Past Events - 2007
Fall 2007 Events
Africa Near and Far: The Changing Nature of Afro-Brazilian Art
in the Twentieth Century
Date: Monday, October 8
Presenter: Kimberly Cleveland, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese
Cordelia Ida Beam Visiting Professor Louis A. Pérez, Jr.
Cuba and the United States: From Cultural Engagement to Political Conflict
Date: Thursday, October 11
Presenter:
Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel HillDemocracy in Latin America: Between Expectations and Experience
Date: Oct 12
Presenter: Cordelia Ida Beam Visiting Professor Louis A. Pérez, Jr.
Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Afro-Cuban Drum & Dance Ensemble Performances
Date: October 19-21
Sponsor: Dept. of Dance, Division of Performing Arts
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The World of Creole Languages: Thoughts from Haiti and Jamaica
Date: October 29
Featuring IWP writers Beaudelaine Pierre, novelist and fiction writer from Haiti, and Kei Miller, writer and editor from Jamaica. Introduction by Anny Curtius, Associate Professor of French, and Mary Lou Emery, Associate Professor of English.
¿Puedo Hablar? May I Speak?
Date: November 8
Screening of Venezuelan documentary and discussion with co-director Chris Moore.
Concert-Calle Sur
Date: Nov 29
Acoustic folk-rooted music from Latin American and the Caribbean.
Spring 2007 Events
"Caribbean Discourses and Contrapuntal Modernity"
Symbiotic Memory: Religious Manifestations in Caribbean Literatures
Date: February 5
Presenter: Anny Dominique Curtius, Dept. of French & Italian, The University of Iowa
La Comtesse Merlin: A Cuban Family Romance and Abolitionist Discourse
Date: February 5
Presenter: Adriana Mendez Rodenas, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, The University of Iowa
African American Slave Architecture: Issues and Opportunities
Date: February 26
Presenter: Barbara Mooney, Dept. of Art & Art History, The University of Iowa
Nanas, Jungle, Monte: An Afro-Caribbean Discourse
Date: March 7
Presenter: Julia Cuervo Hewitt, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, Penn State University
Co-sponsored with UI Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese
Arts of Seeing: Transatlantic Modernism and Anglophone Caribbean Literature
Date: March 26
Presenter: Mary Lou Emery, Dept. of English, The University of Iowa
Emerging Creole: Creolization and the Construction of Culture
Date: April 6 (rescheduled from December)
Presenter: Sidney Mintz, Dept. of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
Co-sponsored with UI Dept. of Anthropology
Steeldrum Workshop and Presentation
Date: May 2
Presenter: Ray Holman, Composer/Performer of Trinidad
Co-sponsored with School of Music
World Percussion Concert
Date: May 5
Presenter: Ray Holman, Composer/Performer of Trinidad
