Category: Live Events

  • U-M’s Understanding Race Project examines issues at heart of the human experience, advances national conversation on race University of Michigan News Release 2012-12-19 Contacts: Frank Provenzano, (734) 647-4411 Maryanne George, (734) 615-6514 Deborah Greene, (734) 763-4008 Twitter hashtags: #UnderstandRace, #UMtheme   ANN ARBOR—Few subjects provoke as strong a visceral response as the topic of race.…

  • Dismantling the Race Myth Kyoto International Conference Center Kyoto, Japan 2012-12-15 through 2012-12-16 Poster (PDF, Japanese) Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University presents International Symposium.   “Race” still has social reality even though it has no biological reality. This symposium aims to dismantle the race myth by bringing together scholars in a wide range…

  • Design Yourself: IAMNMAI Art Jam National Museum of the American Indian Potomac Atrium, 1st level Fourth Street & Independence Ave., S.W. Washington, D.C. 2012-12-08, 19:00-22:00 EST (Local Time) Design Yourself: IAMNMAI Art Jam” is an artistic partnership designed to explore issues of identity, community and mixed heritage through art while reminding us that everyone, in…

  • Donas, Signares, and Free Women of Color: African and Eurafrican Women of the Atlantic World in an Age of Racial Slavery 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06 AHA Session 153 Saturday, 2013-01-05: 09:00-11:00 CST (Local Time) Chamber Ballroom II (Roosevelt New Orleans) Chair: Hilary Jones, University of…

  • Black Faces, White Deeds: The Miracles of Ancient Ethiopian Saints in the Early Modern Catholic Atlantic 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06 Thursday, 2013-01-03: 16:10 CST (Local Time) Preservation Hall, Studio 3 (New Orleans Marriott) From Session AHA Session 31: Saintly Translations: Stories about Saints across Time…

  • Life Stories, Local Places, and the Networks of Free Women of Color in Early North America 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06 AHA Session 72 Friday, 2013-01-04: 08:30-10:00 CST (Local Time) Preservation Hall, Studio 7 (New Orleans Marriott) Chair: Daina Ramey Berry, University of Texas, Austin Papers:…

  • Family Stories, Local Practices, and the Struggle for Social Improvement in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Latin America 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06 AHA Session 25: Conference on Latin American History 3 Thursday, 2012-01-03: 13:00-15:00 CST (Local Time) Conti Room (Roosevelt New Orleans) Chair: Matt D. O’Hara, University…

  • Boundaries, Subjectivity, and Knowledge Production in Colonial Río de la Plata 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06 Conference on Latin American History 65 Saturday, 2013-01-05: 14:30-16:30 CST (Local Time) Ursuline Salon (Hotel Monteleone) Chair: Shawn Michael Austin, University of New Mexico Papers: “The Emergence of Guaraní-Christian Subject…

  • Germans Loving Others: Narrating Interracial Romance in Kenya, North America, and Guatemala 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06 AHA Session 70: Central European History Society 3 Friday, 2013-01-04: 08:30-10:00 CST (Local Time) Chamber Ballroom II (Roosevelt New Orleans) Chair: Andrew Zimmerman, George Washington University Papers: “Seeking Winnetou:…

  • Children of Empire: The Fate of Mixed-Race Individuals in British India, the Caribbean, and the Early American Republic 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06 AHA Session 105: North American Conference on British Studies Friday, 2013-01-04, 10:30-12:00 CST (Local Time) Chamber Ballroom III (Roosevelt New Orleans) Chair: Kathleen…