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  15th Annual Chris Gray Memorial Lecture - When History Roars Back: the Animal Turn in African Historical Scholarship

  African & African Diaspora Studies Program, Florida International University

  Professor Saheed Aderlnto, Florida International University.
  Free Live Webinar

  This lecture is about the emergence of scholarship on animal-human histroy in African studies. It focuses on theoretical and methodological issues that influence how scholars write animals into African history. Saheed Aderlnto is Professor of History and African and African Diaspora Studies at Florida International University. He is the author and editor of eight books, including Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa: The Human and Nonhuman Creatures of Nigeria (Ohio University Press, 2022). Aderinto is a 2023 winner of the prestigious Dan David Prize for his work situating African history at the cutting edge of diverse literatures in the history of sexuality, nonhumans, and violence.

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  13th Annual Chris Gray Memorial Lecture - Interdisciplinarity and Interpretation: Notes from African Urban Studies

  African & African Diaspora Studies Program, Florida International University

  Professor Ato Quayson, Stanford University
  Free Live Webinar

  Without a doubt, significant contemporary global and societal issues are forcing universities to re-examine their curricula to ensure students are prepared to meet the challenges of today’s world. But in these novel configurations of interdisciplinarity, what role does humanistic inquiry play? Join us for a conversation with author and scholar Ato Quayson, who will share his innovative vision of interdisciplinarity in higher education and how this has shaped his teaching and research in African urban studies. Dr. Quayson’s re-thinking of interdisciplinarity from a humanistic and interpretive perspective offers a unique approach to building a truly inclusive and holistic university curriculum for the 21st century.

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  10th Annual AADS Humanities Afternoon - Brownstones to Beloved: Diasporic Crossings in the Works of Toni Morrison and Paule Marshall

  African & African Diaspora Studies Program, Florida International University

  The 10th Annual AADS Humanities Afternoon will recognize the work of two trailblazing Black women writers who have made groundbreaking contributions to the development of the African Diasporic literacy tradition. Both Marshall and Morrison have centered the role of women, not just as cultural bearers of the African presence in the Americas, but as key actors in the preservation of our cultural historiography, our hopes and dreams, our brilliance and virtuosity, our spirit of resilience and transformation against seemingly impossible odds.

  Keynote Speaker Dr. Carole Boyce Davies, Cornell University

  RoundTable Discussion-Panelists:

  Dr. Patricia Saunders, Associate Professor, University of Miami

  Dr. Donette Francis, Associate Professor, University of Miami

  Dr. Donna Aza Weir Soley, Associate Professor, Florida International University

  Dr. Michael Grafals, Instructor, Florida International University

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  The 17th Annual Eric E. Williams Memorial Lecture

  Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University

  This flyer promotes an event for The 17th Annual Eric E.Williams Memorial Lecture, featuring the Honorable Dr. Ralph Everard Gonsalves, Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The event was held on October 23, 2015.

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  The 17th Annual Eric E. Williams Memorial Lecture- The US-Cuba Accord: How the Caribbean Paved the Way

  Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University

  This flyer promotes an event for The 17th Annual Eric E.Williams Memorial Lecture, featuring the Honorable Dr. Ralph Everard Gonsalves, Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The event was held on October 23, 2015 at the Wertheim Performing Arts Center, Florida International University.

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  From Local to Global: Rethinking Yoruba Religious Traditions for the Next Millennium

  Department of Religious Studies, Florida International University and African New World Studies, Florida International University

  Program for a major international conference on Yoruba religious traditions organized by Professor Jacob K. Olupona and Professor Terry Rey, co-sponsored by the Florida International University Department of Religious Studies and African-New World Studies Program. December 9-12, 1999. Kovens Conference Center.