Events
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February
AADS Graduate Students Association Conference
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Venue: | FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, LC 110 |
The African and African Diaspora Graduate Student Association invites you to a day of professional development.
Karell Travel Lecture
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Venue: | FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, LC 110 |
"Conflict Early Warning and Response: Practice and Progress in the Horn of Africa" By, Laurel Burchfield, Recipient of the 2011 Karell Travel Grant
Dances of the African Diaspora (Afro-Haitian)
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Venue: | FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, GC 140 |
Dances of the African Diaspora (Afro-Haitian). Lecture and interview: Dr. Kate Ramsey, Assoc. Prof. History, University of Miami.
Post Blackness in Contemporary America
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Venue: | FIU Biscayne Bay Campus, WUC 100 |
Post Blackness in Contemporary America. Guest speaker: Touré
Human Gardens and Their Magic: Tourism, Conservation and the Naturalizing of European Visions
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Venue: | FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, LC 110 |
Human Gardens and Their Magic: Tourism, Conservation and the Naturalizing of European Visions of Humanity in the Indian Ocean Island of La Reunion.
March
The Bulletin de L'Union des Femmes Coloniales (BUFC): Early Feminism in the Congo
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Venue: | FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, LC 110 |
Dr. Jean Muteba Rahier, an Associate Professor of Anthropology and African & African Diaspora Studies at Florida International University will be presenting one of his works-in-progress on March 1, 2012 at 3:30pm in LC 110 on the Modesto Maidique Campus.
South Sudan and the Burden of Independence
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Venue: | FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, GL 220 |
5th Annual Chris Gray Memorial Lecture "South Sudan and the Burden of Independence"
The Legacy of the Algerian War: Between History, Memory and Representations
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Venue: | FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, MARC Pavilion |
AADS Proudly Sponsors “The Legacy of the Algerian War: Between History, Memory and Representations,” an International Symposium. This is a two day event which will interrogate the legacy of the Algerian War 50 years hence.
May
International Visit of an Afro-Latino Delegation
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Venue: | FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, LC 301 |
A glimpse at current research on the African diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean at FIU
Haiti: Des Initiatives International Symposium
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Venue: | Little Haiti Cultural Arts Center |
This symposium presents projects supported in global north by American, Canadian and European universities.
August
Graduate Student Orientation Fall 2012
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Venue: | Green Library 100 |
Graduate Students are required to attend this orientation. There is also an earlier time available at the same location from 2-4:30PM. This orientation will serve as an excellent way to prepare you for this upcoming academic year!
AADS Welcome Back Reception
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Venue: | 11200 SW 8th St. West Ballroom GC, Miami FL 33199 |
This will be a great kick start to a new academic year! All AADS Students, Faculty and Staff are welcome to come and enjoy a great evening!
September
The Nostalgic Present in Tanzanian Verbal Arts; Lecture By Dr. Aaron Rosenberg
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Venue: | LC 309 |
Lecture by Dr. Aaron Rosenberg Centro De Investigaciones De Mexico
October
14th Annual Eric E. Williams Memorial Lecture
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Venue: | Green Library 100 |
Reginal Dumas and Rachel Manley discuss the 50th anniversary of Independence of Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica respectively.
AADS Works-in-Progress Series: Dr. Okezi Otovo
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Venue: | LC 309 |
We continue with our Work-in-Progress series. This semester, the first presenter will be our new colleague in HIS/AADS, Dr. Okezi Otovo. She will present a chapter from her book manuscript entitled Progressive Mothers/Better Babies: Race, Health, and the State in Brazil, 1850-1945.
November
Africanos y afrodescendientes en la Argentina actual. Sus estrategias de visibilización.
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Venue: | GC 314 |
Dra. Marta Maffia presents a lecture on the lives of Afro-Argentines specifically Cape Verdean immigrants to Argentina.
3rd Annual AADS Humanities Afternoon Afro-Homo: Norming Nation, Norming Sex
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Venue: | Green Library, Room 220 |
The last several years have seen escalating concerns in the global north (largely the US and EU) for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or otherwise non-normatively identified sexual minorities in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Acts of violence against queer individuals and communities now command global publicity.This one-day symposium brings together prominent scholars, writers, artists and activists from Africa, the Caribbean, and the African diaspora.
The Works of Langston Hughes Play
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Venue: | DM 150 |
Actor and writer David Mills has worked professionally in the dramatic and literary communities for more than a decade. For three years, Mr. Mills lived as writer-in-residence in Langston Hughes’ landmark home. There, he was inspired to put together a one-person show of Hughes’ work, which he has performed in colleges throughout the country.