SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS

Boys partaking in Junkanoo, a street parade celebrated in many towns in the Bahamas.
AFRICAN & AFRICAN DIASPORA STUDIES PROGRAM
SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS
WEEKLY ANNOUNCEMENT DIGEST
WEEK OF APRIL 29TH, 2013
Announcements
MIRAMAR LIBRARY PRESENTS: FESTIVAL D’HAITI!
On Saturday, May 11, 2013 from 12 to 5 p.m., the Miramar Branch Library will present the premier
pre- Haitian Flag Day celebration of South Florida! This free event offers a “taste” of all things Haitian –
music, dance, food and fun!
The event will start with the Official Launching of the video documentary “Vibrant Images, Pt. 2” by
LeP’ti Club founder, Jimmy Moise.
In the lobby, we will feature “Writer’s Row”, a place where Haitian-American authors will promote and
sell their latest books.
Outside, an open-air stage will feature:
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Master Storyteller, Lucrece Louisdhon, using her magic to weave tales for young and old and
spread Haitian history and culture to the audience.
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The vocal stylings of Yvette LeBlanc, Ernest Regis and Trio Calebass
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A folkloric dance performance by Nicole Moretta and her Butterfly Dancers
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A very special guest, international recording artist Pokito.
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…and more!
There will be food tents from local caterers: Semaj’s One Way Catering, Caribinfusion Art Catering and
J’s Garden Café as well as merchant venders. There will also be activities and crafts for children.
The event is being hosted by WSRF 1580 AM’s “Plaisir Ambiance” with sound by Triomix.
The art work of Felix Plaisir (artist and member of the Haitian Unity Foundation of Coral Springs and the
Coral Springs Multi-Cultural Committee) will be on display inside the library the entire month of May to
celebrate Haitian-American Cultural Month.
This event is being generously sponsored by the Friends of the Miramar Library with help from the
Haitian Unity Foundation of Coral Springs, Community Access Center and Le P’ti Club.
The Miramar Branch Library is located at 2050 Civic Center Place in Miramar; phone 954-357-8090.
The award-winning Broward County Libraries Division, founded in 1974, provides essential quality-of-life
community service as well as outstanding customer service. By population served, it is the ninth-largest
library system in the nation. It is also one of the busiest, with more than nine million walk-in customers
visiting its thirty seven locations annually. The library provides more than 3.4 million items and 2,000
computers for public use as well as hundreds of events and programs that meet the changing needs of
the Broward County’s diverse community. The library continues its strong emphasis on literacy and
after-school programs and also administers the services, programs, collections and exhibits of the
Historical Commission. The library’s web site, www.broward.org/library continuously evolves to meet
the needs of its thousands of electronic access customers. In addition to providing electronic visitors
with information about its locations, services, and events, the web site has easy links to online catalogs,
reference information and electronic databases.
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Provocative Drama Waafrika Explores Love, Family, Taboos
Set in Kenya after the nation's first democratic elections in 1992, Waafrika is a searing drama
about liberty, love, family ties and cultural taboos. The elections not only overhauled the
government, but set into motion an unprecedented level of self-expression and a wave of
freedom unlike the country had ever seen. This drama, written by Kenyan Nick Mwaluko,
explores the struggle between traditional African values and self-identity. This challenging,
emotional play heralds the arrival of a bold new voice on the theater scene.
Multiple Showings. Please click here to view dates and times and information
about the playwright Nick Mwaluko.
Full Price:
$35.00
Our Price:
$17.50*
Empire Stage (1140 N. Flagler Drive Ft Lauderdale, FL 33304)
Call for Proposals:
New!
Call for Papers: “Seeing Disciplines, Their Histories and Our Futures Through
the Caribbean,” an international workshop to be held December 12-13, 2013 at
Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, Martinique. This gathering of faculty and
advanced graduate students is the first planned activity for the 2013-2015 initiative
“From Imperial Science to International Relations,” supported by a Partner
University Fund grant.
From Imperial Science to International Relations is a research project and
academic network comprised of scholars from Florida International University,
Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, University of Pennsylvania and Northeastern
University; the University of Puerto Rico and the University of the West Indies are
project affiliates. An opportunity brought to FIU by LACC, the three-year grant supports
collaborative research, which positions the Caribbean as a central point for the study of
international relations. The project re-examines the Western tradition of international
studies from a perspective that reintroduces the critical role of non-Western territories
in the field's history. Grant activities support curriculum development, scholarly
exchange, student exchange, online resources and visiting research appointments for
member institutions. To date, FIU administrators, faculty and staff from the following
units have supported the project: College of Arts and Sciences, School of International
and Public Affairs (History, Politics and International Relations, European Studies,
African and African Diaspora Studies, Global Sociocultural Studies), FIU Libraries Special
Collections--Digital Library of the Caribbean. Anyone interested in more information or
in joining the list of affiliates, should contact Prof. Chantalle F. Verna at [email protected].
New!
CALL FOR PAPERS: Black Radical Thought, Pedagogy and Praxis: A Conference in Honour of
Professor Rupert Lewis, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica
October 10-12, 2013
In marking the contributions of one of its distinguished members, the Department of Government,
University of the West Indies, Mona will host a conference in honour of Professor Rupert Lewis. The
conference will be held under the theme "Black Radical Thought, Pedagogy and Praxis: A Conference in
Honour of Professor Rupert Lewis," October 10 -12, 2013 at the University of the West Indies, Mona
Campus, Jamaica. Rupert Lewis has spent a lifetime dedicated to teaching and activism meant to affirm
people of African descent in the Caribbean and globally. His work on Marcus Garvey and Walter Rodney
has been critical to the search for knowledge and understanding in the realities of African Diaspora
peoples. He has also been involved in giving practical expression to Pan African ideals through efforts to
build institutions of scholarship in Africa and its Diaspora and through activism. Rupert Lewis has also
been a thinker and activist of the Left.
We invite proposals for individual papers or panel discussions looking at or related to the themes of
scholarship and activism of Rupert Lewis. The themes include the following:
The Life and Times of Rupert Lewis: From Colonial Jamaica to Post- colonial Revolution
The press as activism – The Blackman, Abeng and Struggle
Youths’/Students’ Social and Political activism in post-colonial society: The 1960s, 1970s....prospects in
the 21st century
The intellectual: Social and political activism
Caribbean political thought: Issues relating to Blackness , nationalism, regionalism, sovereignty and
development.
Walter Rodney, Black Power and Narratives of the Post-colonial Journey
Epistemology, Pedagogy, Identity and Black Sovereignty: Africa in Post-Colonial Caribbean Imagination
and Intellectual Culture
Walter Rodney’s Intellectual and political thought
Walter Rodney’s political activism.
The Workers Party of Jamaica and left political parties and movements of the Caribbean the 1960s,
1970s and 1980s: Issues of Governance in Post-colonial Society
Class, race, ethnicity, colour and social change, democracy and empowerment in Jamaica/ the Caribbean
Ideology, organizational principles and programmes of parties and movements of the Caribbean Left;
critical assessment and legacies.
Garveyism in the Americas and Africa
Marcus Garvey: Anti-colonial champion, Pan- Africanism and gender
Psychological Garveyism /Black consciousness: relevance to agency, identity and being
Garveyism, innovation and enterprise
Post-Garvey Pan-Africanism/Black Nationalism.
Culture, Spirituality and Creativity: Artistic expressions in shaping Identity, Sovereignty and Political
Culture
The representation of Marcus Garvey in popular art and culture and the shaping of identity and
sovereignty
Garveyism and Rastafari.
Pedagogy and Institution Building: Education and Socialization
Teaching Garveyism in school and the wider society
Liberty Hall after Garvey: Education, self-repair and community development
The African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica and the Jamaica Memory Bank
The Caribbean and Africa: making connections in scholarship and activism.
Send submissions for individual papers and panels by April 30, 2013 to Maziki Thame, email:
[email protected]. Acceptances should be advised by May 30, 2013. Abstracts
should be approximately 150 words. They should include title of proposed paper, presenter’s
/presenters’ name(s), position(s), institutional and departmental affiliation (if any).
98th Annual ASALH Convention
At the Crossroads of Freedom and Equality: The Emancipation Proclamation and the March on
Washington
October 2-6, 2013
Hyatt Riverfront - Jacksonville, Florida
2013 CALL FOR PAPERS
The year 2013 marks two important anniversaries in the history of African Americans and the United
States. On January 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation set the United States on the path of ending
slavery. A wartime measure issued by President Abraham Lincoln, the proclamation freed relatively few
slaves, but it fueled the fire of the enslaved to strike for their freedom. In many respects, Lincoln’s
declaration simply acknowledged the epidemic of black self-emancipation – spread by black freedom
crusaders like Harriet Tubman – that already had commenced beyond his control. Those in bondage
increasingly streamed into the camps of the Union Army, reclaiming and asserting self-determination.
The result, abolitionist Fredrick Douglass predicted, was that the war for the Union became a war
against slavery. The actions of both Lincoln and the slaves made clear that the Civil War was in deed, as
well as in theory, a struggle between the forces of slavery and emancipa tion. The full-scale
dismantlement of the “peculiar institution” of human bondage had begun.
In 1963, a century later, America once again stood at the crossroads.
Nine years earlier, the U.S. Supreme Court had outlawed racial segregation in public schools, but the
nation had not yet committed itself to equality of citizenship. Segregation and innumerable other forms
of discrimination made second‐class citizenship the extra‐constitutional status of non‐whites. Another
American president caught in the gale of racial change, John F. Kennedy, temporized over the legal and
moral issue of his time. Like Lincoln before him, national concerns, and the growing momentum of black
mass mobilization efforts, overrode his personal ambivalence toward demands for black civil rights. On
August 28, 1963, hundreds of thousands of Americans, blacks and whites, Jews and gentiles, Protestants
and Catholics, marched to the memorial of Abraham Lincoln, the author of the Emancipation
Proclamation, in the continuing pursuit of equality of citizenship and self-determination. It was o n this
occasion that Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his celebrated “I Have a Dream” speech. Just as the
Emancipation Proclamation had recognized the coming end of slavery, the March on Washington for
Jobs and Freedom announced that the days of legal segregation in the United States were numbered.
Marking the sesquicentennial of the Emancipation Proclamation and the 50th anniversary of the March
on Washington, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History invites papers, panels,
and roundtables on these and related topics of black emancipation, freedom, justice and equality, and
the movements that have sought to achieve these goals. Submissions may focus on the historical
periods tied to the 2013 theme, their precursors and successors, and other past and contemporary
moments across the breadth of African American history.
DEADLINE for submission of proposals: WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 2013
Click on the following link to submit a panel or a paper to the 98th Annual Convention:
http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/asalh/asalh13/ [If the link does not work cut and paste it into
your browser]
ASALH FAQ page: http://asalh.org/docs/FAQs_sheet_call_for_papers.pdf
[If the link does not work cut and paste it into your browser]
ASALH Convention page: http://asalh.org/callforpapers.html [If the link does not work cut and paste it
into your browser]
Shawn Alexander, Academic Program Committee Co-Chair [email protected]
Clarence Lang, Academic Program Committee Co-Chair [email protected]
ASALH
[email protected]
Enjoy your week!