Symposia, Conferences & Lectures

  • Fire! Searching for African American Leadership—The third annual Peters Symposium (Spring 2006)
  • The Long Reach of African American Poetics: A Mini-Conference Celebrating the Influence of African American Cadences and Verse—In conjunction with The Creative Writing Program and the Department of English (Fall 2005)
  • Don’t Quit Now: American Americans in Higher Education—The second annual Peters Symposium (Spring 2004)
  • Uncommon Faithfulness: The Witness of African American Catholics—in cooperation with the Cushwa Center (Spring 2004)
  • African Americans in the Academy—The first annual Peters Symposium (Spring 2004)
  • Race in the Americas Lecture Series—in cooperation with the Institute for Latino Studies (Fall 2003 - Spring 2004)
  • A Call to Solidarity with Africa: Americans and Africans in Dialogue about Africa’s Promise, Needs, and Image—in cooperation with the Theology department and the Institute for Church Life (Fall 2003 & Spring 2004)
  • “Drumbeats and Dialogue”: Creating New Rhythms for Diversity in Higher Education (Spring 2002)
  • “Women, Religion, and the African Diaspora” (Fall 2001)
  • Conceptualizing Diversity in Higher Education (Spring 2001)
  • African-American Women’s Labor (Spring 2000)