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Wednesday, April 14 - Sunday, April 18, 2010
Africana Film Festival

Thursday, April 8 - Sunday, April 11, 2010
The Black Lavender Experience

Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Public Lecture
Muslims, Islam(s), Race and Racial Agnosia in America
Sherman A. Jackson, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Visiting Professor of Law and Professor of Afro-American Studies, University of Michigan.
4:00pm
Lower Level - Salomon Center for Teaching


This event is co-sponsored by the Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life and the Muslim Student Association.

Friday, November 20, 2009
Public Lecture
Critical Thought and the Humanities Today

Hortense J. Spillers, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor, Vanderbilt University:
“Airing Dirty Laundry: African-American Critique and Natal Community”

and

Ronald A.T. Judy, Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh:
“From Negro to African and Back, on the Way to Radical Humanism”

Pembroke Hall 305
4:00 - 6:00pm

This event is part of a series sponsored by the Critical Global Humanities Initiative, a collaborative research and teaching initiative of the Cogut Center for the Humanities, Department of Africana Studies, Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, and International Affairs.

Friday, November 13, 2009
Transnational Feminism & The Black Diaspora Symposium

Hosted by Professor Keisha-Khan Perry
The Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer St.
9:00am - 5:00pm

Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Welcoming Professor Chinua Achebe
De Ciccio Family Auditorium - Salomon Center for Teaching
4:00pm

Thursday, October 22 - Sunday November 1, 2009
RPM PlayLab: Directed Readings of Undergraduate Plays

All performances take place at Rites and Reason Theatre, Churchill House

Saturday, October 24, 7:00pm "Out of Bounds"
by Isissa Komada-John, '10, Directed by Ricky Oliver, MFA '12

Sunday, October 25, 3:00pm "No Comment"
by Kathleen Braine, '12, Directed by Talya Klein, MFA '12

Friday, October 30, 7:00pm "Sore"
by Janine Heath, '10, Directed by Kristan Seemel, MFA '11

Saturday, October 31, 7:00pm "Mask Dances"
by Frances Choi, '11, Directed by Connie Crawford

Sunday, November 1, 3:00pm "Skin Deep"
by Liz Morgan, '10, Directed by Jing Xu, '10

Monday, October 19, 2009
Theatre at Brown Panel: Art as Response to Genocide

Co-produced by TAPS/Sock & Buskin and the MFA Directing and Acting Programs at Trinity Repertory Company

Friday, October 9 - Saturday, October 10, 2009
4X4. 4 plays by 4 playwrights

Featuring the work of 2nd year MFA Playwrights and including Why I Don't Want To Go To Yoga Class With You by Mallery Avidon, Just a Game, by Mia Chung, Four Square by Jackie Sibblies and Home is Another Plane by Joe Waechter.
Rites and Reason Theatre, Churchill House
8:00pm
This festival is co-sponsored by the Creative Arts Council
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Public Lecture
Re-inscribing the Colonial Dilemma in a Conscript of Global Modernity: CLR James and Moby-Dick

Donald Pease, Avalon Foundation Chair of the Humanities and Professor of English, Dartmouth College
Pembroke Hall 305
5:30pm - 7:00pm
This lecture is part of a series sponsored by the Critical Global Humanities Initiative, a collaboration of the Cogut Center for the Humanities, Department of Africana Studies, Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, and International Affairs.

Friday, October 2, 2009
Forum
Arts, Culture, and The Soul of a City

Prof. Donald King, Visiting Lecturer of Africana Studies, Brown University and 2009 Recipient of the John Hope Alumni Award for Public Service presented by the Brown Alumni Association and Howard R. Swearer Center for Public Service
Rites and Reason Theatre, 155 Angell St.
4:00pm - 5:30pm
This forum is co-sponsored by the Howard R. Swearer Center for Public Service, the Department of Africana Studies and the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America.