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"Ethnic Differences in African Literatures," by Professor Justo Bolekia from the University of Salamanca, Spain
Wednesday, April 17, 2013, at 4:00 in the Arts and Science Building, room 113
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Wikipeida entry for Justo Bolekia
Professor Robaina’s Visit
University of Missouri-Columbia
February 13, 2013
"Are We Moving Forward with the Fight Against Racism in Cuba," by Professor Tomás Fernández Robaina from the National Library of Havana, Cuba
Wednesday, February 13, 2013, at 4:00 in Arts Science 113
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Conference: Cultural Bricolage: Artist Books of Cuba’s Ediciones Vigía, to be held on November 11-13, 2012.
Post-Conference Event: Poetry Reading by Nancy Morejón and Salgado Maranhao, Wednesday, November 14, 2012, 105 Strickland at 4:00 PM
Nancy Morejón, Cuban Poet Laureate
Salgado Maranhao, Brazilian Poet Laureate
For more information and to see the full program, go to the conference website: http://vigia.missouri.edu/
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"The Slave Trade in the Southern Atlantic: Shifting Paradigms" by MU Professor of History Daniel Domingues
Friday, October 26, 2012, at 4:00 in Memorial Union S203
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Symposium: Genocide in Rwanda, Thursday, April 26-Saturday, April 28, 2012.
Keynote addresses:
Carl Wilkens: “Why I Chose to Stay in Rwanda,” Friday, April 27, 7:00 P.M., Ellis Auditorium (Ellis Library Building)
Canadian Senator Roméo Dallaire: “Are All Humans Human?”, Saturday, April 28, 3:30, Bush Auditorium, Cornell Hall, room 201
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Symposium on Slave Narrative and Racial Issues in Cuba
Monday, September 19, 3:30-5:30, Memorial Union N103A
Speakers: Dr. Marlène Marty and Dr. Victorien Lavou from France
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Mark Schuller: Poto Mitan: Haitian Women Pillars of the Global Economy
Friday, September 16, 2011
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Georgina Herrera: A Twentieth-Century Maroon Symposium
Friday, April 29, 2011
Morning sessions in the Legends room of Myzou Rec Center
Afternoon sessions at the Black Culture Center
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Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo: Equatorial Guinea: Culture and Politics
Monday, April 18, 2011 in Arts and Science, 113
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Jan Hoffman French: Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil's Northeast
Friday, March 11, 2011 at 3:30, Black Culture Center
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Jean-Germain Gros: Anatomy of a Natural Disaster: When the Fury of Nature Meets the Debility of the State
Thursday, March 3, 2011 at 3:30, Black Culture Center
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Reyneld Sanon: Housing Rights, Evictions, and the Displaced
Thursday, March 3, 2011 at 3:30, Black Culture Center
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Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell: The Company of Heaven
Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 3:30, Black Culture Center
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Gina Ulysse : I am a Storm
Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 3:30, Black Culture Center
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William Luis: Blacks, Slaves, and Antislavery Narrative: The Emergence of Cuba's National Literature
Tuesday, November 9, 2010 at 3:30 p.m.
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Nancy Morejón: Bilingual poetry reading
Thursday, October 14, 2010 at 4:30
Museum of Anthropology
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Gloria Rolando Lecture: 1912 Breaking the Silence
Friday, April 9, 2010, 4:00 - 6:00pm
114 Arts & Science building
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Lecture sponsored by the MU Afro-Romance Institute, the Ragtag Cinema, and the Sonya Haynes Stone Center at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Doris Lorraine Garraway Lecture: Print, Publics, and the Universal in King Henry Christophe's Haiti
Friday, April 16, 2010 3:30pm
Memorial Union North 201-202 (Mark Twain Room)
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Sponsored by: The Afro-Romance Institute, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Faculty and Graduate Student Seminar Series, the Department of English, and the Department of German and Russian Studies.
The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures of the University of Missouri-Columbia has the country's only focus area in the field of Afro-Romance Studies. In order to facilitate research collaboration between our faculty members working in this field and scholars outside our institution, we have established the Institute for Languages and Literatures of the African Diaspora. The Institute serves first and foremost to expose black writers of French, Portuguese and Spanish expression to a wider audience.
The Institute's primary focus is the literature and language of selected areas of Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America and the United States, and the interrelations between these three poles of the African dispersion. It coordinates a number of both internal and external programs designed to bring the literature of black writers of French, Portuguese, and Spanish expression into the academic mainstream:
- Curricular reform
new courses at both the graduate and undergraduate level
the implementation of an undergraduate minor in Afro-Romance Literature in translation
- Conferences and symposia
featuring some of the most respected Afro-Romance writers and researchers in the field
The primary methodology for research sponsored and promoted by the Institute is post-colonial cultural and linguistic theory. The goal of the Institute is not to deny traditional critical methodologies their rightful place in the history of ideas, but rather to offer a complementary way of looking at culture and literature. Because canon formation is linked to the social class and cultural context of majority cultures, we believe that an understanding of post-colonial (and post-modern) theory is essential for understanding and ultimately remedying the academic marginalization of Afro-Romance writers.
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