUDIES IN THE VISUAL ARTS announces its Second Annual Harlem Symposium. Art, Ethnicity, and Globalization will be held January 7-8 at the Harlem Studio Museum, 144 West 125 Street, Harlem and at other locations.
The [...]

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR BLACK CAMERA JOURNAL

A SPECIAL ISSUE on “SEXUALITY AND EROTICISM IN BLACK FILM, CINEMA AND VIDEO (Deadline: 4/5/10)
Black Camera invites submissions for a special issue on “Sexuality and Eroticism in Black Film, Cinema, and Video” to be published in Fall 2011.
Black Camera is peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study and documentation of the black cinematic experience and is [...]