IRAAS Conversations Lecture Series- Graduate Scholar Presentations
Friday May 9th, 2008 at 4:00pm
Room 754 Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia Univ.-Morningside Campus
"Hip Hop, (Homo) Sexuality and Politics: A Black Studies Project"
Michael D. Collins, MA-African-American Studies
"Loren Holland: Black Magic Woman".
Kiana N. Cornish, MA-African-American Studies
From Death to Life: The Development of Christian AIDS Ministries in Harlem"
Carol Lautier-Woodley, MA-African-American Studies
"Days That Were Pages of Suppressed Hysteria: Enactment of Psychic Trauma through Musico-Linguistic Trembling"
Kyessa L Moore, MA-African-American Studies
"A War on Queens: Criminalizing Black Women in America"
Tamika Y. Nunley, MA-African-American Studies
To reach Schermerhorn Extension easily, come to the 119th street & Amsterdam Avenue Garage Gate. Past the security guard on your left is a glass door that leads into Schermerhorn Extension.
Come down the hall & take the elevator to the 7th floor.
Directions
For on-campus direction please access Columbia's convenient campus map page
http://www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/map/
To reach Columbia University via public transportation 4 bus lines (M4, M11, M60, and M104) and one subway line (the #1 local train) serve the Columbia neighborhood. The Columbia stop on all these modes of transport is 116th Street & Broadway, except the M11 bus which stops at 116th street & Amsterdam Avenue
Past Conversations This Spring
Friday, May 2 - Graduate Student Presentation
Kellie Jackson - PhD Candidate, History - Columbia Univeristy
Topic: "Force & Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence."
Victoria Geduld - PhD Candidate - Columbia University
TOPIC: Sahdji, An African Ballet (1931): Modernism, the Harlem Renaissance and the Myth of the Diva
Friday, Feb 29
Professor Carla Shedd, Columbia University
TOPIC: Race, Place, and Youth Perceptions of Social and Criminal Injustice
Friday, March 7
Professor Obery M. Hendricks
New York Theological Seminary
TOPIC: "The Politics of Jesus: Revolutionary or Reactionary?"
Friday, March 28
Professor Jason C. Parker, Texas A & M University
TOPIC: Brother's Keeper? The 'Harlem Nexus, the United States and the End of Empire in the West Indies"
Friday, April 25
Professor Margo Jefferson, Columbia University School of the Arts
TOPIC: RACE: Composition & Improvisation
Friday, April 11
LeShane Lindsey, RWDSU Retail Wholesale Department Store Union
TOPIC: "From Slavery To Minimum Wage: The Struggle of Workers in Ethnic Retail Zones in New York City"
