Past Events

Thursday, November 5, 2009

W.E.B. Du Bois Speaker Series Cuba in Africa: A View from the Angolan Trenches by Lazaro Bentancourt 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM Memorial Building - Room 110 Lazaro Betancourt was a major with the Interior Ministries' special troops, specifically assigned to protect the Cuban head of state (Fidel Castro). He was the leader of a commando force that traveled with the Cuban leader to many foreign nations including South Africa during the 90s. Previously, he served as an advisor and fought alongside Angolan and Nicaraguan troops between 1986 to 1999. He defected in 1999 while accompanying a Castro delegation to Santo Domingo. View Flyer

Thursday, October 15, 2009

W.E.B. Du Bois Speaker Series "Race in Cuba: Afro-Cubans, African Americans, and the Politics of Revolution, 1959-1961" An analysis of testimonios and oral histories to uncover the ways in which people of color contributed to and challenged the Revolution's claim over racial politics. 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM Memorial 110 The post-1959 Cuban revolutionary government highlighted racial conflicts to undermine counterrevolutionary movements and solicit support from Afro-Cubans. How did the new leadership publicly discuss the problems facing people of color, an issue frequently silenced by Cuba's accepted ideology of racial democracy? Many Afro-Cubans interpreted the new racialized discourse in ways that went beyond official pronouncements. The lecture looks at how people of color contributed to and challenged the new leaderships's clail over racial politics

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Medical Punishment, Medical Crimes: The Sterilization of Black Women at the Mississippi State Penitentiary A lecture on the indiscriminate, nonconsensual, sterilization of Black Women in the Mississippi State Penitentiary (1920s - 1940s). 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM College of Arts & Sciences Gallery, Wesley Center Shobana Shankar (Ph.D. UCLA, researcher and contributing writer for UNICEF) discusses her current research on the regular performance of hysterectomies on women prisoners, listed as medical procedures, conducted at Parchman, the roughly 20,000 acre state penal farm located in the Mississippi Delta from the 1920s to the 1940s. (LECTURE IS CO-SPONSORED BY WOMEN'S AND GENDER STUDIES)

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Africa Peace and Justice Education Tour: Economic Justice Beyond Borders: Debt-Poverty-Migration 12:30 PM University of Miami Room F209 The Africana Studies Program and the Joint Program on Law, Public Policy & Ethics of the University of Miami School of Law & College of Arts & Science, Center for Ethics & Public Service and the American Friends Service Committee host the Africa Peace & Justice Tour entitled: “Economic Justice Beyond Borders: Debt-Poverty-Migration.” We will be discussing U.S. foreign policies toward Africa and Haiti, particularly with regard to debt and poverty and their connection to the migration of Africans and Haitians. This event will be held on Wednesday, April 16, 2008, in the University of Miami Room F209 at 12:30PM. This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. View Flyer

Friday, November 30, 2007

The Pioneers of Black Music Awards Ceremony and Concert 8:00 PM Bank United Center A celebration of Black Music Pioneers Who created music as social commentary A musical expression that supports positive social change to... “LIVE THE DREAM” PROCEEDS TO BENEFIT THE MARTIN LUTHER KING PARADE AND FESTIVITIES COMMITTEE, INC. UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI AFRICANA STUDIES PROGRAM BANK UNITED CENTER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI 1245 Dauer Drive, Coral Gables, Florida FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30TH, 2007 8:00 PM GUEST PERFORMANCE BETTY WRIGHT TIMMY THOMAS CONCERT- ATRIBUTE TO JAMES BROWN View Flyer

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

W.E.B. Du Bois Speaker Series Hip Hop Revolution 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM TBA Dr. Jeffrey O.G, Ogbar Associate Professor & Director, African-American Institute, University of Connecticut

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

W.E.B. Du Bois Speaker Series What's the Color of Blackness 5:00 PM TBA Frieda Ekotto Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan

Thursday, November 1, 2007

The 200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade 6:30 PM Historical Museum of Southern Florida Panel Discussion Historical Museum of Southern Florida The 200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade Thursday, November 1, 6:30 pm Learn how both Great Britain and the United States legally abolished the “trade” in African captives in 1807. Artist/historian Dinizulu Gene Tinnie and a group of scholars explore the forces that shaped the abolition, the continuation of slavery and the slave trade after 1807, and the consequences of these events for the peoples of the Atlantic world today, including the residents of South Florida. Dinizulu Gene Tinnie (Moderator) Dr. Edmund Abaka (University of Miami) Dr. Akin Ogundiran (Florida International University) Dr. Rose Thevenin (Florida Memorial University) Historical Museum of Southern Florida 101 W. Flagler Street Downtown Miami Discounted parking at 50 N.W. 2nd Avenue. Metrorail: Government Center Station. This program is free of charge. For more information: (305) 375-1492 www.hmsf.org

Thursday, October 25, 2007

W.E.B. Du Bois Speaker Series Hip Hop Honeys or Video H*s: Sexual Risk, Sexual Scripting and Images of Women in Hip Hop 4:30 PM Wesley Center, College of Arts and Sciences Dr. Dionne Patricia Stephens Associate Chair, Department of Psychology, F.I.U

Tuesday, November 7, 2006

Affirmative Action and Social Inclusion in Higher Education Presentation by: Dr. J. Michael Turner, Hunter College, New York 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM 3rd Floor Richter Library Conference Room About Dr. J. Michael Turner: J. Michael Turner Ph.D. is the Co-Director of the Global Afro Latino and Caribbean Initiative (GALCI), creative by non-governmental organizations from Latin America, the Caribbean and the United States of America dedicated to correcting the persisting inequities that have had devastating impact on the lives of African descendants in the Americas -- a direct result of more than four hundred years of the enslavement that brought more than 15 million Africans forcibly to the Americas. Created in October 2000 the objectives of GALCI has been to make the lives of more than 150 million African Descendants in Latin America, Central and the Caribbean visible and part of the international dialogue, programmatic agenda of global multilateral organizations and part of public and private policy initiatives of global governments that are home to this vast population.

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Black Identity and Social Movements in the Colombian Pacific Lowlands By: Jean Muteba Rahier 11:00 AM to 12:15 PM Eaton Res. College Room 145 About Jean Muteba Rahier: Jean Muteba Rahier received his Ph.D. from the Université de Paris X, Nanterre, France, in June 1994. He is Associate Professor of anthropology and of African-New World Studies. His areas of scholarly interest include the theoretical orientations in the history of African diaspora anthropology, the ethnography of the African diaspora, blackness and the performance of identity, African diaspora performativity, European colonialism in Central Africa, representations of Africa in films and the African diaspora in Latin America. His geographic areas of expertise are Ecuador, Colombia, the United States and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.