Poliana Ferreira is PhD student at the São Paulo School of Law of the Getulio Vargas Foundation, she holds a Master's degree in Law and Development from the São Paulo School of Law of the Getulio Vargas Foundation....
The talk will talk about my book project which studies the entwined histories of Black and Indigenous mobilization in Colombia from the 1930s to the present. My book seeks to re-write the history of social movements in Colombia through the ideas and actions of these populations.
Speakers: David Williams, Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health; Chair, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan...
This presentation has three goals: First, to illustrate the epistemological interventions of Black Brazilian queer artivists in theories of Black liberation through naming and defining their sexual-dissident-subjectivities and the affective modes they engender, such as the feeling of solidão (solitude). Second, to contribute to efforts to decolonize the academy in the...
This presentation explores literary representations of racial mixture in the Cuban literary production from the colonial era and the Special Period in Time of Pace (1990), a period of severe economic crisis resulting from the collapse of the Soviet Union....
Este seminario fue programado para el 3 de diciembre 2021, pero no se pudo llevar a cabo por razones técnicas.
Los efectos del cambio climático representan una gran amenaza para la población afrodescendiente de las Américas, ya que estos han exacerbado las condiciones de vulnerabilidad y han intensificado la exposición ante riesgos ambientales e injusticias socioeconómicas. Al mismo tiempo, estas comunidades están en una posición única para liderar una variedad de...
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 andthe Slave Laws of 1522have been recorded as the first of their kind in the history of the Americas. It...
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...
