Events
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)
image from the film Placido, The Blood of the Poet, directed by Sergio Giral, 1986.
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):
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 >>
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