Upcoming Events

The Library provides workshops on various Library resources throughout the Academic year. Visit our workshops page for more information.

The Library Academic Technology department offers a variety of Canvas trainings for faculty. You can register for them here.

The Exploring Social Justice Series, a program cosponsored by the American University Library, the Center for Diversity and Inclusion, and the Kay Spiritual Life Center, features exemplary leaders and scholars from diverse backgrounds who have advocated for human rights and social justice issues.

View recordings from our virtual lecture series:

• Inspiring Radical Creativity: Empowering Young, Diverse Voices
  Presented by Gabby Rivera (Watch - AU Credentials Required)
• Is Wildness Over?
  Presented By Paul Wapner (Watch)
• The Long Arm of Slavery in the Development of American Gynecology
  Presented By Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens (Watch)
• The Half-Life of Freedom, Race, and Justice in America Today
  Presented By Dr. Jelani Cobb (Watch - AU Credentials Required)
• Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
  Presented By Marcia Chatelain (Watch)
• Understanding Justice Systems and Moving to a World Without Prisons
  Presented By Dr. Baz Dreisinger (Watch)
• No Lone Wolves: The White Power Movement at War
  Presented By Kathleen Belew (Watch - AU Credentials Required)
• Sex Work, Media Networks, and Transpacific Histories of Affect
  Presented By Lily Wong (Watch)
• A Practice in Protest: The Work of Early Black Women Physicians
  Presented By Vanessa Northington Gamble, MD, PhD (Watch)

View all past Exploring Social Justice lectures.