Transnational Actors in Black and Red: Africans and African Americans in the USSR

Talk with Dr. Harold D. „Hal“ Weaver, Harvard University

The presentation will revolve around questions like: What were Africans and African Americans seeking in the Soviet Union that they could not find in their own countries? What did they actually discover in the Soviet Union?

The lecture, with complementary video clips, aims at correcting the historical illiteracy in transnational cultural relations between the Soviet Union and Africa and the African Diaspora.

Dr. Hal Weaver, Fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University, was the founding Chairperson of the Department of Africana Studies at Rutgers University. Currently, he works on a study in transnational history that focuses on Soviet training programs for Africa, which he intends to use as a model in a study of current Chinese programs.

In English.

In cooperation with Slavisches Seminar, Englisches Seminar, Abteilung für Amerikanistik, Sonderforschungsbereich “Bedrohte Ordnungen”, and Gleichstellungsrat der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Tübingen.