Hofstra University Joint Calendar of Events 2015-2016 Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) & African Studies
SPRING 2016 Thursday, February 4 11:10-12:05 MONROE 142 Irene Silverblatt on “Modern Inquisitions”. She is Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Latin American Studies at Duke University, and studies how race-thinking and gender relations were integral to the making of the modern Western world, as well as how historical memory has shaped feelings of national belonging and demands for universal rights. These interests are both historical and contemporary, and have taken Silverblatt to the Inca Empire, the colonial Andes, and contemporary Central and Eastern Europe. Her goal has been to explore the profound transformations in social identities, political sensibilities, and categories of humanness. She has studied the Spanish Inquisition as a modern institution, as well as the ways in which gender constructed power relations in Inca and Colonial Peru. These concerns about the cultural expressions of power, combined with an interest in the politics of memory and its relation to art, guide her current project, focused on Central and Eastern Europe. She explores the ways in which historical memory –more specifically the holocaust— plays a role in the transformation of national ideologies, and in the conceptualization of transnational human rights. She is the author of Modern Inquisitions: Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World; Moon, Sun, and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru; and, more recently, Harvest of Blossoms: Poetry of a Life Cut Short, a collection of the poetry by her cousin, Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger, who died in an SS labor camp in 1942. Event co-sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Honors College, Religion Department, Jewish Studies, and Women’s Studies.
Thursday, February 18 4:30-5:55p.m. Leo Guthart Cultural Center Theater Lewis R. Gordon on “Afro-Judaism.” He is Professor of Philosophy and Africana Studies, with affiliations in Asian and Asian American Studies, Caribbean and Latino/a Studies, and Judaic Studies, at the University of Connecticut-Storrs. He is the author of several influential monographs, including Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism (1999); Fanon and the Crisis of European Man (1995); Her Majesty’s Other Children (1997); Existentia Africana (2000); Disciplinary Decadence (2006); An Introduction to Africana Philosophy (2008); and, with Jane Anna Gordon, Of Divine Warning:
1
Reading Disaster in the Modern Age (2009); Fanon: A Critical Reader (1996); Existence in Black (1997); A Companion to African-American Studies (2006); and Not Only the Master’s Tools (2006). He also participates in a variety of public forums, including Truthout.org. His most recent book is: What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought (2015). He co-edits the book series Global Critical Caribbean Thought. Event co-sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies, African Studies, Jewish Studies, Department of Religion, Department of Philosophy, Honors College, and Dean of Students Office.
Sunday, February 21 3:00p.m. John Adams Playhouse Black History Month Concert: Songs of Resistance. Protest, Music and Dance from Around the World Co-sponsored by African Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Hofstra Cultural Center, and the D’Addario Foundation.
Tuesday, February 23 4.30-5-45p.m. Breslin 029 Poet, essayist and translator Jeannette L. Clariond. A Lecture: “Translating American Poetry into Spanish” and a Bilingual Poetry Reading of her work. She is a Mexican poet, essayist and translator, who has devoted a great deal of her professional career to the study of Mexico’s precolonial Religion and Philosophy. Books published include: Mujer dando la espalda, National Poetry Award Ramón López Velarde (1991); Desierta memoria, National Poetry Award Efraín Huerta (1996); Todo antes de la noche, Poetry Award Gonzalo Rojas (2001); Cinco visiones, in coedition with Gonzalo Rojas; Astillada claridad, as an award to Editorial Achievement, by Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (2014). Along with Harold Bloom, she published La escuela de Wallace Stevens, un perfil de la poesía estadounidense contemporánea (2011). She received the Rockefeller Foundation-Conaculta Scholarship for her translation of Zodíaco negro, by Charles Wright. For her poetic work and contribution to translation and culture, she was granted the Premio Juan de Mairena, by the Universidad de Guadalajara (2014), and the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León honored her with the Editorial Achievement Award and published her last book of poems, Astillada claridad. She has translated W.S. Merwin, Anne Carson, Primo Levi, Alda Merini, and Charles Wright. In 2003 she founded the publisher Vaso Roto Ediciones. Some of her books have been translated to English, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Greek, Italian, Bulgarian, and Arabic. Co-sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.
Wednesday, March 9 11:15-12:40p.m. Leo Guthart Cultural Center Theater
2
Edward E. Baptist (Cornell University) will present his recent book, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism. He works on the history of the 19th-century United States, and the enslavement of African Americans in the South. The expansion of slavery in the United States between the writing of the Constitution in 1787 and the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 had enormous consequences for all Americans, indeed, the expansion shaped many elements of the modern world that we now live in, both inside and outside the borders of the United States. This book explores the experience of the slave trades and forced migrations that drove expansion, the systems of labor that emerged, and the economic, political, and cultural consequences for women, men and children. Co-sponsored by Hofstra Cultural Center, African Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Department of Anthropology.
Thursday, April 7 2:20-3:45p.m. Roosevelt Hall 112 Eduardo González Viaña will present on “Crossing Borders”. Peruvian-born, Eduardo González Viaña depicts in her writing powerful images of immigrants in the United States as they face fierce challenges adapting to life on the other side of the border. He is an Emeritus professor at Western Oregon University, and a member of the Peruvian and North American Academies of Spanish Language, and has published more than forty books. His novel El corrido de Dante (Arte Público Press, 2007) has been translated to seven different languages, and appeared in English as Dante’s Ballad. His book Vallejo en los infiernos is the first biographical novel written about the life of Peruvian poet César Vallejo, one of the most influential poets of the twentieth-century in any language. It has been translated into English as César Vallejo’s Season in Hell. Co-sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.
Tuesday, April 12 2:20 – 3:45pm Leo Guthart Cultural Center Theater Equal Pay Day. CHORE WARS! Gender Equality Comes Home This forum, on work-family balance challenges and solutions, is part of the 10th annual commemoration of the nationwide Equal Pay Daym, with speakers introduced by Provost Gail Simmons. Trillium Fox, Talent Development Principal at CA Technologies, a major Long Island employer ranked in 2015 among the 100 Best Places To Work nationwide; Dr. Linda Houser of Widener University, author of major research studies on the employment and family impacts of recent paid leave policies; and Michael Elsas, founder and Director of the Bronx-based Cooperative Home Care Associates, the largest worker-run cooperative in the US, with over 2,000 home care workers. Organized by the Labor Studies Program, in collaboration with Women’s Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Hofstra Cultural Center.
3
Wednesday, April 20 4:30-5:55 Breslin Hall 105 Warren Bratter will present on “So far from the Middle East, so close to the Americas: A comparative examination of Middle Eastern immigration to the United States and to the Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking Americas,” with introductions by Bárbara González. Sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Fall 2015 Monday, September 21 Kirsty Hooper (University of Warwick, U.K.) “Genealogy, Mobility and Family History in the Anglo-Hispanic Atlantic” Antonio Agacio. Jesusa Alfau de Solalinde. James Hooper. Three lives intersected by the Atlantic and by the shifting relations between the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Anglophone and Hispanophone worlds. Three lives with varying visibility in the official records that track individual journeys across national, imperial, and linguistic borders. Three lives whose resonances are not to be found in the published works of scholars, but in the ephemeral, digital world of newspaper archives, randomly digitized manuscripts, and family historians. Locating its inquiry in the specific routes and encounters of the Anglo-Hispanic Atlantic, this presentation asks to what extent the booming, largely digital, world of family history can model new modes of inquiry for cultural scholars seeking to understand the lives and works of those whose place in the canon or the archive is fragile, contested, or even non-existent. Sponsored by LACS. Leo Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library, 2:55-4:20p.m
Friday, September 25 Earthbeat! Join us for a performance of traditional and original dances from America and around the world, with professional dance and music company The Vanaver Caravan. The program includes French Canadian and Irish step dance; Appalachian clogging; West African harvest dance; South African gumboot dance; Chinese ribbon dance; Sicilian tarantella; dances from Bulgaria, India, Brazil, Israel, Armenia and Spain; Kurdish/Turkish dance; original stick dances; body percussion; and stomp dances. Sponsored by the Hofstra Cultural Center and the Department of Drama and Dance. John Cranford Adams Playhouse, 2:15-4:00p.m.
Wednesday, September 30 Heritage Month Keynote and Reception Series: Latino/Hispanic Heritage Month Join the Hofstra community as we celebrate Latino/Hispanic Heritage Month. The reception will feature a keynote speaker and student performances. Refreshments will be served. Sponsored by Intercultural Engagement & Inclusion
4
Plaza Rooms, Mack Student Center, 11:15-12:40p.m.
Wednesday, October 14 Panel discussion: Immigration and New York’s Future: 50 Years after a Landmark Law As the Presidential campaign season heats up, immigration is today a major topic of debate. A half-century ago, the Civil Rights Movement won passage of the 1965 Immigration Act, overturning the US ethnocentric national admissions quotas. Since then, Asian and Latin American newcomers have dominated migration flows, dramatically reshaping the country’s population. Nowhere is this more evident than in New York City. How has this affected local jobs, businesses, and immigrants lives? We invite you to a forum on these questions and on major immigration policy reforms, with CUNY Prof. Tarry Hum, author of Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood, and Walter Barrientos, coordinator of Make the Road New York. Co-sponsored by the Hofstra Cultural Center, Labor Studies, and LACS. Leo Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library, 4:30-6:00
Wednesday, October 21 Roger Kittleson (Williams College) “Making Men for Brazil's Beautiful Game: Masculinity, Race, and Soccer, 1950-78” As Brazilian officials sought to modernize their national game in the mid-20th century, they debated what it meant to have the nation represented by a largely Afrodescendent group of players. Their attempts to resolve this question involved the latest sports science, as well as changing notions of race and masculinity in Brazil. Individual players met these projects with assertions of their own rights, their own expertise, and their own dignity. In the process, they contested understandings of what it meant to be a man of color in modernizing Brazil. Sponsored by LACS. Leo Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library, 2:55-4:20p.m.
Friday, October 23 The NOAH (New Opportunities at Hofstra) program is pleased to extend an invitation to all members of the Hofstra community to attend its 50th Anniversary celebration. In order to commemorate its successes and proud tradition, there will be a fundraising banquet dinner, and a keynote address by Dr. Bernice A. King, daughter of Coretta Scott King and the Nobel Peace Prize winner and Civil Rights leader Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This occasion also marks the 50th Anniversary of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech at Hofstra University. Dr. Bernice King will be presented the Hofstra University Presidential Medal. Since its inception in 1964, the NOAH Program has provided highly motivated students from underrepresented populations access to higher education, academic, financial, and social support resources. All proceeds from the banquet will go to scholarships so that NOAH may continue its mission. Co-sponsored by the African Studies Program. Lecture at 12:00noon, John Cranford Adams Playhouse; Reception and dinner at 6:00p.m, Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center
5
Wednesday, October 28 The Center for Civic Engagement and the Latin America and Caribbean Studies Program invite you to the Day of Dialogue discussion: “The War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony… P-3s or P-5: Public Private Partnerships . . . for the Plunder of Puerto Rico?” Nelson Denis, attorney, writer, film director, and former New York State Assemblyman who represented New York State’s 68th Assembly district. He will examine the current economic and political crisis in Puerto Rico within the context of the complex colonial relationship between the island and the United States, and discuss his latest book The War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony. Leo Guthart Cultural Center Theater, 2:55-4:20p.m.
Thursday, November 5 A one-day Symposium: Cuban Popular Music and Its Diaspora Looking beyond the traditional repertoire best exemplified by the much-praised film Buena Vista Social Club, this symposium will convene scholars, DJs, and performers to discuss popular genres such as salsa, hip-hop, and timba, both in the islan and abroad. The sessions will examine music in the context of transnational movements in the Caribbean, the US and the international scene, and will look at the kind of musical and cultural relations that happen alongside, behind, and in spite of politics. The event will feature a dance and music workshop, a musical performance by the New York-based formation Global Rhythms, and a keynote speech by Dr. Joaquín Borges-Triana, Havana-based scholar and music critic, and author of several books on Cuban alternative popular music. Co-sponsored by the Hofstra Cultural Center, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and LACS.
Wednesday, November 11 RadioAmbulante, the art and soul of storytelling in the Americas, featuring the Founders of the Radio Ambulante project: Daniel Alarcón, Executive Producer, whose books include War by Candlelight (2005), and Lost City Radio (2007), and his most recent novel, At Night We Walk in Circles, was a finalist for the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award. He is a professor of Broadcast at the Columbia University School of Journalism in New York. Carolina Guerrero, Executive Director, and promoter for cultural and social projects, she has designed and overseen festivals, art exhibits, teaching workshops, and fundraising events. Co-sponsored by The Department of Radio, Television, Film, and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program. Breslin Hall 100 / 2:55-4:30p.m.
Wednesday, November 18 Fiesta/Celebrazione/Festa/Festlichkeit/Party… The European Studies Program and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program are happy to be co-sponsoring a party for new and continuing international students and faculty, including those from Europe and Latin America, Irish Studies, and African Studies, as well as for any other students who are interested in studying about, or traveling to, these regions. Join us for good
6
music, good food, and lively conversation! 246 East Library Wing / 6-8p.m.
Thursday, November 19 The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the European Studies Program, and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program jointly present a Poetry Reading and Musical Performance, by acclaimed poets Elvira Sastre and Adriana Moragues. Cultural Center Theater / 2:20-3:45pm
Tuesday, December 1 A presentation/workshop by Mickey Davidson, as part of a course on The American Experience and Africanist Dance Practices, organized by Dyane Harvey-Salaam, and sponsored by the African Studies Program. 209 Lawrence Herbert School of Communications / 11:10 to 12:35p.m.
7