The World Affairs Council of Western Massachusetts will present an Instant Issues After Hours discussion event featuring Dr. Ousmane Power-Greene, the E. Franklin Frazier Chair of Africana Studies and Professor of history at Clark University, on American Abolitionists' Impact on Modern Day Black Power Movements in Europe Wednesday, May 29, 2024 at 5:45 pm, in the 9th Floor Gallery at 1350 Main Street in downtown Springfield. The cost is $25 for World Affairs Council members and $30 for non-members. A light supper will be provided. (Please contact our office at 413-733-0110 if you need a vegan or gluten-free meal or if you are high school or undergraduate student.) Registration required by Monday, May 21.
Over the course of his career, Dr. Power-Greene’s scholarship has been recognized with various fellowships, most notably the prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities’ sponsored scholar-in-residency program at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York. In 2022, Dr. Power-Greene was elected as a member of the American Antiquarian Society – one of the nation’s oldest learned societies and major independent research libraries. He has lectured in universities and conferences all over the US, and abroad--most recently at the American Academy in Rome.
Dr. Power-Greene has been featured on various media outlets, such as All Things Considered, CSPAN Book TV, and NPR’s history podcast Throughline for an episode on the legacy of Marcus Garvey’s Back-to-Africa movement. Dr. Power-Greene’s books include, Against Wind and Tide: African American Struggle Against the Colonization Movement published in 2014 and In Search of Liberty: African American Internationalism in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World, which he co-edited with Ronald A. Johnson, and was published in 2021. His most recent book, An Uneasy Alliance: African Americans, the American Colonization Society, and Liberia is scheduled for publication in 2025. Dr. Power-Greene’s debut novel, The Confessions of Matthew Strong, was published by Other Press/Random House in 2022. The novel was a finalist for the New England Book Award and listed by NPR as a Best Book of 2022.
The Instant Issues series is generously sponsored by M & T Bank, Wilbraham & Monson Academy & Sir Speedy
Special thanks to NAI Plotkin
