Category: Live Events

  • Métis, mixed-ness and music: Aboriginal-Ukrainian encounters and cultural production on the Canadian prairies The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies University of Washington Canadian Studies Center Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall Wednesday, 2011-04-20 19:00 PDT (Local Time) Marcia Ostashewski, Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Canadian Studies Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal intermarriages, often described as “mixed-race,” have been the…

  • Journeys in Multiracial America C-SPAN Elliot Bay Book Company Seattle, Washington 2007-01-27 Elliott Lewis Journalist Elliott Lewis discusses his life as a biracial American at Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle. In his memior Fade: My Journeys in Multiracial America, the author explains that while he was raised with two parents of mixed racial heritage…

  • The Society for French Historical Studies 57th Annual Meeting Sponsored by The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina The Francis Marion Hotel Charleston, South Carolina 2011-02-11 through 2011-02-12 Includes the following sessions: 1A “Representation and Commemoration in France and Its Colonies”… Black and White: Figuring the Senegalese Signares [definition in French] Thérèse De Raedt, Associate…

  • The Social Ontology of Race in the “Post-Racial” Era The University of Memphis Department of Philosophy 7th Annual Philosophy Graduate Student Association Conference 2011-02-11 through 2011-02-12 Keynote Speaker Jennifer Lisa Vest, Assistant Professor of Philosophy University of Central Florida In the past several decades, mainstream philosophical discourse has examined the ontology of race from a…

  • Hypodescent: New Work by Gabriel Mejia University of Wisconsin, Madison George L. Mosse Humanities Building 7th Floor Gallery Room 7240 455 North Park Street 2010-12-11 through 2010-12-16 Gabriel Mejia All events are free and open to the public. Closing Reception: 2010-12-16, 19:00-21:00 CST (Local Time). A meditation on identity and the social constructs of racial…

  • Natasha Trethewey: 2010 Littoral: The Journal of Key West Literary Seminar 2010-03-17 Arlo Haskell Natasha Trethewey is the author of three collections of poetry, including Native Guard, which won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize, Bellocq’s Ophelia, and Domestic Work, which won the inaugural Cave Canem Poetry Prize. A native of Mississippi, a member of the Dark…

  • “War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art” Critical Ethnic Studies Association Conference University of California, Riverside Critical Ethnic Studies and the Future of Genocide: Settler Colonialism/Heteropatriarchy/White Supremacy 2011-03-10 through 2011-03-12 Laura Kina, Associate Professor of Art, Media, and Design and distinguished Vincent de Paul Professor DePaul University Wei Ming Dariotis, Associate Professor Asian American…

  • “Mixed Race, White Mother: Love and Identity in the Age of Obama” 8th Floor, Raymond Hall State University of New York, Potsdam 2011-03-22, 16:00 EST (Local Time) Dr. Traci Fordham-Hernandez, Associate Professor of Performance and Communication Arts St. Lawrence University Part of the SUNY Potsdam Women’s and Gender Studies Anne R. Malone Lecture Series. For…

  • A Critical Race Theory Approach to Understanding Cinematic Representations of the Mixed Race Experience Center for Race & Gender University of California, Berkeley 2010-12-08 10/5/2010 CRG Forum: Mixed Race/Mixed Space in Media Culture & Militarized Zones “A Critical Race Theory Approach to Understanding Cinematic Representations of the Mixed Race Experience” Kevin Escudero, Ethnic Studies This…

  • World Premiere of “Family Portrait in Black and White” at 2011 Sundance Film Festival Family Portrait in Black and White 2011 Interfilm Productions, Inc. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Directed by: Julia Ivanova Producted by Boris Ivanov OLGA NENYA is a foster mother to SIXTEEN BLACK ORPHANS in Ukraine—where 99.9% of the population is white and…