LECTURES
AFRICAN
DIASPORA LECTURE SERIES
As
a result of the opportunities that the Ford grant provided, Professor
of History Sterling Stuckey proposed a two-year series on the subject
of the African Diaspora. With seed funds from the Ford grant
as his base, he received matching funds from the History Department and
significant new support from the Executive Vice Chancellor. Featuring
leading scholars and performers such as Vinnie Burrows and John Higginson,
the series drew large audiences of faculty and students as well as
considerable numbers of people from the Riverside community.
One of several aims of the Center for Ideas & Society
is to connect the work of the University to the world outside the campus
in the surrounding communities. Both our academic mission and our interest
in serving the community were served by an excellent series of
performances and speakers sponsored by funds received from the Ford
Foundation, the Center, and the Department of History . This series will
continued in the 2001-2002
year with several additional speakers and performers.
SPEAKERS INCLUDED:
Vinnie Burrows, “Ceremony and Ritual: The African Diaspora
Revisited”
Joseph Adjaye, “The African Diaspora and the Contours of
Africanity”
John Higginson, “Winning the Peace, Claiming the Future for the
Past: Power, Property and Collective Violence in the American South and
South Africa, 1865-1914”
J. Lorand Matory, “An African Empire in the
Americas:
On the Trans-Atlantic Rise of Yoruba
Religion”
John Stewart, “HIGH MAS: Carnival in
African-American Spiritual Culture”
Clayborne Carson, “Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International
Implications of Nonviolent Conflict”
Abena P.A. Busia, “Resistance, Rebellions, Revelations:
Black Women’s Poetry as Redemptive History"
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AESTHETICS, IDEOLOGY AND DIFFERENCE IN HISPANIC LITERATURE LECTURE SERIES
As
a result of the Ford grant, Professor of Hispanic Studies Raymond
Williams worked closely with Center Director Elliott to fashion
a lecture series on the subject of “Aesthetics, Ideology and
Difference in Hispanic Literature.” This series brought prominent
scholars in the field of Latin American literature such as Debra Castillo,
Alicia Borinsky, and David Foster to the campus and deepened the awareness
and understanding among both graduate and undergraduate students,
especially on the artistic connections within the Americas.
In addition, several independent border/Latino
performances were scheduled and included NORTEC–a musical performance as
part of the Borders Festival/Festival Fronterizo; a theater performance by
“Chicomoztoc-Mimixcoa-Cloud Serpents” by the Coatlicue Theatre Company and
music of the new millennium performed by TRIBU, Mexican Musicians and the
Kuasemalotl Dancers.
SPEAKERS INCLUDED:
David Foster, “Fagottry Revisited: Jaime Manrique’s Eminent
Maricones”
Debra Castillo, “Back from Exhile: an Argenmex Perspective”
Alicia Borinsky, “Reading from novel Cine Continuado”
Elzbieta Sklodowska, “Larger than Life: Rigoberta Menchu, David
Stoll and the Myths of Testimonio”
Jorge
Mariscal “Tu Querida Presencia: Ernesto Guevara, the Cuban
Revolution, and the Chicano Movement”
Lucia Guerra-Cunningham, “Gender and City in Latin American
Fiction”
Naomi Lindstrom, “Current Day Readers and the Idealogy and
Esthetics of 19th Century Narrative”
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Lectures
and Events in Relation to Performance and Visual Culture
The Center had a very productive year within the area of
“Performance and Visual Culture” with ideas and proposals
that were received from faculty members throughout the campus community.
LECTURES INCLUDED:
Darius
James, “Reading of ‘Negrophobia’ and ‘That’s Blaxploitation’”
Elizabeth Nunez, “Reading from ‘Bruised Hibiscus’”
Giselle Fernandez, “A Soccer Fan Reading ‘End Zone’ A Brazilian
View on Don DeLillo’s Novels”
Thadious Davis, “Motion, Migration, Modernism: Reconfigurations
from an African American Center”
Cecilia Tichi, “Mount Rushmore: Heads of State and States of
Heads”
Hazel Rowley, “Bitter Exile: Richard Wright in Paris in the
50’s”
Michael Rogin, “World War Nostalgia: The Influence of Private
Ryan on Sergeant York”
Ana Maria Fraile, “Puritan Heritage and the Formation of an
African American Ethnic Identity in Toni Morrison’s Paradise”
Philomena Essed, “Difference, Discrimination and Diversity:
Immigration Policy and the Impact on Work Organizations in the
Netherlands”
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