Africana Studies
North Academic Building
85 Mission Park Drive
Williams College
Williamstown, MA 01267
Phone: (413) 597-2242
Fax: (413) 597-4222

Chair:
Prof. Shanti M. Singham
ssingham@williams.edu

Administrative Assistant:
Lucy Gardner Carson
Lucy.G.Carson@williams.edu

2009-10 EVENTS & CONFERENCES

All events are held at Williams College, and are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.

OCTOBER 2009

10/30
Public performance by Roger Bonair-Agard, Trinidadian poet
"Masquerade: Calypso and Home"
8:00 p.m.
Mainstage, '62 Center for Theatre and Dance

Early 1980s Trinidad: Midnight Robber meets Michael Jackson, soca music meets first dances and fist fights. Carnival, football, family, and a bottle of rum. Masquerade: Calypso and Home is a solo performance that traces with stunning, vibrant immediacy a journey both personal and political. Bonair-Agard weaves living, breathing tapestries out of notions of home and voluntary exile, tenderly unmasking family secrets, his Caribbean adolescence, and life as an immigrant in America. Co-sponsored by the Multicultural Center and the Africana Studies Program.

10/22
Africana Studies Open House and Pizza Party
4:00-6:00 p.m.
North Academic Building Rm 241

All are warmly invited to an Open House with pizza and soft drinks hosted by the Africana Studies Program--not just for concentrators and potential concentrators but also for anyone interested in learning more about Africana Studies at Williams.

SEPTEMBER 2009

9/24
Lecture by Carlos Moore
7:00 p.m.
Paresky Center, L02 (lower level)

An ethnologist and political scientist with two doctorates from the prestigious University of Paris-7, France, Dr. Carlos Moore is an expert on the impact of race and ethnicity on domestic politics and inter-state affairs, and a leader in the ongoing global discussion on the topic of race, particularly race in Latin America. His 2008 book Pichón: Race and Revolution in Castro’s Cuba, A Memoir recounts his life of devastating poverty, racism, and his fight for justice; the book traces his imprisonment and eventual exile for speaking out against Fidel Castro and his return to Cuba 30 years later. His other books include A África que Incomoda; Racismo e Sociedade; Castro, the Blacks, and Africa; Fela: This Bitch of a Life; and Cette Putain de Vie. Moore is currently at work on Race: The Last Frontier of Hatred, which summarizes his three decades of research, conducted around the world, on the impact of race on society.

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