Black Europe: The African Diaspora in Europe
Spring Semester 2008 Lecture Series
Series convened by Trica Danielle Keaton, Department of American Studies, the Institute for Global Studies, and the Department of African American and African Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
February 7
4:00 - 5:00 pm, 120 Andersen Library
Alexis Peskine, Visual Artist
Lecture: "Paris Noir: Reflections from the Dark Side of the City of Lights."
February 28
4:00 - 5:00 pm, 120 Andersen Library
Michelle Wright, English Department, University of Minnesota
Lecture: "The Physics of Blackness: Black Europe and the Postwar Diaspora"
March 27
4:00 - 5:00 pm, 120 Andersen Library
Araba E. Johnston-Arthur and Njideka Iroh, "Pamoja" Association on Black Austrian History and Presence
Lecture:"“...It's time to define ourselves and not to be defined...": Present counterhis/herstories of the African Diaspora in Austria"
April 3
4:00 - 5:30 pm, 155 Nicholson Hall (UPDATED TIME and LOCATION)
Dineke Stam, Aspha Bijnaar, Charissa Doelwijt, and Verno Romney
National Institute for the Heritage of Slavery & Interculturele museum-en erfgoedprojecten/Intercultural Museum and Heritage Projects (IMHP)
Lecture: “Diasporic Roots: Belonging, Racism, and Genetics”
April 10
3:30-5:00 pm, 120 Andersen Library
Alex Frank Larsen, Journalist and Filmmaker
Lecture & Film Screening: “Slavernes Slaegt/Slaves in our Families”
April 11
3:00 - 7:00, Nicholson Hall Room 275
Film Screening: “Slavernes Slaegt/Slaves in our Families”
This film series is comprised of four films all under one hour in duration. All four films will be shown consecutively. Feel free to come and go throughout!
April 24
4:00 - 5:00 pm, 120 Andersen Library
Laurie McIntosh, Anthropology Department, Harvard University
"Impossible Presence: The Cultural Politics of Race, Immigration and National Belonging in Contemporary Norway"
May 1
4:00-5:00 pm, 120 Andersen Library
Mark Christian, Departments of Sociology and Black World Studies, Miami University
"The Age of Slave Apologies: The Case of Liverpool, England with Special Reference to the Black Presence in Britain "
Series co-sponsors:
African American & African Studies; Institute for Global Studies, The College of Liberal Arts, Immigration History Research Center, Departments of German, Scandinavian & Dutch; French & Italian, le Service Culturel du Consulat de Chicago, and de Nederlandse Taalunie.