Past Events
Spring 2006 Lecture and Performance Series
Afro-Caribbean Legacies: Memory, Ritual, Resistance
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Silencing Slavery in Puerto Rico : Contemporary Representations of African Heritage in Elementary Education
Presenter: Isar P. Godreau-Visiting Professor, UI Dept. of Anthropology; Researcher and Director, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Puerto Rico at Cayey
Discussant: Paul Greenough, UI Dept. of History
The Voice of the Slave: Juan Francisco Manzano's Poetics of Resistance
Date: April 4, 2006
Presenter: José Gomariz, Assistant Professor, Florida State University
Discussant: Adriana Méndez Rodenas, UI Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese
Gaspar Betancourt Cisneros ' El Lugareño': Modernity, Slavery, and Enlightenment in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
Date: April 3, 2006
Presenter: José Gomariz, Assistant Professor, Florida State University
Spring 2006 Graduate Student Colloquium:
Cuban and Jamaican Cultural Practices in Contemporary Luanda
Date: March 8, 2006
Presenter: Beatriz Rodríguez Feo, ABD, Dept. of Anthropology
The Poetics of Negrismo and Négritude
Date: March 8, 2006
Presenter: Mamadou Badiane, ABD, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese
Discussant: Anny Curtius, Dept. of French & Italian, and Peter Nazareth, English and African Studies
Horse-headed Woman: The Hybrid Art of Lydia Cabrera and Wilfredo Lam
Date: February 20, 2006
Presenter: Diana K. Davies, Director, International Programs
Dessalines Toro d’Haiti:’ The Archive of Voudou
Date: February 1st, 2006
Presenter: Laurent Dubois, Dept. of History, Michigan State University
Discussant: Mark Peterson, Dept. of History