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CSSJ Weekly Newsletter
June 5, 2015

 
 
 

Coming up next week

 

Callaloo is a journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters based at Texas A&M University, recently being ranked one of the top 15 literary magazines in the United States by Every Writer’s Resource. The 2015 Workshop and Conference will be held at Brown University, cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice and the Department of Africana Studies.

Please join us for the following events. All are free and open to the public.

Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Workshop Participants' Reading
5:30-7:30 PM | George Houston Bass Performing Arts Space, Churchill House, 155 Angell Street

Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Callaloo Conference Opening Reading
Edwidge Danticat: Author, Educator, and Lecturer
6:00-7:30 PM
| George Houston Bass Performing Arts Space, Churchill House, 155 Angell Street

Thursday, June 11, 2015
Making Monuments: The Performance of Memorialization | 9:30-11:00 AM

Myth and Memorialization: The Politics of Memorialization | 2:00-3:30 PM

Pedagogy Roundtable: The Importance of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop | 6:00-7:30 PM


Friday, June 12, 2015
The Other American Reading Brazil | 9:30-11:00 AM

2017 Brazil Callaloo Conference Committee Planning Session | 2:00-3:30 PM

Keynote Address: My Evolution as a Performance Artist
Clifford Owens: Mixed Media and Performance Artist, Writer, and Curator
6:00-7:30 PM

Saturday, June 13, 2015
2016 U.S. Callaloo Conference Committee Planning Session
10:00 AM-12:00 PM | George Houston Bass Performing Arts Space, Churchill House, 155 Angell Street

 
 
 

In the News

 
A deserted beach on Mozambique Island, which was once a major port for the slave trade. Joao Silva/The New York Times

A deserted beach on Mozambique Island, which was once a major port for the slave trade. Joao Silva/The New York Times

Finding a Slave Ship, Uncovering History

The Opinion Pages, New York Times

 
Plans for a museum and center on slavery at the now-vacant Cathedral of St. John in Providence are set to be unveiled. Credit Will Hart / flickr

Plans for a museum and center on slavery at the now-vacant Cathedral of St. John in Providence are set to be unveiled. | Credit Will Hart / flickr

A Providence Slavery Center in Old Episcopal Cathedral

Scott MacKay Commentary

 

African Textiles Now on View

A group of African wax-print textiles is on view in the Costume & Textiles study center of the RISD Museum, curated by our Public Humanities graduate fellow Jazzmen Lee-Johnson.

 
 
 

Beyond the Center