Past Events

2021 Dec 02

THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM IN LA ESPAÑOLA: Commemorating the 500th Anniversary of the First African Slave Revolt in the Americas

Thu - Fri, Dec 2 to Dec 3, 9:00am - 5:00pm
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On the second day of Christmas in December of 1521, African Black enslaved people near Santo Domingo City broke free from their captivity, took to the streets, taking the lives of Spanish colonists that kept them in bondage and bought them as commodities. Consequently, the Spanish authorities issued laws to punish the rebels and prevent Black people from attempting to rise up again for their freedom. The Santo Domingo Slave Revolt of 1521 and the Slave Laws of 1522 have been recorded as the first of their kind in the history of the Americas. It...
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2021 Nov 19

Book Presentation: Ediciones El Puente and the Gaps of the Cuban Literary Canon - Post-revolutionary cultural dynamics

12:00pm to 2:00pm
This event is virtual, to register click here.

Author: María Isabel Alfonso, Professor of Spanish and Chair of the Department of Modern Languages at St. Joseph’s College
Discussant: César A. Salgado, Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Graduate Adviser in the Program in Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin
Moderated by: Doris Sommer, Ira...
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2021 Nov 19

Clase Magistral con Francia Marquez: La agenda del activismo de las mujeres afrodescendientes en Colombia

11:00am to 1:00pm
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Online: ALARI Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoUJoHlvkZi1QHstn0kJaFw
Francia Márquez va a dar una clase magistral a nuestros participantes de la tercera cohorte del Certificado en estudios afrolatinoamericanos. La transmisión en directo se hará en nuestro canal de YouTube.
2021 Nov 04

Film Screening: “Marighella” - Conversation with Maria Marighella

6:00pm to 8:00pm
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Register here: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VQ--A6D2RNeAH6kTWNY2qg
This event is virtual and will be held in Portuguese with simultaneous English interpretation. To register, click here.

Speaker: Maria Marighella, City Council member of Salvador, Bahia; Carlos Marighella's grandaughter
Moderated by: Sidney Chalhoub, Professor of History and African and African-American Studies, Harvard University
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2021 Oct 22

Conversatorio: Migraciones Haitianas Contemporáneas: Fronteras, detenciones y violencias raciales

12:00pm to 2:00pm
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Register here: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqdO6oqT0vGdLZZ7fmQ8uyLPCHaxAfgjGI
El conversatorio tiene como objetivo analizar los impulsores económicos, políticos y sociales que motivan la migración haitiana en América Latina. Desde una perspectiva interdisciplinar se abordan los tránsitos migratorios, el cruce de fronteras, las políticas de encierro y control, así como la violencia racial y xenofobia contra los migrantes haitianos. Particularmente, nos detendremos en analizar la actual crisis humanitaria que viven los migrantes en la frontera entre Colombia-Panamá y México-Estados...
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2021 Oct 15

ALARI Seminar Series with Nohora Arrieta: Poéticas amargas: estéticas y políticas de la plantación de azúcar en Brasil y el Caribe (1990-2018)

12:00pm to 2:00pm
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Register here: https://bit.ly/NohoraArrieta2021
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2021 Oct 11

Artist Talk: Afro-Latin American Art

12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/artists-talk-5-artists-reflect-on-the-emerging-artists-learning-pathway-tickets-172593912037

About this event

Artists Talk #5 is a continuation of the Darryl Chappell Foundation's Artists Talk Series where emerging and established artists share their career life experiences, highlight obstacles along their path and demonstrate how they were able to confront and overcome...
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2021 Sep 17

ALARI Seminar Series Inauguration Lecture with Aurora Vergara: Estudios Afrocolombianos en el año de la libertad (2021)

12:00pm to 2:00pm
Register here: https://bit.ly/auroravergara2021

ESTUDIOS AFROCOLOMBIANOS EN EL AÑO DE LA LIBERTAD (2021)

Resumen

El 2021 fue declarado como el Año de la Libertad por el Ministerio de Cultura de Colombia. Se conmemoran 200 años de la ley de libertad de vientres y 170 años de la abolición de la esclavitud. Esta coyuntura coincide con el segundo año de la pandemia del COVID19 y con una ola de movilizaciones sociales que ocurrieron entre abril 28 y julio 28 aproximadamente. En esta conferencia analizaremos la importancia que tienen estos eventos...
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2021 Aug 26

Dia Internacional de Afrodescendientes

12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location:
https://www.facebook.com/riafroredautoridades
2021 May 05

Guest Lecture on Afro-Latin American Studies with Paulina Alberto (University of Michigan): Black Legend: The Extraordinary Raúl Grigera and New Stories of Afro-Argentina

12:00pm to 2:00pm
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Via Zoom
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In the Buenos Aires of the 1910s, Raúl Grigera...
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ALARI: Building the New Field of Afro-Latin American Studies

Past Events

THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM IN LA ESPAÑOLA: Commemorating the 500th Anniversary of the First African Slave Revolt in the Americas

Location:

Book Presentation: Ediciones El Puente and the Gaps of the Cuban Literary Canon - Post-revolutionary cultural dynamics

Clase Magistral con Francia Marquez: La agenda del activismo de las mujeres afrodescendientes en Colombia

Location:

Film Screening: “Marighella” - Conversation with Maria Marighella

Location:

Conversatorio: Migraciones Haitianas Contemporáneas: Fronteras, detenciones y violencias raciales

Location:

ALARI Seminar Series with Nohora Arrieta: Poéticas amargas: estéticas y políticas de la plantación de azúcar en Brasil y el Caribe (1990-2018)

Location:

Artist Talk: Afro-Latin American Art

Location:

ALARI Seminar Series Inauguration Lecture with Aurora Vergara: Estudios Afrocolombianos en el año de la libertad (2021)

Dia Internacional de Afrodescendientes

Location:

Guest Lecture on Afro-Latin American Studies with Paulina Alberto (University of Michigan): Black Legend: The Extraordinary Raúl Grigera and New Stories of Afro-Argentina

Location:

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