Events

Haitian Vodou, History, and Culture Symposium
October 16, 2009< 3:00 - 5:00pm
Black Culture Center, Multipurpose Room
flyer (Word)   photo gallery

Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
"Historical Discourse and Cultural Discourses: Vodou and Statescraft in Haiti"

Kate Ramsey, University of Miami
"Penalizing Vodou and Promoting “Voodoo” in U.S.-Occupied Haiti, 1915-1934"

Symposium sponsored by The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures,
The Afro-Romance Institute for Languages and Literatures of the African Diaspora, MU Lectures Committee, the Department of Religious Studies, and the Film Studies Program.

Film Screening and Dialogue with Filmmaker:
Eat for This Is My Body (Mange, ceci est mon corps)
October 14 and 15, 2009
flyer (pdf)

Film Screening and Dialogue with Filmmakers: Rwanda 94
April 26 & 27, 2009

Belgian film-makers, Marie-France Collard and Phillippe Taszman (left) spoke to an audience about their film, Rwanda 94 on April 27, 2009.

Rwanda 94 is a multi-genre dramatic representation of the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda. The Belgian based theater troupe, Groupov, spent five years collecting testimonies of survivors, and conducting research in order to find the appropriate forum from which “to speak the unspeakable.” The lecture is sponsored by Afro-Romance Institute, Office of the Vice Provost of International Programs, Peace Studies & Step Up! and the American Association of Rwandan Women.

Professor Annice Wetzel (left)
Professor Rangira (Béa) Gallimore (below left)

Rwanda 94 is a multi-genre dramatic representation of the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda. The Belgian based theater troupe, Groupov, spent five years collecting testimonies of survivors, and conducting research in order to find the appropriate forum from which “to speak the unspeakable”.

Film Screening:
Sunday Sunday, April 26, 2009
4:00 - 7:00 pm
Allen Auditorium, Arts & Science Bldg

Monday, April 27, 2009
5:00 - 6:00pm
113 Arts & Science Bldg

Sponsored by
Afro-Romance Institute
Office of the Vice Provost of International Programs
Peace Studies
Step Up! American Association of Rwandan Women

poster (pdf)

José Siale Djangany on Equatorial Guinean Writers and Literary Expression

José Siale Djangany (left), an Equatorial Guinean novelist, has written three novels, the most recent of which is Autoretrato de un infiel (Self-portrait of an Infidel) as well as articles on Equatorial Guinean literature and on the judicial system of his country.

Monday, March 30, 2009
4:00 pm
Black Cultural Center, Main Multipurpose Room

Conference Program (pdf)

José Siale Djangany spoke to an audience in the Black Culture Center on Monday, March 30. The lecture coincided with the 40th anniversary of Equatorial Guinea’s independence from Spain and focused on the literary expression in Equatorial Guinea, which is the only Spanish speaking country south of the Sahara.

Michael Ugarte, professor of Spanish, introduced Djangany to approximately 50 faculty, staff and students. Djangany, who presented his lecture in Spanish, told how the writings of Equatorial Guinea are not taught to students, but rather they are still learning the writings of Spaniards.

“The exclusion of the element in the educational system will result in young Equatorial Guineans passing through life unaware of the horizons of a person steeped in the random happenings of society; horizons difficult or impossible to find in everyday life,” says Djangany. “These can only be found through a reinterpretation of events and lived experience. Thus, these students-young and old-will have only a mediocre knowledge of Equatorial Guinea.”

Symposium on Afro-Caribbean Music, Race, and Identity
Friday, February 27, 2009
beginning at 3:30 pm
Black Cultural Center, Main Multipurpose Room

Conference Program (pdf)

Conference on Afro-Romance Film and Culture
April 3 - 4, 2008
8:15 a.m. - evening each day
The Legends Room, Mizzou Rec Center

Conference Program (Word)
 

Celebrating Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo's work
November 14, 2007 - 3 p.m.
Black Culture Center (large lecture room)
Reception will follow

The Afro-Romance Institute and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures are pleased to announce the publication of Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo’s newest novel El metro and his first English translation Shadows of Your Black Memory (Michael Ugarte, translator). The guest speaker will be Professor Benita Sampedro (Hofstra University) who will speak on "The Shadows of History and the Amorphous Globality: Migrants from the South."
More information on the event. (Word)

Columbia Daily Tribune article on Donato (11-15-2007)

Symposium on Afro-Caribbean Cultural Identity

Thursday, April 5, 2007
Black Culture Center
Main Multipurpose Room

Organized by the Afro-Romance Institute

Conference Schedule [in Word]

In April 2006, the Afro-Romance Theatre and Culture international conference was held at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

The Afro-Romance Theater and Culture Conference, April 6-7, brought playwrights Adriana Genta (Uruguay), Rafael Selva Murillo (Honduras), Rosa María Britton (Panamá), Pedro Perez Sarduy (Cuba/England), Staley Péan (Haiti/Canada), and Donato Ndongo from Equatorial Guinea, who was Writer in Residence in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Missouri-Columbia, for 2005-2006. Scholars from around the country attended and delivered papers on Afro-Romance theatre and literature.

Conference Program (in Word)

Conference Presentations (in Word):

• Pamela Carmell: Translating Poetry by Nancy Morejón: An Intimate Art
• Juan Antonio De Urda Anguita: La voz híbrida de Francisco Zamora
• Mamadou Badiane: La representación de la mujer en el negrismo y la négritude
• Pedro Pérez Sarduy: Afro-Cuba, Afro-Cubans and Afro-Cubanía: How Black is Cuba Becoming?
• María Cecilia Saenz–Roby: Resistencia e hibridez en Las tinieblas de tu memoria negra de Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo

Center for Arts and Humanities Salon: Reception and Exhibit of Ediciones Vigía Handmade art books from Matanzas, Cuba

On Friday, April 7, 2006, the Afro-Romance Theatre and Culture conference, organized and presented by Juanamaria Cordones-Cook, MU Romance Languages Professor, included this reception and exhibit.
Reception and exhibit photo album >>

Contact: Dr. Flore Zéphir, Acting Institute Director and Department Chair, email: zephirf@missouri.edu

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