During a week in the heart of Paris, explore the “City of Light” through the lens of the African American experience, following in the footsteps of the intellectuals, performers, and musicians such as Josephine Baker and James Baldwin who found a warm welcome in the city in first half of the 20th century—and who left a lasting impact on culture in France and the world.

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Jazz musicians in Paris

Josephine Baker, Paris, 1926, by Stanislaus Julian Walery. Credit: National Portrait Gallery

Richard Wright, photo by Carl Van Vechten. Credit: National Portrait Gallery. ©Van Vechten Trust

Lieutenant James Reese and Harlem Hellfighter musicians. Credit: National Archives (165-WW-127-22)

Group of Harlem Hellfighter soldiers

Portrait of W.E.B. Du Bois. Credit: National Archives (H-HNP-16)

Montmartre, Paris

Entrance to the Louvre, Paris

Street-side café in Paris

The Palace of Versailles

The Hall of Mirrors at Versailles

Paris: The African American Experience

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Jun 22 - 30, 2024 Departure

Frieda Ekotto

Lorna Goodison Collegiate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Comparative Literature and Francophone Studies at the University of Michigan. As an intellectual historian and philosopher with areas of expertise in 20th and 21st-century Anglophone and Francophone literature and in the cinema of West Africa and its diaspora, she concentrates on contemporary issues of law, race and LGBTQIA2S+issues. Her primary research to date has focused on how law serves to repress and mask the pain of disenfranchised subjects; her intention in this work is to trace what cannot be said in order to address and expose suffering from a variety of angles and cultural intersections and reassess the position and agency of the dispossessed. She is the author of multiple books, and numerous book chapters as well as many articles in prestigious literary journals. She is currently working on LGBTQIA2S+ issues, with an emphasis on Sub-Sahara African cultures within Africa as well as in Europe and the Americas. In addition to her academic work, she is also a creative writer. She received the Nicolàs Guillèn Prize for Philosophical Literature in 2014 and in 2015 she was awarded the Benezet Award for excellence in her field. In 2016, she was awarded the John H. D’Arms Faculty for Distinguished Graduate Mentoring in the Humanities at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In 2018, she was awarded an Honorary Degree at Colorado College. She has produced two documentaries in 2017 Vibrancy of Silence: A Discussion with My Sisters and in 2021 Zurura Zurura: A Smile Blooms as part of the ongoing research on Vibrancy of Silence: Images and Cultural Production of Sub-Saharan African Women. She was the President of Modern Languages Association (2023-2024.) She will be the Commencement Speaker for 2024 at the Colorado College in May.

Oct 12 - 20, 2024 Departure

Kaiama Glover

Kaiama L. Glover is Ann Whitney Olin Professor of French and Africana Studies at Yale University. She has written extensively about francophone literature, gender, and postcoloniality in such works as A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being and Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon, and she is the prize-winning translator of several works of prose fiction and non-fiction from French into English. She has edited volumes on Josephine Baker, Marie Chauvet, and Maryse Condé, and her current projects include an intellectual biography titled, For the Love of Revolution: René Depestre and the Poetics of a Radical Life. Her scholarly and translation work has been supported by fellowships at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris, the New York Public Library Cullman Center, the PEN/Heim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Mellon Foundation. She is a regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review and is the co-host of WRITING HOME | American Voices from the Caribbean.