UPCOMING EVENTS
AFRICA WEEK 2008: April 13-19, 2008
PAST EVENTS
Evaluating Barack Obama's Speech on Race: A Town Hall Meeting on Race Relations in America
Wednesday, April 9, 2008, McKenna Hall Auditorium, 7 PM
Our distinguished panelists will discuss the historical trajectory of race and its implications on “creating a perfect union” in America. How far have we come on race relations? Where are we going? Can we create a racially united America? We encourage you to come to this town hall meeting to voice your opinions and concerns on the issue.
March 13, 2008
Eck Vistors’ Center Auditorium, University of Notre DameReception: 6:00pm
Symposium: 7:00pm
“The Department of Africana Studies invites you to its fifth annual Peters Fellowship Symposium. The panelists will discuss political, class and social differences and other diversity issues within the black community and what this means for the broader American culture.”
Africana Studies Club Fireside Chat, December 3, 2007, Hammes Bookstore, 7:00 PM
Responding to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Power of Academic Partnerships
- A slide show presentation by Dr. Robert Einterz, Professor of Clinical Medicine and Associate Dean for International Affairs, Indiana Univesity School of Medicine
Thursday, November 15, 2006,105 Jordan Hall of Science, 7:00 PM
Martin Luther King, Jr. Presentation Series
WORLDVIEW Film Series
- Birth of a Nation (1915)AC Classic 100
Saturday, September 29, 2007, at 3:00 pm
Browning Cinema
Tickets: $6, $5 faculty/staff,
$4 seniors, and $3 all students
Directed by DW. Griffith
NR, 187 minutes, 16mm print - Deconstructing a Controversial Masterpiece, Browning Cinema, Tuesday, October 2, 2007, at 7:00 pm
Rebirth of a Nation (2004)Wednesday, October 3, 2007, at 8:00 pm
Decio Mainstage Theatre
Tickets: $15, $15 faculty/staff,
$15 seniors, and $10 all students
Rebirth of a Nation galvanizes the audience with a challenging interactive experience. Paul D. Miller (a.k.a. DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid) re-works, re-makes, and re-interprets one of America's most controversial films, Birth of a Nation, and calls it Rebirth of a Nation.
Karyn Lacy, author of Blue Chip Black: Race, Class and Status in the New Black Middle Class will present a lecture on “Identity Construction in Middle Class Suburbia”.
Thursday, September 27, 2007, 116 Debartolo Hall, University of Notre Dame3:00-4:30 P.M.
AFRICA WEEK: April 14-28, 2007
Fourth Annual Erskine Peters Symposium
- Thursday, March 1, 2007, Acting Black, Being Black: Images and Realities of African Americans Pop Culture
"Belly of the Basin" A Documentary on New Orleans residents post-Hurricane Katrina, Anneburg Auditorium, Snite Museum of Art
February 19, 2007
Free Admission
Reception, 6:00 PM
Viewing 7:00-8:00 PM
AFRICA WEEK (April 2-8, 2006)-Weekend Events
- Friday, April 7
Dr. Simeon Ilesanmi, Associate Professor of Religion, Wake Forest University
"National Sovereignty and the Right to Self-Determination in Africa"
DeBartolo 116, 1PM - Afrika Nite- African Students Association
Hesburgh Library Auditorium, 7-9PM - "Darwin's Nightmare" (FREE screening)
Browning Cinema/DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, 7PM and 10PM
Saturday, April 8
Keynote Speaker: Immaculee Ilibagiza
"Rwandan Geoncide 12 Years Later: Hope and Peace"
Jordan Auditorium, 5PM
April 3, 2006: Comparative Multilingualisms in Literature featuring the work of Anzaldua, Dangarembga and Djebar, Presented by Anne Donadey
210-214 McKenna Hall, 4:30 PM (Reception to follow)
March 23, 2006: Searching for African American Leadership
Erskine A. Peters Fellows Symposium
March 3-4, 2006: The 48th Annual Jazz Festival of the University of Notre Dame
Washington Hall, 6:00-11:00 PM
February 23, 2006: Black History Month Lecture "Harvesting Strange Fruit: The History of Lynching in America" by Dr. Alvin Tillery
136 DeBartolo Hall, 7 PM
February 18, 2006: DPAC Presents: Soweto Gospel Choir
February 17, 2006: Rosa Parks Memorial Concert
March 25, 2006: “African Americans in the Academy:” Annual Erskine Peters Fellows Symposium
October 5-7, 2005: "The Long Reach of African American Poetics," a mini conference celebrating the influence of African America cadences and verse