Events

Explore upcoming and past events offered by the Winthrop-King Institute. Visit calendar.fsu.edu to learn more.

Past Events

Afrotopias

5th Global Africas: Afrotopias

Apr. 10, 2025 – Apr. 11, 2025
Cemetery of Cinema

"The Cemetery of Cinema" - A film by Thierno Souleymane Diallo

Mar. 22, 2025
Homo Sargassum

HOMO SARGASSUM International Symposium

Mar. 4, 2025 – Mar. 6, 2025
"lo Capitano"

“Io Capitano”

Oct. 9, 2024
Homo Sargassum

HOMO SARGASSUM International Symposium

Sep. 26, 2024 – Sep. 27, 2024
Writers in Residence

Writers in Residence: Naomi Fontaine and Gisèle Pineau

Mar. 25, 2024 – Mar. 29, 2024
From the Sahara to the Sahel event

From the Sahara to the Sahel, Nomadic Voices, Cultures and Literatures

Feb. 8, 2024 – Feb. 9, 2024
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4th Global Africas: Africa and China

Nov. 2, 2023 – Nov. 9, 2023
Migrants Shaping Europe

Roundtable with the editors of Migrants, Shaping Europe, Past and Present

Sep. 8, 2023 – Sep. 8, 2023
Writing the First Peoples

Writing the First Peoples of the Americas: Quebec, Florida, Amazonia, The Caribbean

Apr. 5, 2023 – Apr. 7, 2023
Women's Words

Women's Words: Caribbean Worlds

Mar. 3, 2023 – Mar. 4, 2023
Leah Gordon

Leah Gordon - Kanaval: A People's History of Haiti

Feb. 21, 2023 – Feb. 22, 2023
Global Africas: Senegal

3rd Global Africas: Senegal: Past and/as Present [Sénégal passé/present]

Nov. 3, 2022 – Nov. 4, 2022
The Broken Mirror

The Broken Mirror: Christine and the Queens and Global Frenchness

Oct. 20, 2022
Tokyo Stories

Tokyo Stories: Writing the World with Michaël Ferrier

Mar. 21, 2022 – Mar. 22, 2022
Book Panel

Book Panel: The Struggle of Non-Sovereign Caribbean Territories

Feb. 11, 2022
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2nd Global Africas: Gender Representation and the Maghreb

Nov. 11, 2021 – Nov. 12, 2021
Postcolonial Realms of Memory

Postcolonial Realms of Memory: Sites and Symbols in the Modern Francosphere

Oct. 7, 2021 – Oct. 8, 2021
Oral Tradition from West Africa and the Balkans to Florida

Oral Tradition from West Africa and the Balkans to Florida: A Zoom Symposium

Apr. 14, 2021
Practices of Freedom

Practices of Freedom: Marronage in the Caribbean

Apr. 2, 2021
Cognitive Decoloniality

Cognitive Decoloniality: Two Cultures and the Transcultural

Feb. 18, 2021
Global Africas Congolese

Global Africas: Congolese Literature, Music, and Art in the 21st Century

Nov. 5, 2020 – Nov. 6, 2020
Disaster in the Circum-Caribbean

From Katrina to Michael: Disaster in the 21st-century Circum-Caribbean

Feb. 20, 2020 – Feb. 21, 2020
To be Black in France

To be Black in France, Black and French.

Jan. 30, 2020

Looking for information about older events? email winthropking@fsu.edu.