Craig Steven Wilder: The Matriculating Indian & the Uneducable Negro: Race, Slavery, & American Colleges

Lecture & Book Signing

Thursday, April 24th, 2014
5:30pm
Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall
194 Meeting Street

Free and Open to the Public

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From Guinea Bissau, the visionary director Flora Gomes brings us his most recent film, The Children’s Republic, starring American actor Danny Glover and Melanie de Vales Rafael. In this fable, children left to their own devices seek to replace the corrupt political system of the adults who abandoned them. The tenuous peace of this new Children’s Republic is threatened, however, with the arrival of traumatized child soldiers. Flora Gomes studied film in 1972 at the Cuban Institute of Arts and Cinematography. His works have been selected at the Cannes and Venice festivals.

Internationally acclaimed Nigerian filmmaker Tunde Kelani’s latest feature film is adapted from a novel and partially crowd-funded through social media. Dazzling Mirage tells the story of a talented young sickle-cell sufferer, played by Lala Akindoju, who struggles to overcome social stigma, prejudice, and her own low self-esteem to achieve success at work and home. Tunde Kelani studied at the London International Film School and is an advocate of alternative technologies and public access. He now manages Mainframe Film & Television Productions, an outfit formed to document Nigeria's rich culture.

Nathalie Etoke is Associate Professor of French and Africana Studies at Connecticut College. Her documentary Afro-Diasporic French Identities examines the relationship between ethnicity and race in the French sociopolitical context, focusing on the stigmatization of “the Other.”

A lunchtime conversation with Ann Chinn, Executive Director of the Middle Passage Ceremonies & Port Markers Project

Tuesday, April 29th, 2014
12:00pm
Pembroke Hall 305

Free and Open to the Public
Lunch will be provided

RSVPs are kindly appreciated.

This session will update activities of the MPCPMP since October 2013. The primary focus will be upon issues related to public history. Topics for discussion will include:

• historical accuracy and perspectives

• garnering community support and endorsement,

• identifying and involving crucial groups/persons required for success,

• controlling and implementing a final product, and

• integrating historical information into existing institutions and organizations.

The experiences and suggestions of participants who have an interest or are working with public history will be most welcomed.

For information on this initiative visit: www.middlepassageproject.org

Please join us for the eighth in an occasional speaker series.

Building a 21st Century Education System in Rhode Island: Getting It Done

Featuring Gregory Hodge, social change activist and organizational development consultant with Khepera Consulting

Tuesday, April 29th, 2014
5:00-7:00pm
List Art Center
Lecture Hall, Room 120
Brown University
64 College Street

Light refreshments will be provided

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