Heyman Center for the Humanities (East Campus)
“Black Europe: A Field on the Move” is a one-day, interdisciplinary graduate student conference open to the entire Columbia community and members of the public. Scholars across disciplines are increasingly treating “Black Europe” as a pertinent object of study. Yet much disagreement remains on what “Black Europe” is. Does Black Europe describe a place, an identity, an aspiration, or something else? Scholars oscillate between terms such as “Afropean,” “African-European,” and “Black European.” Moreover, the institutionalization of Black European studies remains a work in progress, and views vary on whether Black European studies is an academic field, a subsection of Black Studies or African Diaspora Studies, or a reference point for a set of inquiries and practices that exceed the bounds of academic discipline. See the attached flyer and registration link for panel details.
The conference is free to attend but registration is required. Questions for the organizers? Reach us at blackeurope2025@gmail.com
Organizers: Rochelle Malcolm (PhD candidate, History), Mayaki Kimba (PhD candidate, Political Science), and Zarino Lanni (PhD student, Anthropology)
Sponsors: Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP), The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities, Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Arts and Sciences Graduate Council, European Institute, Department of Political Science, Department of Africana Studies (Barnard College), Department of Anthropology, Department of History, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, Department of French, Small Axe Project, Department of Germanic Languages
