Brandeis University
Speakers and Events
Symposium on Race and Genetics
February 26, 2007
Where is the Love? Rapping about Music, Community and Society
October 24, 2006
Jennifer E. Reardon
April 27, 2006Ruth First Memorial Lecture
February 11, 2008
Lecture: Islam, Terrorism and Why Tolerance is Imperative
November 2, 2005Nick Salvatore
February 28, 2005African Musical Traditions in the Americas
April 4, 2005Robert Carr
April 6, 2005Jennifer E. Reardon
Race to the Finish: Identity and Governance in an Age of Genomics. A lecture by Jennifer E. Reardon, Assistant Professor Sociology, University of California at Santa Cruz and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Women's Studies, Duke University. A Public Fund Lecture sponsored by the AAAS Department with co-sponsors: Women's Studies, Sociology and HSSP. The lecture took place on Thursday, April 27, 2006 in Golding 110 at 4:00 PM.Ruth First Memorial Lecture
The Ambassador from South Africa, His Excellency Wilile Nhlapo will speak at Brandeis on Monday, February 11, 2008 at 5:30 PM in Hassenfeld Conference Center, Luria 1, 2, & 3. Ambassador Nhlapo will speak on "South Africa's Time Has Come -- Achievements and Prospects." This event is free and open to the public.
Lecture: Islam, Terrorism and Why Tolerance is Imperative
Dr. Lansiné Kaba, Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, will speak at Brandeis on Wednesday, November 2 at 4:00 pm in the International Lounge in Usdan Student center. The Speaker is an expert on African Islam and is the winner of the Herskovitz Prize. In addition, Dr. Kaba, a graduate of The Sorbonne and former Dean of the Honors College at UIC, has been invited to speak in both Cairo and Tel Aviv on the topic of Islamic history, jihad and the hope for stability. This lecture is co-sponsored by African and Afro-American Studies, Dean of Arts and Sciences, Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. Free and open to the public
Nick Salvatore
C. L. Franklin and the Black Church Tradition
Monday, February 28, 2005Shapiro Campus Center Atrium
3:30 pm
Nick Salvatore is the Maurice and Hinda Neufeld Founders Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and professor of American Studies at Cornell. He teaches American History. He is the prize winning author of previous biographies on Eugene Debs and Amos Webber, an antebellum free man of color. Professor Salvatore's talk relates to his new biography of C. L. Franklin, Detroit minister, advisor to Martin Luther King, activist, and singer.
Sponsored by: African and Afro-American Studies, the American History Graduate Program, the International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life, Program in Religious Studies, and Sociology.
This is a Martin Weiner Lecture.
African Musical Traditions in the Americas
A lecture by Gerdes Fleurant, Associate Professor of Music, Wellesley College Illustrated by Yanvalou Drum and Dance Ensemble
Dr. Fleurant is an authority on Haitian religion and music and is an advisor to this folkloric group that performs the traditional music and dance of Africa as it exists today in Haiti and Brazil.
Monday, April 4, 2005 6:30 PM Levin Ballroom Usdan Student Center
Brought to you by the African and Afro-American Studies Department and the Caribbean Connexion in conjunction with Caribbean Week
Robert Carr
Robert Carr, Executive Director Jamaica AIDS Support Kingston, Jamaica
Presents Public Policy and HIV-AIDS in the Caribbean
Dr. Carr heads Jamaica AIDS Support in Kingston, Jamaica, and is a consultant with a special interest in the human rights implications in addressing the AIDS epidemic. He is the author of Black Nationalism in the New World: Reading the African-American and West Indian Experience
Wednesday, April 6, 2005 2:00 PM Ross-Levine Hassenfeld Conference Center
Sponsored by African and Afro-American Studies, Latin American Studies, International and Global Studies, and the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life.