05/05/2009 Kaplan lecture: Brent Edwards
The Kaplan Lecture, "The Alchemy of Tin: The Cultures of Jazz in Downtown New York in the 1970s," will be given by Brent Edwards at UMass-Amherst, Campus Center 904, at 4:30pm on May 5. more>
04/23/2009 Toumani Diabate performance
Toumani Diabate and his orchestra will give a performance at the Fine Arts Center, UMass, at 7:30pm, April 23. more>
04/22/2009 Earth Day celebrations with Toumani Diabate
Kora master Toumani Diabate will help celebrate Earth Day at the Fine Arts Center Plaza at UMass on
Wednesday, April 22, 4:00-7:00pm. more>
04/18/2009 CISA Student Symposium
The Twelfth Annual Student Symposium will take place on Saturday, April 18 in the Neilson Browsing Room (Neilson Library) at Smith College. more>
04/14/2009 Second Annual Eric Schocket Lecture on Class & Culture
For the 2nd Annual Eric Schocket Lecture on Class & Culture, Michael Denning will give a talk entitled "Spectre of Wageless Life," at 4pm, 4/14/2009, in the Main Lecture Hall of Franklin Patterson Hall, Hampshire College. more>
04/06/2009 Donald Carter talk, "Blackness over Europe"
Prof. Donald Carter will give a talk entitled "Blackness over Europe: Meditations on Migrancy, Culture and Belonging,” at 7:30pm, April 6, at the UMass Campus Center, Rm 917. more>
04/06/2009 Jean Pfaelzer talk, "Driven Out"
Prof. Jean Pfaelzer from the University of Delaware will speak at 7pm on April 6th in Fayerweather 115, Amherst College, about her research for her book "Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans."
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04/03/2009 Africans on Africa: Gender, Generation, and Globalization
Two speakers from Senegal will visit as part of a major "Africans on Africa" event, April 3-13, 2009. Aisatta Tall-Sall is a prominent lawyer in Dakar, and Penda Mbow is Associate Professor in History at University Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar. more>
03/09/2009 CLACLS lecture by Henry Geddes
Prof. Henry Geddes in the Dept. of Communication, UMass, will present a talk as part of the The Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies Spring '09 Research Colloquium Series, "From Colonial Encounters to Transnational Media Flows: The Ma more>
03/05/2009 "Managing African Portugal" lecture
Professor Kesha Fikes, from the Dept. of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, will speak on the topic "Managing African Portugal" at 7:30pm, Thursday, March 5, at the UMass Campus Center. more>
03/05/2009 Symposium in honor of Neal Salisbury
The History Department at Smith College is hosting a symposium on "Native American History: Current and Future Directions," March 5-6, in the Neilson Library Browsing Room. more>
02/26/2009 Writing (out of) Place lecture
Writing (out of) Place, a talk by Adriana Lisboa,
award-winning Brazilian novelist, translator, and blogger, Feb. 26, 5:00 p.m. at Seelye Hall 201,
Smith College.
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02/25/2009 Index of the Disappeared lecture
A Calico Films lecture, "Index of the Disappeared,"
with guests Chitra Ganesh and Mariam Ghani will take place at Franklin Patterson Hall, Hampshire College at 4:30pm, February 25. more>
02/24/2009 Kwame Dawes lecture
Poet, scholar, and activist Kwame Dawes will give a lecture, "Reggae and History: How Reggae Shaped the Way We Understand History," on Tuesday, 2/24, at 7:30pm in the Augusta Savage Gallery, New Africa House, UMass. more>
02/24/2009 Ronald Fernandez lecture
Dr. Ronald Fernandez, Professor of Sociology and former Director of the Center for Caribbean and Latin American Studies at Central Connecticut State U, will give a talk, "Puerto Rican Nationalism and the Legacies of Albizu Campos," at Hampshire College. more>
12/13/2008 Visions of Freedom
A Roundtable on African American Visual Art of the 1960s & 1970s. Springfield Museum’s Davis Auditorium, Saturday, December 13, 2008, at 1pm. more>
