Events Calendar
June 3-16, 2012
2012 Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop
Churchill House - Brown University
May 27, 2012
Brown University 244th Commencement
May 9, 2012
Department Colloquium
"To Serve Before the Mast": Recovering the Lost Legacy of Rhode Island's Black Seamen
LaShonda K. Barnett, Independent Scholar
12:00noon-1:00pm
Conference Room - Churchill House
April 30, 2012
Conversations in Africana Writing
Voice and Memory in the Poetic Imagination
A Reading and Dialogue featuring South African Poet Laureate Keorapetse Kgositsile with
Chinua Achebe and Brenda Marie Osbey
4:00pm
George Houston Bass Performing Arts Space - Churchill House
April 17-19, 2012
2012 Africana Film Festival
April 11, 2012
Book Reading and Signing
The African American Theatrical Body: Reception, Performance, and the Stage
Soyica Colbert, Dartmouth College
4:00pm
Brown University Bookstore
April 11, 2012
Department Colloquium
Life After Death: Black Studies in the 21st Century
Soyica Colbert, Dartmouth College
12:00noon-1:00pm
Conference Room - Churchill House
April 4-8, 2012
2012 Black Lavender Experience
George Houston Bass Performing Arts Space - Churchill House
March 16, 2012
Performance
Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber
9:00pm
Fête - 103 Dike Street Providence, Rhode Island
March 16, 2012
Improvisation Workshop
Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber
1:00pm-3:00pm
Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
March 15, 2012
The Art and Craft of Conduction
Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber
8:00pm
Grant Recital Hall
March 15, 2012
Conversations in Africana Music
Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber
4:00pm
George Houston Bass Performing Arts Space - Churchill House
March 14, 2012
Department Colloquium
Diaspora Disavowed: New Directions in Haitian Studies
Régine M. Jean-Charles, Boston College
12:00noon-1:00pm
Conference Room - Churchill House
March 13, 2012
Lecture
Can the Nigerian Project Be Salvaged?
State, Governance and Democratic Development
Richard A. Joseph, John Evans Professor of Political Science
Northwestern University
4:00pm
Joukousky Forum - Watson Institute for International Studies
March 12, 2012
Panel Discussion
Africa and The Politics of Statecraft in the 21st Century
Hamid el-Bashir Ibrahim, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
and
Richard A. Joseph, John Evans Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University
12:00pm
McKinney Conference Room - Watson Institute for International Studies
March 10, 2012
Conversations in Africana Dance
Interdisciplinarity, Collaboration, and Indeterminacy
A Conversation with Bill T. Jones
1:00pm - 2:30pm
George Houston Bass Performing Arts Space - Churchill House
March 7, 2012
Conversations in Africana Film
Modern Black Cinema
A Conversation with Arthur Jafa and Richard Blint
Introduced and moderated by Visiting Professor Greg Tate
5:30pm
George Houston Bass Performing Arts Space - Churchill House
February 28, 2012
The 2012 Debra L. Lee Lecture on Slavery and Justice
Michelle Alexander, Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
6:00pm
Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
February 10-12, 2012
Writing Is Live Festival
June's Blood by Jenna Spencer '14
Directed by Constance Crawford
2/10 @ 5:00pm; 2/11 @ 2:00pm; 2/12 @ 7:00pm
George Houston Bass Performing Arts Space - Churchill House
February 8, 2012
Department Colloquium
Memory, Performance, and Celebration in the Port-au-Prince Cemetery
Katherine Smith, Brown University
12:00noon-1:00pm
Conference Room - Churchill House
February 7, 2012
Book Reading and Signing
Some Sing, Some Cry: A Novel
Ifa Bayeza
4:00pm
Brown University Bookstore
February 1, 2012
The 15th Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture
Whistling Vivaldi and Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us
Claude Steele, I. James Quillen Dean and Professor, School of Education, Stanford University
4:00pm
Pery and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
December 9, 2011
Department of Africana Studies 2011 Holiday Reception
4:00pm
George Houston Bass Performing Arts Space - Churchill House
December 8, 2011
First Reading
Sultane au Grand Marais
An opera set in New Orleans about a Free Black woman, the Spirit of Resistance, and Awakening
Written by Distinguished Visiting Professor Brenda Marie Osbey
Directed by Professor Elmo Terry-Morgan
4:00pm
George Houston Bass Performing Arts Space - Churchill House
December 3-4, 2011
2011 Achebe Colloquium on Africa
8:30am - 5:30pm
Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
December 1, 2011
Panel Discussion
Africana Studies and the Fate of the Humanities
with
Soyica Colbert, Dartmouth College
Carol Boyce Davies, Cornell University
Lawrence P. Jackson, Emory University
R gine Jean-Charles, Boston College
Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar, University of Connecticut
Brenda Marie Osbey, Brown University
4:00pm
Room 305 - Pembroke Hall
Co-sponsored by the Cogut Center for the Humanities
November 9, 2011
Department Colloquium
Igbo Language Studies in the First Decade of the 21st Century: A History of the Igbo Archival Dictionary Project
Ike Achebe, Brown University
12:00noon-1:00pm
Conference Room - Churchill House
October 27-30, 2011
Performance
Sortilégio by Abdias do Nascimento
Directed by Professor Elmo Terry-Morgan
7:00pm
George Houston Bass Performing Arts Space - Churchill House
October 26, 2011
Conversation
Abdias do Nascimento in Context: Politics, Society, and Theatre
with
Professors Anani Dzidzienyo and Keisha-Khan Y. Perry
4:00pm
Lower Level - Churchill House
October 12, 2011
Department Colloquium
Street Stories in the Postcolony: Democracy and the Politics of the Everyday in Africa
Nduka Otiono, Brown University
12:00noon - 1:00pm
Conference Room - Churchill House
September 29, 2011
Lecture
Looking for Josephine
Matthew Guterl, Indiana University
4:00pm
Petteruti Lounge - Stephen F. Robert '62 Campus Center at Faunce House
Co-sponsored by the Department of American Studies
September 26, 2011
Conversations in Africana Writing
Voice and Memory in the Poetic Imagination
A Dialogue with Chinua Achebe, Brenda Marie Osbey, and Gabriel Okara
4:00pm
George Houston Bass Performing Arts Space - Churchill House
September 15, 2011
Conversations in Africana Theatre
The Legacy of Barbara Ann Teer and the National Black Theatre of Harlem, NY: A Portrait of Survival, Longevity, and Vision
with
Shirley Faison, Jacqueline Jeffries, and Sade Lythcott
4:00pm
George Houston Bass Performing Arts Space - Churchill House
September 14, 2011
Department Colloquium
The Future of Black Theatre
Elmo Terry-Morgan, Brown University
12:00noon - 1:00pm
Conference Room - Churchill House
September 8, 2011
Department of Africana Studies 2011 Welcome Reception
4:00pm - 6:00pm
Main Lobby - Churchill House
September 2, 2011
2011 Graduate Student Orientation
2:00pm
Conference Room - Churchill House
2010-2011 Events
Tuesday, April 29, 2011
Book Reading and Signing
Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts
by Women in SNCC
Judy Richardson
5:00pm
Brown Bookstore
Friday, April 15, 2011
Reading Race: A Symposium
9:00am - 5:00pm
Hillel House
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Professor Robin D. G. Kelley Lecture
on his prize-winning book about Thelonious Monk
12 - 2pm
Pembroke Hall Room 305
Friday, April 8, 2011
Performance
Les Excercices Spirituels
by
George E. Lewis, Lawton Wehle Fitt '74 Artist-in-Residence
8:00pm
Martinos Auditorium - Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Sass and Trim: A Dramatic Reading
7:00pm
George Houston Bass Performing Arts Space- Churchill House
Thursday, April 7, 2011
A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and Experimental Music
A Seminar with George E. Lewis, Lawten Wehle Fitt '74 Artist-in-Residence
12:00pm
Africana Studies Conference Room - Churchill House
Wednesday, April 6 - Saturday, April 9, 2011
9th International Conference of the Collegium for African American Research
"Black States of Desire: Dispossession, Circulation, Transformation"
Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7
Monday, April 4, 2011
Black Women in Land Rights Struggles in Columbia and Brazil
A Panel Discussion with Ana Cristina da Silva Caminha and
Libia R. Grueso
Moderated by Prof. Keisha-Khan Y. Perry,
Department of Africana Studies
3:00 - 5:00pm
Joukowsky Forum - Watson Institute for International Studies 
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Reframing Haiti: Art, History and Performativity
Art Exhibition
This exhibition runs through April 20, 2011 and will feature four major Haitian artists in residence: Atis Rezistans–Sculptures of the Grand Rue, Myrlande Constant, Edouard Duval-Carrie and Gabriel Bien-Aime. There will be lectures, workshops and seminars on Haitian art, politics and culture. Reframing Haiti, which includes paintings, sculpture, and Vodou flags, will be at five venues: Pembroke Hall, the Haffenreffer Museum, the Cohen Gallery at the Granoff Center, the Rites and Reason Theater at Churchill House, and Ewing House at Rhode Island School of Design.
This unique ensemble of art from private and public collections
is
a collaboration of Brown University, the Cogut Center for the Humanities, Rhode Island School of Design, and the Waterloo Gallery in Waterloo, Iowa.
For the schedule of events, click here.
Read the review in the Providence Journal.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Before Columbus: Another View
A Panel Discussion featuring George Lamming
5:00pm
George H. Bass Performing Arts Space - Churchill House
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Before Columbus: Another View
A reading of Before Columbus: Another View and FolkThought with George Lamming
7:00pm
George Houston Bass Performing Arts Space - Churchill House
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Book Reading and Signing
The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934 - 1960
with
Lawrence P. Jackson, Emory University
4:00pm
Brown University Bookstore
Friday, February 25, 2011
"Improvisation as a Way of Life: A Symposium"
Curated by George E. Lewis, Lawten Wehle Fitt '74 Artist-in-Residence
10:00am - 5:00pm
Cogut Center for the Humanities - 305 Pembroke Hall
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Race and Genomics Lecture Series
"Race, Class, and Vital Capacity Measurement: Historical Considerations"
Lundy Braun, Royce Family Professor in Teaching Excellence and Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Africana Studies
12:00pm
Science Center - Science Library 3rd Floor
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
2011 Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture
"Pursuing Excellence with Racial Equity: A Social Movement for the 21st Century"
Ronald Ferguson, Harvard University
4:00pm
Sayles Hall
Friday, December 10, 2010
Reading and Book Signing
Empire of Liberty: Power, Desire, and Freedom
Anthony Bogues, Harmon Family Professor of Africana Studies
5:00pm
The Brown Bookstore
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Women of African Descent in Today's Cuba
Tomás Fernández Robaina
Biblioteca Nacional José Martí, Havana, Cuba
In collaboration with the Department of Comparative Literature and CLACS
6:30pm
Watson Institute
Monday, December 6, 2010
African American Buddhism
Public Lecture with William Green, Associate Professor of the Humanities, Tougaloo College
5:30pm
Room 106 - Rhode Island Hall
Monday, December 6, 2010
New Directions in Africana Studies
with Jonathan Fenderson, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
and
Adom Getachew, Yale University
7:00pm
Lower Level - Churchill House
December 3-4, 2010
2010 Achebe Colloquium
The Providence Marriott
Providence, Rhode Island
For schedule and registration click here
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Not Everyone Knows that I'm Actually Black
The Effects of DNA Ancestry Testing on Racial and Ethnic Boundaries, by Wendy Roth of the University of British Columbia
Science Library, Third Floor, 12 pm
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Social Activism and Song Workshop with
Sweet Honey In The Rock
George Houston Bass Performing Arts Space - Churchill House
4:00pm
Registration required at http://tinyurl.com/28lco4u
Presented by FirstWorks with support from Brown University Creative Arts Council
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Public Lecture
Carnival and Grass Roots Arts Organizations in Haiti
George Houston Bass Performing Arts Space - Churchill House
4:00pm
November 4, 2010
Conversations in Africana Writing:
Ama Ata Aidoo: A Celebration and Tribute
4pm - Ghanaian Histories and Contexts: A discussion with Ama Ata Aidoo, Anani Dzidzienyo and Vincent Odamtten
7pm -A Dilemma of a Ghost - A dramatic reading followed by a folkthought discussion
George Houston Bass Performing Arts Space - Churchill House
October 28-November 1, 2010
"En Las Manos de la Muerte" by Alexandra Bernson '12
An exploration of Narco Culture on the USA-Mexico border
Rites and Reason Theatre, 7pm Free, first come, first served
Thursday, October 21, 2010
2010-2011 Race and Genomics Lectures Series
Science, Publics and the Politics of Knowledge: A Panel Discussion
with
Geri Augusto, Brown University
Catherine Bliss, Brown University
Lundy Braun, Brown University
Alondra Nelson, Columbia University
Corey D. B. Walker, Brown University
Cogut Center for the Humanities – Pembroke Hall 305 4-6pm
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Invitational Lecture in the Humanities
“Black Culture Matters: Black Cultural Debates in a Color Blind Nation”
Prof. Tricia Rose
Cogut Center for the Humanities - Pembroke Hall 305
5:30pm
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Black Alumni Reunion Panel
“A New World Odyssey”: 40 Years of Rites and Reason Theatre
with
Benny Sato Ambush ‘73
Donald W. King ‘93
Liz Morgan ‘10
Raffini
Daniel W. Wideman ‘91
Moderated by
Prof. Corey D. B. Walker
George Houston Bass Performing Arts Space – Churchill House
10:00am
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Buried Alive: The Concept of Race in the Biological Sciences and Clinical Medicine – With some Social and Political Consequences of its Surprising, even Vigorous Revitalization
