Stone Center Events
Events
Global Perspectives: Haitian Migration and the Thorny Politics of Language in the Dominican Republic
The island of Hispaniola, in the middle of the Caribbean basin, is one of only a handful of islands in the world that is shared by two independent nations with distinct official languages. Haiti, in the west, speaks Haitian Creole, and in the…
Matthew Rarey, Associate Professor of African and Black Atlantic Art History at Oberlin College, looks at a unique work of Black Atlantic visual culture: the map of Buraco do Tatú, a quilombo (primarily African-populated maroon polity) invaded…
This is a Central American Politics Consortium (CAPC) Virtual Conversation featuring:
• Luciana Chamorro (WCED Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan)
• Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez (Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard University)
• Constantino Urcuyo (…
Dr. Stephanie Colin, Lead Crimmigration Advocate and Limited English Proficiency Coordinator with the Orleans Public Defenders Office, will do a talk about her work with Central American migrants in the LAST 3010-01 class. Dr. Colin works directly…
Interested in Haitian Literature and Film? The Department of French and Italian is hosting a book club this fall! All are welcome and texts can be read in French or in English. No grades, no stress, just an opportunity to get together a few times…
What are the stories we choose to tell about the places we belong to and the families we came from? What will we remember, and what will be forgotten? This collection of documentary shorts explores permanence, and the importance of finding…
The Roman city of Pompeii, utterly destroyed by the volcano Mt. Vesuvius in 79 CE, has long occupied a privileged place in modern imaginings of the Roman past. Beyond the city’s well-known monuments, however, lies a well of data that has barely…
This paper sketches a new project attempting to renew the history of extraction in the Americas broadly speaking from pre-Columbian to recent times, addressing how minerals have been conceived of differently across time and how 'mining metabolisms'…
The event will be in Spanish.En sus modos de dar cuenta del avance extractivista, el despojo territorial y el exterminio del mundo ayoreo, La memoria del monte (2018) y EAMI (2022), de la directora paraguaya Paz Encina, proponen una…
Bilingual and Spanish-speaking families engage in this recurring free evening of activities for the whole family. Each date will feature a unique activity or game, snacks, and book giveaway door prizes. In addition, Americas Award books will be…
