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AAAS Professor Jacob Olupona to Deliver Keynote Address

May 19, 2022

On Saturday, May 21, 2022, from 9:00-10:30am, AAAS Professor Jacob Olupona will give the keynote lecture titled "Imagined Religious Elite, Wealth, and Society in Africa" at the International Conference... Read more about AAAS Professor Jacob Olupona to Deliver Keynote Address

AAAS Professor Vijay Iyer Featured in New Documentary

May 18, 2022

On Wednesday, May 18, 2022, the official trailer for the documentary Mixtape Trilogy: Stories of the Power of Music was released. The film, selected to close the Richmond International... Read more about AAAS Professor Vijay Iyer Featured in New Documentary

AAAS Professor Evelynn Hammonds Named Visiting Professor at Spelman

May 16, 2022

On Monday, May 16, 2022, Spelman College President Mary Schmidt Campbell announced that AAAS Professor Evelynn Hammonds has been appointed the inaugural Audre Lorde Visiting Professor of Queer Studies, the... Read more about AAAS Professor Evelynn Hammonds Named Visiting Professor at Spelman

AAAS Concentrator Sydney Lewis Wins Hoopes Prize

May 12, 2022

On Monday, May 9, 2022, The Harvard Crimson published an article announcing the winners of the 2022 Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize which recognizes outstanding scholarly work on an academic project. Among... Read more about AAAS Concentrator Sydney Lewis Wins Hoopes Prize

AAAS Affiliate Professor Ellis Monk Partners with Google

May 11, 2022

On Wednesday, May 11, 2022, Google reported that over the next few months they'll be incorporating a new skin tone scale designed to be more inclusive of the spectrum of skin tones... Read more about AAAS Affiliate Professor Ellis Monk Partners with Google

AAAS Professor Shelemay Presents Ethiopian Musician Storymap

May 5, 2022

On Thursday, May 5, 2022, the Weatherhead Center's Epicenter Blog added a new post titled "Musical Sentinels of the Ethiopian American Diaspora" by AAAS Professor Kay Kaufman Shelemay regarding... Read more about AAAS Professor Shelemay Presents Ethiopian Musician Storymap

AAAS Professor Sarah Lewis Panelist on Civil War History Roundtable

May 5, 2022

On Friday, May 13, 2022, from 4:00-5:30, AAAS Professor Sarah Lewis will be a panelist on a Civil War History Journal Roundtable: Deborah Willis’ The Black Civil War Soldier: A visual History of Conflict and Citizenship.... Read more about AAAS Professor Sarah Lewis Panelist on Civil War History Roundtable

AAAS Professor Smith Featured at Black Arts Collective Event

May 3, 2022

On Tuesday, May 3, 2022, The Harvard Crimson published an article titled "‘Allowing Blackness to Thrive’: Black Arts Collective Holds Inaugural Mixer Featuring Tracy K. Smith ’94," reporting on the inaugural... Read more about AAAS Professor Smith Featured at Black Arts Collective Event

AAAS Professor David Williams Awarded William B. Graham Prize

May 2, 2022

On Tuesday, May 2, 2022, the Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA) and the Baxter International Foundation announced that the recipient of the 2022 William B. Graham Prize... Read more about AAAS Professor David Williams Awarded William B. Graham Prize

AAAS Professor John Mugane Receives Dean’s Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship

May 2, 2022

On Monday, May 2, 2022, AAAS Professor John Mugane was informed that his project “THIOMI_LughaNLP_Africa: An Language, Culture and Technology Initiative,” will receive funding in the amount of... Read more about AAAS Professor John Mugane Receives Dean’s Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship

AAAS commemorated its 50th Anniversary with a 2-day symposium on February 28-29, 2020.

For more infor visit the AAAS50th web page to see photos and videos from the event.

Link to the AAAS 50th Page

Upcoming Events

2022 May 21

Conference: "Power, Wealth and the Emergent Religious Elite in Contemporary Africa"

9:00am to 5:00pm

Location:

Virtual

AAAS Professor Jacob Olupona will give the keynote lecture titled "Imagined Religious Elite, Wealth, and Society in Africa" at the International Conference "Power, Wealth and the Emergent Religious Elite in Contemporary Africa." on Saturday, May 21, 2022, from 9:00-10:30am, The one-day conference sponsored by the... Read more about Conference: "Power, Wealth and the Emergent Religious Elite in Contemporary Africa"

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