CSSJ Weekly Newsletter
October 20, 2015

Thanks to everyone who joined us for Family Weekend. We enjoyed seeing familiar faces and greeting new guests. Your support means a great deal to us and we hope you'll join us for events in the future.

Many thanks,
Tony, Roque, Shana, and Ruth

Coming up:

October 20, 2015
Affective Objects: Selling Pleasures in the New Orleans Slave Market
New Directions in the History of U.S. Slavery series

October 22, 2015
The Frankenstein of Slavery: Middle Passage Studies & The Future of Memory
New Directions in the History of U.S. Slavery series

October 24 & 25, 2015
Mule Levee Holler
Developed and directed by Connie Crawford 

Beyond the Center:

Roger Williams University: The Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project

October 28, 2015
6:00 PM

Director Ann Chinn and activist Emily Kugler join us to talk about The Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project (MPCPMP), which commemorates the nearly 2 million Africans who perished in the Middle Passage of the trans-Atlantic human trade. 

Petey Greene Program at Brown Information Session

The Petey Greene program is starting at Brown this Spring! The Petey Greene Program envisions a world in which all incarcerated people have access to high quality academic programs. Petey Greene sees access to education as an essential part of recognizing the dignity of incarcerated people. Petey Greene aims to supplement education in local correctional institutions by providing individualized tutoring to people who are incarcerated. They work to promote academic achievement in prison classrooms in order to support people and build stronger communities. Petey Greene volunteers tutor in high school equivalency, college courses, and other educational classes at the Rhode Island Prisons once a week for 3 hours. Interested in getting involved? 

Come to their information session on the first floor of the Career Lab on November 10th, 8-9pm. If you have more questions and/or want an application, contact Aidea Downie '18 (aidea_downie@brown.edu) or Regional Field Manager Eleanor Roberts (eroberts@peteygreene.org).

Thursday, November 5th and Friday, November 6th, 2015

Readings by Esther Phillips and Kwame Dawes
November 5, 2015
5:30 PM
George Houston Bass Performing Arts Space
Churchill House, 155 Angell Street

Seminar with Esther Phillips and Kwame Dawes
November 6, 2015
10AM-11:30 AM
Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice, Seminar Room
94 Waterman Street

Book Launch of Leaving Atlantis by Esther Phillips
November 6, 2015
12:30 PM
Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice, First Floor Gallery
94 Waterman Street

Cosponsored by The Department of Africana Studies / Rites and Reason Theatre & the Africa and African Diasporic Knowledges Project.