Marlene L. Daut launches digital resource for early 19th century Haiti
Marlene L. Daut launches digital resource for early 19th century Haiti
Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies
Congratulations Class of 2018 from all of us at the Carter G. Woodson Institute upon successful completion of a demanding course of study! We are as pleased and as proud as your family must be. We are looking forward to seeing you at our diploma ceremony.
LOCATION/TIME
Our departmental diploma ceremony will be conducted Saturday, May 19, 2018, in Minor Hall Room 125
SWAHILI CULTURAL NIGHT
Please come out for SWAHILI CULTURAL NIGHT.
When: April 27,2017
Where: 110 Minor Hall
Time: 5:00-6:30PM
You are invited to the Swahili Cultural Night event organized by Swahili Students at UVA. Students will be presenting skits, songs and poems. They also welcome you to taste some delicious Swahili food.
See you there!
Enduring Questions, New Methods
April 2018 Conference on Haitian Studies
"Enduring Questions, New Methods: Haitian Studies in the 21st Century"
In the spirit of Papa Legba (a Haitian lwa, or spirit, who acts as a crossroads between the human and non-human worlds), this conference is dedicated to what Gina Ulysse has called “New Narratives of Haiti.” We envision this conference as a series of roundtables. Dispensing with formal papers, we hope to facilitate conversation as a crossroads at which scholars might generatively explore Haitian history, art, politics, and culture in ways that contest narratives of fear, repression, failure, and dependency.
African American and African Studies Alumni Panel --
August in Perspective
The 'Creative Responses to #Charlottesville' event series was organized in the aftermath of August 11th and 12th to provide a space for healing through creative expression
Woodson Institute's 'August in Perspective: Creative Responses' Calls to Body and Soul
Writing and performing original plays and hip-hop. Learning African dances that enslaved people brought with them from regions of Africa to the American South. Making collages with “found” poetry. Putting broken pottery back together – showing the cracks – using the Japanese kintsugi repair method.
August in Perspective: Culminating Showcase
Culminating Showcase
- March 2nd 7:00 pm, The Haven
- Performance of "A King's Story" by Joshua St. Hill, Amaya Wallace, and the Monticello Drama Department
- Performance of plays created during the 12-hour play project, "How to Live in Charlottesville"
- Performance of musical composition on redevelopment by children of Friendship Court
- Poetry readings
- Display and discussion of Kintsugi pottery and Solidarity Cards
August in Perspective: “Crafting Spaces of Solidarity and Resistance”
“Crafting Spaces of Solidarity and Resistance,” Erasure/Found Poetry with Sara Brickman, Solidarity Cards with Destinee Wright, and Kintsugi pottery with Ashon Crawley
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