Proof of registration, via a QR code on your phone or on paper, will be required to enter Reid Hall. Entry will be refused to those who are not registered. Please note that access will not be permitted 15 minutes after the start of the event.
This event will be held in English.
Organized by the Columbia Global Paris Center. With the support of a convening grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art. With the participation of the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Danforth Art Museum at Framingham State University.
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This event will be livestreamed. Register here to access the Zoom.
What draws African American artists, writers, and intellectuals to Paris and Europe? What do they discover here, and what do they leave behind? From Henry Ossawa Tanner to Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, from James Baldwin to countless scholars and creators who have traveled to Paris, Paris has long been a city where Black Americans have sought freedom, community, and creative space.
This public conversation brings together two leading voices on the history of African Americans abroad. Tamara Walker, professor of Africana Studies at Columbia University and author of Beyond the Shores: A History of African Americans Abroad, will be in conversation with Maboula Soumahoro, Associate Professor at Tours University and founder of Black History Month France. Together they will explore the long history of this transatlantic journey, its promises, its contradictions, and its enduring resonance — with ample time for questions from the audience.
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This event is made possible with the support of a convening grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art. The Terra Foundation, established in 1978 and having offices in Chicago and Paris, supports organizations and individuals locally and globally with the aim of fostering intercultural dialogues and encouraging transformative practices that expand narratives of American art, through the foundation’s grant program, collection, and initiatives.
This event will take place in Reid Hall’s Grande Salle Ginsberg-LeClerc, built in 1912 and extensively renovated in 2023 thanks to the generous support of Judith Ginsberg and Paul LeClerc.
Reid Hall, the Columbia Global Paris Center, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination are not responsible for the views and opinions expressed by their speakers and guests.
