African Memories: Spanish Colonialism in Morocco and Equatorial Guinea
October 12, 2018
Room #113, Arts & Science
Lydia Cabrera’s Yemayá y Ochún : A Transatlantic Journey
March 16, 2018
Room #113 Arts & Science Bldg.
The Hidden History of Haiti
February 16, 2018
Leadership Auditorium, MU Student Center
Africa in Cuban Modern Dance: Eduardo Rivero
February 15, 2018
Leadership Auditorium, MU Student Center
EVENTS RELATED TO BLACK HISTORY MONTH - War, Peace, & Black Progress
February 15, 2018
The Colombian Pacific in the Poetry of Mary Grueso Romero and Elcina Valencia
February 13, 2018
Stotler Lounge, Memorial Union
Tango negro: The African Roots of Tango
February 2, 2018
Leadership Auditorium, MU Student Center
Los retratos del artista plástico afrocubano
November 13, 2017
Strickland Hall - Room 109
Lecture on Amazonian and Caribbean Brazil
September 22, 2017
Arts and Science #113
Visualizing Abolition Exhibit
April 14, 2017 to May 16, 2017
Ellis Library
College Language Association Conference
April 5, 2017 to April 8, 2017
Stoney Creek Hotel on S. Providence
Focus on Africa
March 1, 2017
Bond Life Science Center 171
Black History Month Documentary Screenings on Afro-Cuban Artists
February 23, 2017
Memorial Union Stotler Lounge 3
Afro-Cuban Artists: A Renaissance
April 27, 2016 to April 30, 2016
"The Struggle of Afro-Cubans for Equality. 19th-20th Centuries"
By Aline Helg, Professor of Latin American History at the University of Geneva, Switzerland
Friday, October 23, 2015
Leadership Auditorium, Room 2501 Student Center
"Trafficking Identities: People, Questions, and Black Authors in 21st Century Cuban Literature"
By Roberto Zurbano, Cuban journalist, essayist, cultural critic, past editor and publisher of the Casa de las Americas publishing house, past vice-president of the Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC).
Friday, October 23, 2015
Leadership Auditorium, Room 2501 Student Center
"Cities, Affect, and Citizenship: The Case of Igiaba Scego"
By Graziella Parati, Paul D. Pagnucci Professor of Italian Language and Literature at Dartmouth College
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Mark Twain room, N206 Memorial Union
MU in Rwanda: Lessons Learned
Friday, April 3, 2015 from 2:00 to 7:00
Student Center, room 2206 A-B
"Racial Democracy in Latin America: Lessons from the Cuban Revolution"
by Alejandro de la Fuente, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, Professor of African and African American Studies and of History, and Director of the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
Friday, February 6, 2015, at 5:30 in the Leadership Auditorium, Room 2501, Student Center
"Literary Discourses in the Spanish- and French-Speaking Caribbean: From Negritude to 'Negrismo' to the Creole"
by Professor Landry-Wilfrid Miampika from the University of Alcalá, Spain
Friday, November 14, 2014, at 4:00 in the Arts and Science Building, room 113
"The Missouri premiere of: Nancy Morejón, Famous Landscapes"
A film produced and directed in Cuba by Dr. Juanamaría Cordones-Cook, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Missouri-Columbia
Friday, April 25, 2014, 6:00 pm, Leadership Auditorium, 2501 MU Student Center
and distinguished guest speakers:
- Dr. Efrain Barradas, University of Florida-Gainesville: "Peñalver, 52: The House, The Sea"
- Dr. Patricia González, Smith College: "Nancy Morejón: Weaving Water Worlds"
"Healing: Rwanda, 20 Years Later"
by Step UP! American Association for Rwandan Women, and Emmanuel Habimana, Rwandan genocide survivor
Friday, April 11, 2014 at 5:00 in Memorial Union North 214-215
"Right, Where Really is the Western Sahara? Saharawi Writer's Strategies of Representation in the Digital Age," by Professor Dorothy Odartey-Wellington from the University of Guelph, Canada
Friday, March 7, 2014, at 4:00 in the Arts and Science Building, room 114
Two-day Event with Afro-Italian Filmmaker Fred Kuwornu
- "African-Americans and the Double Victory: Inside Buffalo (2010)", movie screening and discussion with Afro-Italian Filmmaker Fred Kuwornu, Tuesday, February 25, 2014, at 5:00 in Strickland Hall 105
- "Ethnicity, National Identity, and Multiculturalism in Contemporary Italy: 18 Ius Soli (2012)", movie screening and discussion with Afro-Italian Filmmaker Fred Kuwornu, Wednesday, February 26, 2014, at 3:30 in Tate Hall 215
"The International Context of Cuban Abolition: Masters and Slaves in Felix Tanco's Anti-Slavery Narrative," by Professor Adriana Mendez from the University of Iowa
Friday, October 11, 2013, at 4:00 in the Arts and Science Building, room 113
"Ethnic Differences in African Literatures," by Professor Justo Bolekia from the University of Salamanca, Spain
Wednesday, April 17, 2013, at 4:00 in the Arts and Science Building, room 113
Professor Robaina’s Visit, University of Missouri-Columbia
February 13, 2013
"Are We Moving Forward with the Fight Against Racism in Cuba," by Professor Tomás Fernández Robaina from the National Library of Havana, Cuba
Wednesday, February 13, 2013, at 4:00 in Arts Science 113
Conference: Cultural Bricolage: Artist Books of Cuba’s Ediciones Vigía
November 11-13, 2012
Post-Conference Event: Poetry Reading by Nancy Morejón and Salgado Maranhao,
Wednesday, November 14, 2012, 105 Strickland at 4:00 PM
Nancy Morejón, Cuban Poet Laureate
Salgado Maranhao, Brazilian Poet Laureate
For more information and to see the full program, go to the conference website: http://vigia.missouri.edu/
"The Slave Trade in the Southern Atlantic: Shifting Paradigms" by MU Professor of History Daniel Domingues
Friday, October 26, 2012, at 4:00 in Memorial Union S203
Symposium: Genocide in Rwanda
Thursday, April 26-Saturday, April 28, 2012
Keynote addresses:
Carl Wilkens: “Why I Chose to Stay in Rwanda,” Friday, April 27, 7:00 P.M., Ellis Auditorium (Ellis Library Building)
Canadian Senator Roméo Dallaire: “Are All Humans Human?”, Saturday, April 28, 3:30, Bush Auditorium, Cornell Hall, room 201
Non Profits in the Favela: Rio’s NGOs in Contemporary Brazilian Film: Professor Paul Sneed
Wednesday, March 14, 2012, at 3:30 in Memorial Union S207
Symposium on Slave Narrative and Racial Issues in Cuba
Monday, September 19, 2011 3:30-5:30, Memorial Union N103A
Speakers: Dr. Marlène Marty and Dr. Victorien Lavou from France
Mark Schuller: Poto Mitan: Haitian Women Pillars of the Global Economy
Friday, September 16, 2011
Georgina Herrera: A Twentieth-Century Maroon Symposium
Friday, April 29, 2011
Morning sessions in the Legends room of Myzou Rec Center
Afternoon sessions at the Black Culture Center
Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo: Equatorial Guinea: Culture and Politics
Monday, April 18, 2011 in Arts and Science, 113
Jan Hoffman French: Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil's Northeast
Friday, March 11, 2011 at 3:30, Black Culture Center
Jean-Germain Gros: Anatomy of a Natural Disaster: When the Fury of Nature Meets the Debility of the State
Thursday, March 3, 2011 at 3:30, Black Culture Center
Reyneld Sanon: Housing Rights, Evictions, and the Displaced
Thursday, March 3, 2011 at 3:30, Black Culture Center
Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell: The Company of Heaven
Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 3:30, Black Culture Center
Gina Ulysse : I am a Storm
Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 3:30, Black Culture Center
William Luis: Blacks, Slaves, and Antislavery Narrative: The Emergence of Cuba's National Literature
Tuesday, November 9, 2010 at 3:30 p.m.
Nancy Morejón: Bilingual poetry reading
Thursday, October 14, 2010 at 4:30
Museum of Anthropology
Gloria Rolando Lecture: 1912 Breaking the Silence
Friday, April 9, 2010, 4:00 - 6:00pm
114 Arts & Science building
Lecture sponsored by the MU Afro-Romance Institute, the Ragtag Cinema, and the Sonya Haynes Stone Center at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Doris Lorraine Garraway Lecture: Print, Publics, and the Universal in King Henry Christophe's Haiti
Friday, April 16, 2010 3:30pm
Memorial Union North 201-202 (Mark Twain Room)
Juan Manuel Davies Lecture: Equatorial Guinea Before and After Independence
November 12, 2009
Haitian Vodou, History, and Culture seminar
October 16, 2009
Film Screening and Dialogue with Filmmaker
Eat for This Is My Body (Mange, ceci est mon corps)
October 14 and 15, 2009