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CSSJ Weekly Newsletter
October 30, 2014

 
 
 

Coming next week:

 

The Brown-Tougaloo Partnership (BTP) has been celebrating its 50th Anniversary this year at Tougaloo and Brown.  We have partnered with BTP to host several events at Brown on November 7th/8th, 2014 to commemorate this important milestone. 

We hope you can join us for one or more of these events (please see below). In particular, two events on Friday November 7th, including a panel from veterans of the Civil Rights movement and later that evening, a concert by the Marian Anderson String Quartet.

All events are free and open to the public, but registration is required

Kindly register at http://tinyurl.com/BTPEventRegistration before Sunday, November 2 since space is limited.   If you receive a wait list notice for an event, please know that we will actively manage the wait list for any events that ​reach​ capacity, and let you know if a space becomes available.

 

BTP 50TH ANNIVERSARY EVENTS SCHEDULE

SNCC Legacy Project Symposium Panels and Lunch
Friday, Nov. 7th, 2014, 10:00am - 2:00pm, Maddock Alumni Center, 38 Brown Street

Performance by the Marian Anderson String Quartet and Ifa Bayeza
Friday, Nov. 7th 2014, 7:30 PM (Please arrive 15 minutes early for seating), Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Martinos Auditorium, 154 Angell Street

 


Introducing Professor Roquinaldo Ferreira, CSSJ's Associate Director

 

 

 

 

Welcome, Prof. Ferreira!

 
 

Please join us in welcoming Prof. Ferreira as the Center's first Associate Director!

Roquinaldo Ferreira is Vasco da Gama Associate Professor in the History Dept and the Portuguese and Brazilian Studies Dept. Ferreira received his PhD in African History from UCLA in 2003. Before coming to Brown in 2013, he taught at the University of Virginia. He specializes in African, Colonial Brazilian, and Atlantic Histories. He is the author of Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Atlantic World: Angola and Brazil during the Era of the Slave Trade (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012), and Dos Sertões ao Atlântico: Tráfico Ilegal de Escravos e Comércio Lícito em Angola, 1830-1860 (Luanda: Kilombelombe, 2012).

 
 
 

In the news:

Providence Journal: Former president Ruth Simmons says Brown’s new Slavery and Justice Center should not be a hub for activism

Brown Daily Herald: Ruth Simmons inaugurates Slavery and Justice Center

 
 
 

Save the date

 
 

Beyond the Center:

CSREA event!

A Closer Walk With Thee: A Jazz Funeral for Black Men Who’ve Died Unjustly

Monday, November 3rd
5:15 PM
Manning Chapel, 69 Brown St

In loving memory of black men who have died unjustly in the arms of racially motivated police brutality and gun violence, members of Brown University and the greater Providence community will gather at Manning Chapel on November 3rd at 5:15pm for a jazz funeral march with live music by local Providence bands. Please join this collective effort to grieve this tragic loss and reflect upon its meaning.

 

The Department of Africana Studies Colloquium Series

Racist Ideas Before American Slavery: A Revisionist History 1453-1619
Monday, November 3, 2014
12 PM
Churchill House Conference Room

 

Hype Hero
A new play by Dominic Taylor
October 30-November 2 & November 6-9
Brown Theatre