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2022 Apr 08

ALARI Seminar Series with Laura Correa Ochoa: Black and Indigenous Mobilization in Colombia, 1930-2022

12:00pm to 2:00pm
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https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUlfuigqDMrHdzrRiXLJMVEH_0N8HQF4_k5

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.
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2022 Mar 21

Structural Racism in Brazil and the US

12:30pm
Register here: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Ul4fO_BzTC-bK0I-qfhmkA

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...
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2022 Mar 11

ALARI Seminar Series with Tanya Saunders: Black Brazilian Artivists’ Epistemic Challenges to Coloniality of Affect

12:00pm to 2:00pm
Register here:  https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYldu-tqz4oGdKktaxahMhIpJuucq3qh48W

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...
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2022 Feb 11

IAP-UAM Lecture Series with Ofelia Lopez: After the Skin: Representing Race in Cuban Literature (1882-1991)

12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location:
Via Zoom
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https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMtfuysrDwtE9SBZwnLzxRkqLfWekt7loG3

In Spanish. En español.

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....
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2022 Feb 04

ALARI Seminar Series with Luis Gilberto Murillo: Política ambiental y climática: Enfoque diferencial para Pueblos Afro-descendientes en las Américas

12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location:
Online
Register here: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwod-ihqjsvGNRWK2lx9e_zupP_vWC6aCeo

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...
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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
Location:
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-struggle-for-freedom-in-la-espanola-virtual-conference-tickets-207524319827
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
Location:
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
Location:
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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
Location:
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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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ALARI: Building the New Field of Afro-Latin American Studies

Past Events

ALARI Seminar Series with Laura Correa Ochoa: Black and Indigenous Mobilization in Colombia, 1930-2022

Structural Racism in Brazil and the US

ALARI Seminar Series with Tanya Saunders: Black Brazilian Artivists’ Epistemic Challenges to Coloniality of Affect

IAP-UAM Lecture Series with Ofelia Lopez: After the Skin: Representing Race in Cuban Literature (1882-1991)

Location:

ALARI Seminar Series with Luis Gilberto Murillo: Política ambiental y climática: Enfoque diferencial para Pueblos Afro-descendientes en las Américas

Location:

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:

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