CBESA is an interdisciplinary research hub dedicated to the collection, production, restoration, dissemination and promotion of scholarship on people of African descent in Europe.
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1pm-4pm Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
News

May 21-23, 2025 - Black France Noire Inaugural Symposium
CBESA is one of the Centers behind the BLACK | FRANCE | NOIRE project, an initiative looking at "Black” French Studies as a capacious field that merits exploration along multiple lines of inquiry.
April 15 , 2025- Launch of Global Network for the Study of Africans and People of African Descent (G-SAP)
This side-event on April 15th at the UN Headquarters in NYC will officially launch the Global Network for the Study of Africans and People of African Descent (G-SAP).
April 14–17, 2025- Fourth session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent
The fourth session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent will be held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, United States, from 14 to 17 April 2025, with the theme: Africa and people of African descent: United for reparatory justice in the age of Artificial Intelligence.
February 14, 2025 - The Revue des Colonies: Diasporic Networks and the Struggle for Abolition
CBESA Postdoctoral scholar, Jessica Balguy, presented a paper at this colloqium highlighting the first French periodical directed by people of color.
Curated by CBESA
We Were Here: The Untold Story of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe
March 28, 2025, McConomy Auditorium