Category: Live Events

  • Being Mixed Race: What are the identity politics of the million-strong ‘Jessica Ennis generation’? Women of the World Festival Southbank Centre 2013-03-06 through 2013-03-10 Sunday, 2013-03-10, 12:00-13:00Z Level 5 Function Room Royal Festival Hall Panelists: Emma Dabiri, Teaching Fellow Africa Department, School of African and Oriental Studies, London Visual Sociology Ph.D. Researcher, Goldsmiths University of…

  • Laylah Ali: The Greenheads Series Weisman Art Museum University of Minnesota 333 East River Road Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 (612) 625-9494 2013-02-16 through 2013-05-12 Laylah Ali, Associate Professor of Art Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts Join us for a talk with Laylah Ali on March 7, 2013. WAM is pleased to present Laylah Ali: The Greenheads Series.…

  • “Double Natural” Yale University Department of African American Studies 81 Wall St., Gordon Parks Room 201 2013-01-24, 11:45-13:15 EST (Local Time) Ellen Gallagher, Hayden Visiting Artist Yale University Art Gallery Ellen Gallagher breaks the boundaries of traditional art by using materials and found images in unexpected ways. Her work often looks at how African Americans…

  • One Drop of Love: Debut Performance Arena Theater California State University, Los Angeles 5151 State University Drive [Directions] [Map] Los Angeles, California 90032 Saturday, 2013-03-09, 20:00 PST (Local Time) Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, Playwright, Producer, Actress, Educator Jillian Pagan, Director One Drop of Love is a solo show by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni that journeys from Jamaica…

  • It Takes a Village: Building Support Structures for Mixed Race Students in Higher Education National Conference on Race and Ethnicity (NCORE) 26th Annual National Conference New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-05-28 through 2013-06-01 2013-05-31, 15:15-17:15 CST (Local Time) Lawrence-Minh Davis, Founding Co-Director The Asian American Literary Review, Inc. Jennifer Hayashida, Professor and Director of Asian American Studies…

  • Multiracial Identity and Intersectionality: New Ways of Understanding Racial Identity in Ourselves and Our Students National Conference on Race and Ethnicity (NCORE) 26th Annual National Conference New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-05-28 through 2013-06-01 2013-05-30, 13:30-15:30 CST (Local Time) Meg Chang, Faculty California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, California Charmaine L. Wijeyesinghe, Consultant, Organizational Development and…

  • Mixing Matters: Critical Intersectionalities: Call For Papers Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies (CERS) University of Leeds 2013-05-18 An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Symposium on Critical Mixed Race Studies The Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies (CERS) at the University of Leeds invites postgraduate research students to participate in a one-day symposium which will be held on…

  • Japanese-Brazilian Music and Ethnic Identity in the Post-Dekasegi Era: A lecture by Shanna Lorenz Barnard College, Columbia University Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall 3009 Broadway, New York, New York 2013-02-28, 18:00 EST (Local Time) Shanna Lorenz, Assistant Professor, Music; Advisory Committee, Latino/a and Latin American Studies Occidental College, Los Angeles This talk explores how…

  • An evening wtih Lawrence Hill Central YMCA 20 Grosvenor Street Toronto, Ontario, Canada Thursday, 2013-02-21, 18:30-21:00 EST (Local Time) RSVP Deadline: 2013-02-19 Join us for an evening celebrating Black History Month with renowned Canadian author, Lawrence Hill. Lawrence Hill has written a number of award winning books including The Book of Negroes…. For more information,…

  • World Premier of Christmas in Hanoi East West Players 120 Judge John Aiso Street Los Angeles, California 90012 2013-02-07 through 2013-03-10 Tim Dang, Producing Artistict Director Eddie Borey, Playwright Jeff Liu, Director East West Players Presents Christmas in Hanoi A mixed-race family returns to Vietnam for the first time since the war. One year after…