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Join us for these coming events:

Slave Revolt & the Geographic Imagination

Monday, March 31, 2014
2:00pm
Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall
194 Meeting Street

Moderated by: Prof. Linford Fisher, Brown University

Speakers: Prof. Roquinaldo Ferreira, Brown University
Prof. Natasha Lightfoot, Columbia University
Prof. Vincent Brown, Harvard University
Isadora Mota, Brown University

Women’s Resistance: What the Legacy of Margaret Garner Teaches Us Today

Prof. Delores Walters of the University of Rhode Island

Lecture & book signing
Thursday, April 3, 2014
5:30pm
Petteruti Lounge (2nd floor), Steven Robert '62 Campus Center
75 Waterman Street
 

The Matriculating Indian and the Uneducable Negro: Race, Slavery, and American Colleges

Prof. Craig Steven Wilder of MIT

Lecture & book signing
Thursday, April 24, 2014
5:30pm
Location TBD

A lunchtime conversation with Ann Chinn, of the Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project

Tuesday, April 29, 2014
12:00pm
Location TBD
 

The Many Faces of Toussaint L' Ouverture and the Haitian Revolution

Exhibition opening reception
Thursday, May 22, 2014
5:30pm
Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
Lower Lobby Gallery
154 Angell Street

The Haitian Revolution was an event of world significance which challenged the then dominant system of racial slavery.  This exhibition by one of Haiti's leading artists, Edouard Duval-Carrié, will pay attention to the  many different ways in which the leader of the Revolution, Toussaint L'Ouverture, was portrayed.

Thank you!

As always, thank you for your continued support of the Center. We look forward to seeing you again at our upcoming events and welcome new faces! To learn more about our past events, please visit our video and photo archives.