Africana Studies Program Events
Upcoming Events
Past Events
A Conversation about Black Cuisine
With Adrian Miller, Kenyatta Ashford, and Nicole Brown
Thursday, March 31, 2022
5:30 pm
University Center Chattanooga Room C (updated location)
Take Five Book Club 2022 on the Harlem Renaissance
Africana Studies Meet & Greet
11/16 + 11/17
Contra Nationis Natum: When Black Writers Embrace the Classical Past
Featuring
Dr. Jackie Murray, University of Kentucky
5:30 PM, Wednesday, November 10, 2021
Raccoon Mountain Room, UTC University Center
“As Is” America: Subcontracting Freedom
From Slave Cabin to Monument to the Slave Past
Wednesday, April 14 @ 3:30pm EST
Dr. Renée Ater, Provost Visiting Professor, Africana Studies, Brown University
Afro-Diasporic Kinships: Audre Lorde and Black German Women
Dr. Tiffany Florvil, Associate Professor of History, University of Mexico
Monday, April 5, 2021, 7:30 PM EST
The Future of Confederate Monuments
March 29th from 6-7pm, Zoom
With Virginia Tech professor and artist Meredith Drum
UTC/RISE Community Speaker Series
Feb. 23, Mar. 16, Apr. 13
Join RISE Chattanooga and the UTC Department of History on Zoom as we connect communities for a series of talks on “The Struggle for Racial Justice and Equity.”
These conversations will bring theory to life as students engage local leaders on their struggles and victories.
Watch the video of the first event here
Watch the video of the second event here
Watch the video of the third event here
Building a Movement: Black Women Organizing in the (Global) South
Dr. Keisha Blain, Associate Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh
Monday, March 15, 2021, 4:00 PM EST
UTC Art Virtual Speaker Series
Dr. Lyneise Williams
Wednesday, Feb. 24 @ 3:30-4:40pm
“Slimming Down Soul Food: A Study of African American Cookbooks”
Dr. Mark Johnson, UTC Department of History and Africana Studies
Monday, February 8, 12:00, Zoom
BLM and Protest Movements: A Panel Discussion
Wednesday, October 14, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
Black History Month Events
February 2020
Bad Blood, Treatment and Lies: The Impact of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, 1932-1972
Black Heroines for Justice: 1980s Terrorism of the Ku Klux Klan in Chattanooga and the Women Who Stood Against Them
Confronting the Past in Memphis: Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Antebellum Slave Trade, and the Reinvention of Civil War Memory
Dr. Timothy S. Huebner
Thursday, February 20, 2020, 7:00 pm
University Center Signal Mountain Room
The Eric Morse Story: Race, Poverty, and the Criminalization of Black Youth
Dr. Susan Eckelmann Berghel
Thursday, February 13, 2020, 5:00 pm
University Center Heritage Room
Civil War and Veteran’s Day Lecture Chickamauga Battlefield and the Civil War Reconciliation Movement
This Veteran’s Day, learn how the Blue and Gray Barbecue at Crawfish Springs launched the Civil War preservation and reconciliation movements.
Monday, November 11, 7:00 PM, IMAX Theater, downtown Chattanooga
Free and open to the public
Day Trip to the National Memorial for Peace and Justice & the Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama
Sponsored by the UTC Africana Studies Program and Department of History
Saturday, October 26, 8:30 AM - 8:30 PM
Open to UTC students, faculty, and the wider campus community
Transportation, memorial and museum admission, and lunch are fully covered at no cost to participants.
Screening and Discussion of The Hate U Give
Hosted by Dr. Beth Pearce and Tiffany Mitchell
Part of the English Club movie series in relation to UHON 3520: Adolescent Literature and Intersectional Oppressions
Thursday, October 17, 7:00 PM
Library 131
Agents of Change: Documentary Screening and Discussion
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Black Studies in the United States
Sponsored by the UTC Africana Studies Program
Thursday, September 26, 5:00-7:00 PM
University Center, Multicultural Center (3rd floor)
Civil Rights Movement in Chattanooga Exhibition Opening and Panel Discussion
Event for UTC Special Collections exhibit authored by students in Professor Eckelmann Berghel’s Modern Civil Rights Struggle class
Thursday, February 21, 2019, 3:05 PM to 4:20 PM
UTC Library, Southern Writers Room (LIB 440)
Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era
A lecture by Award-Winning Historian Dr. Chad Williams, Brandeis University
Thursday, November 8, 2018, 5:00 PM
University Center Auditorium
Contact Dr. Susan Eckelmann Berghel ([email protected]) with questions
Jared Thorne Artist Talk
Part of the Cress Gallery exhibition “The Clamor of Ordinary Things”
Monday, October 29, 2018, 5:30 - 6:30pm
Fine Arts Center, Room 356
Exhibition dates: October 29th – December 12, 2018
Remembering Ed Johnson
A guided history at the Walnut Street Bridge
Sponsored by the Ed Johnson Project and The UTC Departments of English, History, and Africana Studies
Monday, September 24, 2018, 12:00 PM
Meet at the Great Dane Statue at the South end of the Walnut Street Bridge
Contact Tracye Pool ([email protected]) with questions
The Lynching of Ed Johnson in Chattanooga
A Critical Discussion of the History of Racial Violence in the U.S.
Featuring Award-Winning Historian Dr. Amy Wood (Illinois State University)
Event Series Schedule:
- Who was Ed Johnson? (Documentary Screening); Sunday, September 16, 2018, 4:00 PM Central Time; Gailor Auditorium, University of the South, Livestream Link
- The Lynching of Ed Johnson in Historical Perspective (Lecture); Monday, September 17, 2018, 5:00 PM Eastern Time; Derthick Hall, Room 101, UTC, Livestream: Link
The Legacy of Lynching in American Life (Lecture); Tuesday, September 18, 2018, 4:30 PM Central Time; Convocation Hall, University of the South, Livestream: Link
Whose Streets?
UTC Visual History Film Screening with the Filmmaker Sabaah Folayan
Monday, February 19, 2018
5:00 p.m.
Derthick Hall 201
The Reconstruction Era - A Panel Discussion
Monday, November 6, 7:00pm
Bessie Smith Cultural Center, 200 E M L King Blvd, Chattanooga
A Stranger in my Homeland - Screening with Filmmaker
A film by Chloe Traicos
Wednesday, October 25, 2017, 12:00 PM
Derthick Hall 201
4th Annual Civil War Era Lecture
Dying to Be Free: The Health Conditions of Formerly Enslaved People During the Civil War and Reconstruction
With Jim Downs of Connecticut College
Thursday, April 20, 2017, 5:30 PM
University Center Raccoon Mountain Room
MLK Historical Walking Tour
Thursday, April 6, 2017, 4:30 PM
Starts at Union Depot Historical Marker across from the Read
Meeting location address: 158 W. MLK Boulevard
Blood in the Water - The 1971 Attica Prison Uprising
The 4th Annual Africana Studies Lecture
With 2016 National Book Award finalist Heather Ann Thompson
Thursday, March 23, 5:30 PM
Derthick Hall 201
Free and open to all
The Land Between - A Film by David Fedele
UTC Visual History Film Screening with the Filmmaker
Tuesday, February 14, 5:00 PM
Derthick Hall 201
Free and open to all
Mississippi: Is This America?
UTC History Club Black History Month Documentary Film Screening
In collaboration with the UTC Multicultural Center and the UTC Film Club
Thursday, February 9, 6:00 PM
Multicultural Center in the University Center
Free and open to all, including free pizza and refreshments
Ten Little Known Facts about the Civil War in Chattanooga
A Lecture by Mr. Sam Elliott
Monday, November 14, 2016
Doors open at 6:30 PM; lecture begins at 7:00 PM
The Camp House, 149 E Martin Luther King Blvd
More Info: Facebook
Historical Tour of the Tennessee Riverfront with Maury Nicely
Sponsored by the UTC History Club and Southern Adventist University
A beautiful and historic journey into the past of Chattanooga
October 13, 2016, 5:00-6:15 PM
Chestnut Street Pier
Check out pictures of the event here
Third Annual African American History Event
May 10, 2016 -- 6:00-7:30 pm -- Bessie Smith Cultural Center
Abraham Lincoln, Emancipation, and the U.S. Colored Troops
2015-2016 Civil War Era Lecture
Dr. John David Smith
November 5, 2015
Stories of Sherman's March
2015 UTC Civil War Era Lecture
Dr. Anne Sarah Rubin
January 21, 2015
Between Race and Nation: Shirley Chisholm and National Politics
2014 UTC Black History Month Lecture
Dr. Anastasia Curwood
March 25, 2014
If There is a Worse Place than Hell, I Am in It - Abraham Lincoln as a War Leader
A Lecture by Dr. Stephen Berry
November 6, 2013