Past Events
2010 Ruth First Memorial Lecture
Apr. 29, 2010
2008 Ruth First Memorial Lecture
Feb. 11, 2008
Symposium on Race and Genetics
Feb. 26, 2007
Where is the Love? Rapping about Music, Community and Society
Oct. 24, 2006
Jennifer E. Reardon
April 27, 2006
Lecture: Islam, Terrorism and Why Tolerance is Imperative
Nov. 2, 2005
Robert Carr
April 6, 2005
African Musical Traditions in the Americas
April 4, 2005
Nick Salvatore
Feb. 28, 2005
2010 Ruth First Memorial Lecture
In the Struggle, The Struggle for Whom! A Jewish woman Confronts Apartheid. Maxine Hart, anti-apartheid activist and political prisoner reflected on the struggles against apartheid, her 156 days in solitary confinement and the issues of racism, non-racism and multi-racism, as they played out in the struggle against apartheid.
2008 Ruth First Memorial Lecture
The Ambassador from South Africa, His Excellency Wilile Nhlapo spoke at Brandeis on Monday, Feb. 11, 2008 at 5:30 p.m. in Hassenfeld Conference Center, Luria 1, 2 and 3. Ambassador Nhlapo spoke on "South Africa's Time Has Come -- Achievements and Prospects." This event was free and open to the public.
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 p.m.Lecture: Islam, Terrorism and Why Tolerance is Imperative
Dr. Lansine Kaba, Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, spoke at Brandeis on Wednesday, Nov. 2 at 4:00 p.m. 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 was 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.
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 p.m. 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.
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 p.m. 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.
Nick Salvatore
C. L. Franklin and the Black Church Tradition
Shapiro Campus Center Atrium
3:30 p.m.
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 was a Martin Weiner Lecture.