Spring 2007 Events

Spring 2007 Lecture and Performance Series:
Caribbean Discourses and Contrapuntal Modernity

World Percussion Concert

Date: May 5, 2007 - World Percussion Concert
Presenter: Ray Holman, Composer/Performer of Trinidad

Steeldrum Workshop and Presentation

Date: May 2, 2007
Presenter: Ray Holman, Composer/Performer of Trinidad
Co-sponsored with School of Music

Emerging Creole: Creolization and the Construction of Culture

Date: April 6, 2007 -
Presenter: Sidney Mintz, Dept. of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
Co-sponsored with UI Dept. of Anthropology

Arts of Seeing: Transatlantic Modernism and Anglophone Caribbean Literature

Date: March 26, 2007
Presenter: Mary Lou Emery, Dept. of English, The University of Iowa

Nanas, Jungle, Monte: An Afro-Caribbean Discourse

Date: March 7, 2007
Presenter: Julia Cuervo Hewitt, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, Penn State University
Co-sponsored with UI Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese

African American Slave Architecture: Issues and Opportunities

Date: Feb. 26, 2007
Presenter: Barbara Mooney, Dept. of Art & Art History, The University of Iowa

Symbiotic Memory: Religious Manifestations in Caribbean Literatures

Date: February 5, 2007
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, 2007
Presenter: Adriana Mendez Rodenas, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, The University of Iowa