Each year, the ALST program invites nationally recognized thinkers, activists, and writers to speak on issues of race, oppression, and resistance.
We ask students to attend and challenge them to critically analyze what they hear in relation to what they learn in the classroom.
Previous Speakers
Speaker: Julian Boal
Title: On Old Forms in New Times: Theatre of the Oppressed in the XXI Century
Speaker: Dr. Derron Wallace
Title: Anti-Racism and the Persistence of the Color Line: Examining Race, Culture, and the Urgency of Racial Justice
Speaker: Oy癡r籀nk廕嘐 Oyw羅m穩
Title: W.E.B. Dubois, Sociology and Race: An African Decolonial
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Speaker: Professor Terry-Ann Jones
Title: "Migration and Racial Discrimination Across Cultural and Geographic Contexts"
Speaker: Professor Tianna Paschel
Title: "Anti-Black Racism and Resistance in Latin America"
Speaker: Professor Marcyliena Morgan
Title: 'But We Do Language:' How Hiphop Measures our Lives"
Speaker:
Title: Ordeal and Opportunity: Ending the First World War in Africa, 1914-1925
Speaker: Professor Dianne Stewart
Title: The Nationality There is Methodist: The Black Church in America and Other Africana Religious Structures of Nation-building
Speaker: Professor Ada Ferrer
Title: Apontes Vision: Toward Hemispheric Histories of Black Anti-Slavery
Speaker: Professor Lawrence Hill
Title: The Book of Negroes: Fiction and the American Revolution
Speaker: Professor Robert Trent Vinson
Title: Which Walk to Freedom? W.E.B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, and the Promise and Peril of Pan-Africanism in Twentieth-Century South Africa