Africana and Latin American Studies Program
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A Mother Apart
Thu, Mar 27, 2025 7pm to 9pm
Staceyann Chin in person How do you raise a child when your own mother abandoned you? In a remarkable story of healing and forgiveness, Jamaican American poet and LGBTQ+ activist Staceyann Chin,...
Catching Breeze with Staceyann Chin
Fri, Mar 28, 2025 11:30am to 1:30pm
Join Africana and Latin American Studies, Film and Media Studies, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in Celebration of Carribean Week! Meet Staceyann Chin, poet, performer, and activist,...
Migratory Journeys to the United States as Seen Through Contemporary Mexican Theater
Thu, Apr 10, 2025 4:30pm
The era of refugees and migrants, encompassing most of the 20th and 21st centuries, is characterized by displaced and transient human masses. They come crowded in boats, trains, trucks, cars, on...
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Blackstar Selects
Thu, Mar 6, 2025 7pm to 9pm
Since 2012, the BlackStar Film Festival has celebrated the visual and storytelling traditions of the African diaspora and global Indigenous communities, showcasing films by Black and Brown people...
M Is for Mother/Who Killed Eloa
Thu, Feb 27, 2025 7pm to 9pm
Followed by virtual Q&A with director Lívia Perez A tender meditation on love, identity, and resilience, M is for Mothers follows Brazilian couple Melanie and Marcela as they embark on their...
Inside Tenement Time: Suss, Spirit, and Surveillance
Tue, Feb 25, 2025 11:30am to 1pm
Kezia Page, Associate Professor of English and ALST, will share from her recently published book, Inside Tenement Time: Suss, Spirit, and Surveillance. The book looks at surveillance in Jamaica as...
Twankle & Glisten
Thu, Feb 20, 2025 7pm to 9pm
TWANKLE & GLISTEN is a DJ-driven exhibition of music focusing on old-school southern rap music by artists such as Outkast, Three 6 Mafia, UGK, 8Ball & MJG, and more. The event will be the first IRL...
Beyond The Dream: Embracing a More Complicated Martin Luther King
Tue, Feb 11, 2025 4:30pm to 6pm
In hallowing Martin Luther King Jr., we have hollowed him. We have replaced his radical vision for justice with a romantic image of a man who stands for little more than love and peace. For the...
Olin Hall, 350 (Love Auditorium)
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Shirley Graham and W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture: Julian Boal
Wed, Nov 6, 2024 4:30pm
In his keynote lecture, "On Old Forms in New Times: Theatre of the Oppressed in the XXI Century," Julian Boal will engage in discussions that explore the nexus between theory and performance...
Persson Hall, Perrson Auditorium
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