2024-25 CHAS Occasional Speaker Series
Join us again in November for our next event!
NEW DATE: Friday, November 1st, 2p Eastern / 11a Pacific
A Conversation with Dr. Amanda Joyce Hall
Amanda Joyce Hall is an assistant professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a scholar of twentieth-century social movements, with a specialization in Black freedom movements throughout the U.S., Africa, and the world.
Professor Hall’s forthcoming book is a transnational social history examining international opposition to South African apartheid within the Black diaspora in the 1970s and 1980s. She earned her doctorate in History and African American Studies from Yale University, where she won Fulbright, Ford Foundation, and Newcombe Foundation fellowships for her research.
Her writings have appeared in peer-reviewed academic journals, such as the Journal of African American History and Third World Thematics, and in several prominent public outlets:
▪︎ The Conversation
(“Calls for divestment from apartheid South Africa gave today’s pro-Palestinian student activists a blueprint to follow”)
▪︎ Jacobin
(“Student Divestment Campaigns Can Work”)
▪︎ The Emancipator
(“Anti-apartheid is a politics that demands a better world”)
Faculty & staff affiliates of member institutions may join us by registering here.
During October, consider attending the Harvard Institutional Antiracism and Accountability (IARA) Project’s 2024 Truth and Transformation Conference, “Standing our Ground: Strategic responses to the anti-DEI movement,” on October 16. Also, the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2024 Brown Lecture in Education Research, “Brown v. Board of Education and the Democratic Ideals,” will be delivered on October 24.
Wednesday, September 25th, 4p Eastern / 1p Pacific
A Conversation with Dr. Isaac Kamola
Isaac Kamola is an associate professor of political science at Trinity College, Hartford, CT. He is author of Free Speech and Koch Money: Manufacturing a Campus Culture War (with Ralph Wilson, 2021) and Making the World Global: US Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary (2019), along with dozens of journal articles and book chapters.
He is currently the director of the Mellon-funded Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom at the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), which recently published Professor Kamola’s report, “Manufacturing Backlash: Right-Wing Think Tanks and Legislative Attacks on Higher Education, 2021–2023.” He has also shared perspectives on academic freedom in The Conversation and Inside Higher Ed.