Natalia Molina is the author of two prize-winning books: How Race is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts and Fit to be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-140.
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Sciences Library Science Center
US merchants brought slaves not just to the Caribbean and the North American colonies in the 18th century, but also to labor in South America. American merchants (almost all Rhode Islanders) played a significant role in the trade of slaves from Africa to the Río de la Plata in Argentina and Bolivia. While most enslaved Africans arrived in Buenos Aires and Montevideo via Brazil, American traders brought more slaves directly from Africa to the Río de la Plata than any other nation in this period. On Thursday March 9, 2017 at 5:30 pm, the Newport Historical Society will host Alex Borucki for The Vernons of Newport in the River of Silver: US Slave Trading in Buenos Aires and Montevideo, 1795-1809. This lecture examines the trading operations of the Vernons of Newport in the Río de la Plata region (The River of Silver) in today’s Argentina and Uruguay, as a window into the slave routes organized by US merchants supplying Spanish Buenos Aires and Montevideo in the 1790s and 1800s. Alex Borucki is Associate Professor of History at the University of California Irvine. He is the author of From Shipmates to Soldiers: Emerging Black Identities in the Río de la Plata (University of New Mexico Press, 2015) and has published numerous articles on the slave trade and the African Diaspora. Alex is currently working on an NEH funded project, the Final Passages: the Intra-American Slave Trade Database, which will document individual shipments that transferred enslaved people between territories in the Americas.
5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Newport Historical Society Resource Center, 82 Touro Street, Newport, RI
POLICY & PINOT, co-presented with RI Public Radio: a timely conversation series on vital issues facing our state. Mayor Jorge Elorza and State Rep. John Edwards join a panel discussion on “sanctuary cities,” defining what a sanctuary city is, how the definition varies in different cities, and what the risks may be under the new administration. The conversation will be moderated by John Dankosky, Editor of the New England News Collaborative.
5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Providence Athenaeum, 251 Benefit St
PSTC is proud to present Leah VanWey, Professor of Sociology, Brown University, who will be speaking as part of the Spring Colloquia Series.
12pm – 1pm Mencoff Hall Seminar Room
68 Waterman Street
Presentation by Professor Brad Epps from Cambridge University, UK. Conducted in Spanish. Invasión (1969), una de las películas de culto más celebradas de la historia del cine argentino, oscila entre el cosmopolitismo y el criollismo, la voluntad estética y la especulación política. Según Jorge Luis Borges, coautor del guión (con Adolfo Bioy Casares): “Invasión es la leyenda de una ciudad, imaginaria o real, sitiada por fuertes enemigos y defendida por unos pocos hombres, que acaso no son héroes. Luchan hasta el fin, sin sospechar que su batalla es infinita”. Según Hugo Santiago, el director: la película relata “una historia cerrada que, gracias a . . . la invención fantástica y al estilo, funciona como un objeto que se pone a girar solo” pero que también se nutre de la idea de una incursión por una fuerza imperialista. En esta charla, se examinará, a través de una obra maestra del quehacer cinematográfico latinoamericano, algunos de los cruces y conflictos entre la experimentación artística, marcada por la elipsis, el enigma y la recursividad, y la crítica ideológica, marcada por la conspiración, la resistencia y la rebelión.
9:00 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. Rochambeau Music Room, 84 Prospect Street.
Talk by Professor Brad Epps from Cambridge University, UK. Conducted in Spanish.
5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Rochambeau Music Room, 84 Prospect Street.
Óscar Martínez, an award-winning journalist, will discuss the pressing issues surrounding Central American immigration. From the civil wars of the late 20th century to the continuing violence of the present day, northern Central America has been a region that expels its very own people. Largely because of this fact, migration is a phenomenon that shapes these societies. To flee from the bloody situations that they are experiencing, many migrants have to face a journey that is equally terrible.
Óscar Martínez writes for ElFaro.net, the first online newspaper in Latin America. The original edition of his book Los migrantes que no importan was published in 2010 by Icaria and El Faro, with a second edition by Mexico’s sur+ Ediciones in 2012. Martínez is currently writing chronicles and articles for El Faro’s project, Sala Negra, investigating gang violence in Latin America. In 2008, Martínez won the Fernando Benítez National Journalism Prize in Mexico, and in 2009, he was awarded the Human Rights Prize at the José Simeón Cañas Central American University in El Salvador.
5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. CGIS South, S-250, 1730 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA
This will be a great discussion series!! Hoping to have great attendance, and one that reflects the racial and ethnic diversity of the Caribbean. Discussions and dates below and in poster: Wednesday, March 8: Race, Class, Nationality Wednesday, March 15: Desirability Politics & Aesthetics of Beauty Wednesday, March 22: Hegemonic & Toxic Constructs All will take place in Wilson 102 from 5-7 pm.
Wilson 102
Guadalupe García (Tulane University), John Carter Brown Library Associates Fellow "City of Light and Shadow: Reading and Mapping Havana's Atlantic Geographies"
4pm – 5pm Macmillan Reading Room
Join us for a colloquium and roundtable discussion with participants including Linda Báez Rubí (Berlin/UNAM Mexico), Byron Hamann (Ohio State University), Andrew Laird (Brown University), Jeffrey Muller (Brown University) and Ken Ward (John Carter Brown Library). The first half of the program (3:00-4:30) will take place in the conference room of the JCB. The second half of the program (4:45-6:30), including a show & tell, will take place in the MacMillan Reading Room.
3pm – 6:30pm MacMillan Reading Room.
Talk by Guillermo Wilde (Sarmiento Fellow)
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Brown University Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies and Sock & Buskin present their first show of the spring semester 2017. In The Heights conceived by Lin-Manuel Miranda (the man behind the Hamilton phenomenon) runs March 2 through 12 in Stuart Theatre on the main campus at Brown University. In The Heights tells the universal story of a vibrant Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican community in New York City’s Washington Heights neighborhood—a place where the coffee from the bodega is light and sweet, the windows are always open, and the streets explode with the songs and rhythms of three generations. It’s a community on the brink of change, full of hopes, dreams, and pressures, where the biggest struggles can be deciding which traditions you take with you, and which ones you leave behind. In The Heights is the winner of the 2008 Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Score, Best Choreography, and Best Orchestrations.
Stuart Theatre
Brown University Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies and Sock & Buskin present their first show of the spring semester 2017. In The Heights conceived by Lin-Manuel Miranda (the man behind the Hamilton phenomenon) runs March 2 through 12 in Stuart Theatre on the main campus at Brown University. In The Heights tells the universal story of a vibrant Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican community in New York City’s Washington Heights neighborhood—a place where the coffee from the bodega is light and sweet, the windows are always open, and the streets explode with the songs and rhythms of three generations. It’s a community on the brink of change, full of hopes, dreams, and pressures, where the biggest struggles can be deciding which traditions you take with you, and which ones you leave behind. In The Heights is the winner of the 2008 Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Score, Best Choreography, and Best Orchestrations.
Stuart Theatre
Africana Studies / Rites and Reason Theatre at Brown 155 Angell St, Providence, Rhode Island 02912
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220 Elmwood Avenue
The 17th Annual Professor John Howard Birss, Jr. Memorial Lecture Series and Library Exhibition commemorates the 50th anniversary of "One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel García Márquez. Maria Helena Rueda, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Smith College, will deliver the keynote lecture. The library exhibition, “Gabriel García Márquez and ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude,’” is open daily through March 31 during the library's operating hours. Items are on display courtesy of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, Redwood Library and others.
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Mary Tefft White Cultural Center, Roger Williams University Library, 1 Old Ferry Road, Bristol, RI
Talk by Marcelo Lotufo (Cogut Dissertation Fellow)
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Have you ever been walking to class and wished you were in the Carribean celebrating Carnaval instead? While we can't book your flights, we can bring Carnaval to Brown. Join the coro hosted by Domincan Students @ Brown on Feb 25th for a night fullied with delicious food, good music, sexy people, and amazing performances! Come dressed in formal attire, be ready to spend the first part of event taking pictures at our back drop with the most Dominican props we could think of, playing domino (probably the most popular game on the island), and admiring Dominican art displayed around the room. After dinner and performances, take some time to get ready for our After-party which will follow our event from 10:30pm-2:00am. We look forward to seeing you all there!
Sayles Hall at Brown University
Please join us for our 20th anniversary kick off reception, taking place this Friday, February 24th at 6PM. It will be a magical night, including live music, a preview of what's to come in this anniversary season, good food, drink and of course, good company. ----- Quiero invitarle a una recepción para iniciar la celebración de nuestro vigésimo aniversario, la cual será este viernes 24 de febrero a las 6PM. Será una noche mágica, con música en vivo, muestras de lo que estaremos presentando en esta temporada de aniversario, buena comida y bebida y, por supuesto, buena compañía.
6pm – 9pm ECAS Theater, 57 Parkis Ave, Providence, Rhode Island 02907
Kris Manjapra, Tufts University
3pm – 4:30pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Learn more about Un Día Sin Inmigrantes on May 1 by joining us on Thursday, February 23rd at 9 PM EST. We'll give you information about the general strike, answer questions, and give you ways to bring the strike to your community. Obtenga más información sobre Un Día Sin Inmigrantes el 1 de mayo. Únase a nosotros el jueves 23 de febrero a las 9 PM EST. Le daremos información sobre la huelga, responderemos a las preguntas y le daremos maneras de llevar la huelga a su comunidad.
9pm – 10pm
The Brazil Initiative's Spring Film Series presents a selection of classic and contemporary films straight out of "another Brazil": the vast and rich world of the country's backlands. This "magical and moving" first feature, somewhere between ethnography and reverie, tells the story of Bastú, an old woman in the arid north of Minas Gerais set adrift after the death of her husband. View a trailer here.
7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Juokowsky Forum
As part of the 17th Annual Professor John Howard Birss, Jr. Memorial Lecture Series and Library Exhibition, “Gabriel García Márquez and ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’” commemorates the 50th anniversary of the publication of his major work of literature. The exhibition is open daily through March 31 during the library's operating hours. Items are on display courtesy of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, Redwood Library and others.
Roger Williams University Library, 1 Old Ferry Road, Bristol, RI