Caribbean Heritage Week 2007

March 5th, 5:00-5:45 pm
Reception and Book Signing
Books will be available for sale and light refreshments will be served
Third World Center

March 5th, 6:00-7:00 pm
“Caribbean Heritage Week Convocation”
Jamaica Kincaid, Author and Visiting Professor at Harvard University
Reading from 'Journals & Other Documents on the Life & Voyages of Christopher Columbus: Translated & Edited by Samuel Eliot Morison'
Salomon 101
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March 6th, 6:00-7:00 pm
Lecture: “Dominican/Haitian Border Issues”
Dr. Marc Prou, Visiting Associate Professor
Third World Center Formal Lounge
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March 7th, 6:00-8:00 pm
Student Forum: “How Black is Black?”
Hosted by Jamal Shipman’07
Smith Buonanno 106
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March 8th, 6:30-8:30 pm
"Beyond Coloniality?: Puerto Rico and Martinique"
Professor Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, University of Pennsylvania
Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street
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March 9th, 4:00-6:00 pm
“Dominoes Game Afternoon”
Caribbean Heritage Week Steering Committee
Arnold Lounge
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March 9th, 10:00 pm-2:00 am
Party:“Chocolat”
Haitian Student Association
Location TBA
Contact Ester_Dorzin@brown.edu
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March 10th, 10:00 pm-2:00 am
“SOCA Party!”
Students of Caribbean Ancestry
Harambee Lounge
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March 11th, 6:00-8:00 pm
“Gospel Fest”
Lukendy Benjamin, First Haitian Baptist Church (Dorchester, MA)
Imani Jubilee
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March 12th, 6:00-8:00 pm
"Nationalism as a Double-Edged Sword: United States, Puerto Rican
Islanders and mainland-Puerto Ricans"
Professor Amílcar Barreto, Northeastern University
Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street
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Please contact Fedna_Jacquet@brown.edu for more information

THANK YOU to the departments and organizations who sponsored these events—Language Studies, Dean of the College, Institutional Diversity, MCM, English Dept., Center for Latin American Studies, Sarah Doyle Women’s Center, Africana Studies, Campus Life & Student Services, Third World Center

Many thanks and much appreciation go to—Third World Center, Dean Karen McLaurin-Chesson, Dean Takesue, Jennifer Soroko, Anne Marie Ponte, Christopher Strickland’10, Candace Tannis’08, Elizabeth Morgan’10, Danielle Dunlap’10, Ian Allen’10, Nikkisha Smith’10, Nicole Afupe’10, Carey Turnquest’07, Sonia Balaram’10, Esther Dorzin’07, Anna Darby’10

Special thanks to President Ruth Simmons