CMU 2026 Juneteenth Keynote Lecture Simmons Auditorium, Tepper Building Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 05/20/2026 - 19:53 In Person - Registration Required
Juneteenth: The Unfinished Work of Freedom
AMANDA BOSTON The Office of the Vice Provost for Community, Culture and Engagement invites the CMU community to the 2026 Juneteenth Keynote Lecture: Juneteenth: The Unfinished Work of Freedom Dr. Amanda Boston is an assistant professor of Africana studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research, writing and teaching focus on twentieth-century and contemporary African American history, politics and popular culture. She is completing her first book on gentrification’s racial operations and the making and unmaking of Black communities in Brooklyn, New York, and has published related works in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes in sociology and urban history. Boston has received research funding and support from the Ford Foundation, the Institute for Citizens & Scholars, the Social Science Research Council and the Wallace Foundation, among other sources. She holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Africana Studies from Brown University, as well as an M.A. in political science and a B.A. in political science and African & African American studies from Duke University. Learn more REGISTER ⇢ Requested by Tuesday, June 16 @ 5:00 pm ⇢ Following the lecture, join in for a reception co-hosted by Sankofa Black Alliance . June 17, 2026 5:00PM June 17, 2026 6:30PM Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Africana StudiesUniversity of Pittsburgh
Academic Calendar Highlight vp-cce@andrew.cmu.edu Artificial Intelligence Graphics Programming Languages Security Systems Theory Simmons Auditorium, Tepper Building Speaker: AMANDA BOSTON, Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Africana StudiesUniversity of Pittsburgh Talk Title: Juneteenth: The Unfinished Work of Freedom The Office of the Vice Provost for Community, Culture and Engagement invites the CMU community to the 2026 Juneteenth Keynote Lecture: Juneteenth: The Unfinished Work of Freedom Dr. Amanda Boston is an assistant professor of Africana studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research, writing and teaching focus on twentieth-century and contemporary African American history, politics and popular culture. She is completing her first book on gentrification’s racial operations and the making and unmaking of Black communities in Brooklyn, New York, and has published related works in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes in sociology and urban history. Boston has received research funding and support from the Ford Foundation, the Institute for Citizens & Scholars, the Social Science Research Council and the Wallace Foundation, among other sources. She holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Africana Studies from Brown University, as well as an M.A. in political science and a B.A. in political science and African & African American studies from Duke University. Learn more REGISTER ⇢ Requested by Tuesday, June 16 @ 5:00 pm ⇢ Following the lecture, join in for a reception co-hosted by Sankofa Black Alliance. Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science Department (CSD) Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) Language Technologies Institute (LTI) Machine Learning Department (MLD) Partnerships Ray and Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department (CBD) Robotics Institute (RI) Software and Societal Systems Department (S3D)