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May 2014
Labor and Social Protection in Contemporary Brazil
Brazil seems to have challenged the assumption that a decrease in worker benefits and social services necessarily accompanies an increase in flexibility in labor markets. In her presentation, Nadya Araujo Guimarães (University of São Paulo) will explore this contradictory process.
Find out more »Volleyball on the Quad
Students, faculty, and staff are invited to play in one of Brazil's favorite games, volleyball. Free t-shirts for winning teams on the competitive challenge net court.
Find out more »Working with Fear
This talk explores the ongoing work of emancipation as members of the rural underclass in southern Bahia, Brazil's cacao-growing lands critically engage various dimensions of their own lives in order to transform what and who they are. It focuses on the work that people do with “fear” as they confront received social categories like “authority” and “respect.”
Find out more »Birds, Barber, Brazil!
The Queens College Vocal Ensemble, James John, conductor, presents a program of music spanning five centuries, including works by French Renaissance composer Clément Janequin, 20th century American composer Samuel Barber, and current QC graduate students in composition, as well as new arrangements by QC alumnus Richard Boukas of Brazilian composers Ernesto Nazareth and Sérgio Santos.
Find out more »Flushing’s Role in the Atlantic Trade in People and Agricultural Commodities
James Moore (Anthropology, Queens College) will be the speaker for this lecture, held in conjunction with the Abdias Nascimento exhibit.
Find out more »Capoeira Demonstration
On Monday, May 12, 2014, from 3:20pm – 4:20pm, students participating in Prof. Saman Dashti (Macaco) Capoiera course will give a demonstration on the Quad by the Favela installation next to Rosenthal Library.
Find out more »Styling at the Afro Spot
Black Gods, Black Aesthetics
Christopher Winks (Comparative Literature, Queens College) will be the speaker for this lecture, held in conjunction with the Abdias Nascimento exhibit.
Find out more »Out of Africa and Back In
Abdias Nascimento, the African Diaspora, and Quilombismo
Vania Penha Lopes (Bloomfield College) will be the speaker for this lecture, held in conjunction with the Abdias Nascimento exhibit.
Find out more »Invisible Pharmacies
Queens' Botánicas and the Informal Economy of Healing
Anahí Viladrich (Sociology, Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center) will give a paper on her work with botánica stores in Elmhurst, Corona, and Jackson Heights which provide religious articles to practitioners of Santería, a sister religion to Candomblé. This lecture is held in conjunction with the Abdias Nascimento exhibition.
Find out more »June 2014
Political Resistance, Art and the Sacred
This event will feature speakers Amilcar Maceo Priestley, Esq., Director, Proyecto Afrolatin@; John Collins, Prof. and Director, Latin American and Latino Studies at Queens College and Marta Moreno Vega, Founder and President, Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, East Harlem and Co-director, Hunter College, Global Afro-Latino and Caribbean Initiative. This lecture will be held at Aaron Davis Hall, City College of New York, in conjunction with a special exhibit of artwork, Abdias Nascimento: Artist, Activist, Author, April 28 – June 21 at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum (405 Klapper Hall).
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