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Posted: October 2, 2007
Speaker: Nicole Childers, NPR Executive Producer, News & Notes
Date: Thursday, October 4, 2007
Time: 2:00 PM
Place: Matheson Hall Room 412
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Women's Studies Film Festival 2007 |
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| Date: |
January 26 - March 16, 2007 |
| Features: |
Screening of North Country, The Color Purple, Chaos and Gabbeh. |
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Title: |
My Children! My Africa! |
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| Speaker: |
Athol Eugard |
| Date: |
December 12, 2006 |
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Athol Eugard confronts the tragedy of apartheid in his native land of South Africa in this compelling and
hopeful tale. |
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Title: |
Africana Studies Fall Film Festival |
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| Date: |
November 13 — December 8, 2006 |
| Features: |
Screenings of Hustle and Flow, Tsotsi and Madea's Family Reunion. |
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Title: |
Dr. Cheryl D. Hicks |
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| Speaker: |
Dr. Cheryl D. Hicks |
| Date: |
May 8, 2006 |
| Features: |
Dr. Cheryl D. Hicks is an assistant professor of History at Williams College. She will discuss race, respectability and murder in early 20th century New York. |
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Title: |
NO! Film Showing and Discussion |
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| Speaker: |
Aishah Simmons |
| Date: |
April 20, 2006 |
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NO!, a feature-length documentary by filmmaker Aishah Simmons, unveils the reality of rape, and other forms of
sexual violence, and healing in African American communities. |
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Title: |
Percival Everett Reading and Discussion |
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| Speaker: |
Percival Everett |
| Date: |
February 16, 2006 |
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Celebrate Black History Month with the University Writing Program, the Pennoni Honors College, the
Department of Africana Studies, and the Office of the Senior Vice President of Finance.
Author Percival Everett grew up in South Carolina and attended the University of Miami and the
University of Oregon, where he did graduate work in philosophy. He has an MFA in writing from Brown University and has published 15 books. He is the recipient of an Academy Award for Literature, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and a Lila Wallace Fellowship, among others. He is a professor of English at the University of Southern California. |
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Title: |
Women's Studies Film Festival |
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| Date: |
January 27 - March 10, 2006 |
| Features: |
Screenings of Whale Rider, Eve's Bayou, Moolaade and Bend it Like Beckam. |
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| Title: |
The Face of Slavery: The Historic Margaret Garner |
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| Speaker: |
Dr. Kali Gross |
| Date: |
January 11, 2006 |
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Discussion about the riveting history behind Margaret's story: life on Maplewood Plantation, the political chess match that surrounded Margaret post-capture, her fight for freedom, and her heartbreakingly tragic end. |
| Title: |
Africana Studies Fall Film Festival |
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| Dates: |
November 11 — December 9, 2005 |
| Features: |
Screenings of Crash, Maria Full of Grace, Hotel Rwanda, and Mad Hot Ballroom |
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| Title: |
Multicultural Student Awareness Week |
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| Dates: |
May 16 — May 21, 2005 |
| Features: |
•Cultural Show/Open Mic
•Clothing, Penny, and Food Drive
•Food Festival
•NABA Bowl (Flag Football)
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| More Info: |
MSAW Website |
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| Title: |
Urban Youth Against HIV/AIDS: Bridging the Gap Locally, Nationally and Globally |
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| Topics: |
• Transmission
• Prevention
• Living with HIV/AIDS
• Fighting HIV/AIDs Globally |
| Features: |
• Onsite Testing
• Information Booths
• Peer Education |
| Date: |
April 23, 2005 |
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| Title: |
Slavery's Shadows: Responding to Racism in the Antebellum North, Harriet Wilson and Our Nig |
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| Speakers: |
P. Gabrielle Foreman,
Reginald H. Pitts |
| Date: |
February 22, 2005 |
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| Title: |
Ready For the Revolution: The Legacy of Kwame Toure |
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| Speaker: |
Ekwueme Michael Thelwell |
| Date: |
February 11, 2005 |
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| Title: |
Fall 2004 Film Series |
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| Films: |
• City of God
• Life and Debt
• Dirty Pretty Things
• Long Night's Journey Into Day
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| Dates: |
Nov 12 — Dec 10, 2004 |
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