Category: Live Events

  • Color and Cultural Identity BlogTalkRadio Bruce Hurwitz Presents 2012-01-12, 18:00Z (13:00 EST, 10:00 PST) Bruce Hurwitz, Host Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Ph.D. Forum introduces listeners to doctoral and post-doctoral students and their cutting-edge research in the arts, sciences, or humanities. As part of our Ph.D. Forum, I will be joined by Marcia…

  • “IndiVisible” Discusses African–Native American Lives Newsdsesk: Newsroom of the Smithsonian Institution 2012-01-06 “IndiVisible: African–Native American Lives in the Americas,” a 20-panel display that outlines the seldom-viewed history and complex lives of people of dual African American and Native American ancestry, will open at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in New York, the…

  • Call for Proposals: Escaping to Destinations South: The Underground Railroad, Cultural Identity, and Freedom Along the Southern Borderlands National Park Service Network to Freedom 2012-06-20 through 2012-06-24 St. Augustine, Florida Call for proposal deadline is Sunday, 2012-01-15, 23:59 PST (Local Time). The 2012 Conference theme is the resistance to slavery through escape and flight to…

  • Escaping to Destinations South: The Underground Railroad, Cultural Identity, and Freedom Along the Southern Borderlands National Park Service Network to Freedom 2012-06-20 through 2012-06-24 St. Augustine, Florida The Network to Freedom has joined with local partners to present an annual UGRR [Underground Railroad] conference beginning in 2007. These conferences bring together a mix of grass…

  • “I Was Black When It Suited Me; I Was White When It Suited Me”: Racial Identity in the Biracial Life of Marguerite Davis Stewart Journal of American Ethnic History Volume 26, Number 4, Women’s Voices, Ethnic Lives through Oral History (Summer, 2007) pages 24-49 A. Glenn Crothers University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky Tracy E. K’Meyer,…

  • James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex–Colored Man: A Century Later (Session 529) Modern Language Association 127th MLA Annual Convention 2012-01-05 through 2012-01-05 Washington State Convention Center Seattle, Washingon Program arranged by the Division on Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature Presiding Gene Andrew Jarrett, Associate Professor of English Boston University Speakers 1. “Music, Race,…

  • Jean Toomer and Politics (Session 465) Modern Language Association 127th MLA Annual Convention 2012-01-05 through 2012-01-08 Washington State Convention Center Seattle, Washington A Special Session Saturday, 2012-01-07, 12:00-13:15 PST (Local Time) Room 6A, WSCC Presiding: Gino Pellegrini, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California Speakers: Barbara Clare Foley, Professor of English and…

  • Crossing Lines: Praxis in Mixed Race/Space Studies: Proposal Deadline Crossing Lines: Praxis in Mixed Race/Space Studies 2012-03-16 throught 2012-03-17 University of California, Berkeley Co-Sponsored by the UC Berkeley Center for Race and Gender and Ethnic Studies Department Call for Proposals – Deadline: 2012-01-15 In traditional Ethnic Studies, mixed race scholarship has often been marginalized, misappropriated,…

  • The 2012 Lorraine W. Frank Lecture & Humanities Awards: Featuring Rita Dove Arizona Humanities Council Tempe Mission Palms 60E. 5th Street Tempe, Arizona 85281 2012-04-12 Free & Open to the Public In celebration of National Poetry Month, the Arizona Humanities Council is proud to present Rita Dove as the keynote speaker for the 2012 Lorraine…

  • CCIG Forum 24: ‘Mixing’/’Non-mixing’? The in/significance of race in mixed raciality, family narratives and welfare practices Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance Open University Walton Hall Milton Keynes, United Kingdom Library Seminar Rooms 1 & 2 2011-12-06, 10:00-17:00Z Keynote speakers: Chantal Badjiie (Editorial Lead on the Mixed Race Season on the BBC, TBC), Petra Nordqvist…