African and African American Studies

'Religion and Black Lives Matter' to be tackled in Rockwell Lecture Series

Next talk Oct. 1 features leading Africana philosopher Lewis R. Gordon.

Which lives matter? Couti leads international forum Sept. 25 on race and policing in France

The public webinar will be preceded by special Humanities Now session for Rice undergrads.

MLK’s ‘I Have a Dream' speech to be revisited in Aug. 28 lecture by Walter Earl Fluker

In commemoration of the anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, at which Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his historic “I Have a Dream” speech, the Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS) will host an Aug. 28 lecture via Zoom by renowned speaker Walter Earl Fluker.

Acclaimed author Bryan Washington appointed Scholar-in-Residence for Racial Justice at Rice

Washington will be the first to occupy an 'important and necessary' position at the university.

Visiting Artist Lecture Series coming to a close with Gaines, Miller

New York-based writer and artist Malik Gaines gave a lecture Feb. 7 at the Rice Media Center to an auditorium of Rice students, faculty and staff who were also treated to a screening of one of Gaines’ recent short films.

Media advisory: 'Radical Revisionists' opening Jan. 24 at Rice’s Moody Center for the Arts

HOUSTON – (Jan. 16, 2020) – Rice’s Moody Center for the Arts will unveil its spring exhibition Jan. 24 with an opening reception for “Radical Revisionists: Contemporary African Artists Confronting Past and Present.”