"Voyage Sans Visa: A musical storytelling performance by Senegalese griot Boubacar Ndiaye and musicians Baye Cheikh Mbaye and Pape Ndiaye Paamath"
Speakers: Boubacar Ndiaye. Baye Cheikh Mbaye, Pape Ndiaye Paamath
Date: October 25th, 2022
Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Location: Columbia Museum of Art Theater
Affiliation: Columbia Museum of Art Theater
"Ukuphazama iNatali: Bringing Queer & Indigenous Studies History Approaches to South African History & Beyond"
Speaker: Dr. T.J. Tallie
Date: Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020
Time: 4:00pm - 5:15pm
Affiliation: Department of History, University of San Diego
"The Persistence of Slavery: An Economic History of Child Trafficking in Nigeria"
Speakers: Dr. Robin Chapdelaine, Assistant Professor
Date: March 11
Time: 11: 40am - 12:50pm
Affiliation: Department of History, Duquesne University
Recorded lecture available upon request
"Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement"
Speaker: Dr. Tiffany Florvil, Associate Professor
Date: March 23
Time: 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Affiliation: Department of History, The University of New Mexico
Co-sponsored by the Ann Johnson Institute for Science, Technology and Society
"International Social Services and Covid-19: the West African Experience"
Speaker: Dr. Olusade Taiwo
Date: March 23
Time: 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Affiliation: Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research
Co-sponsored by the USC College of Social Work
"Queer Love and Critical Resilience in Wanuri Kahiu's Rafiki"
Speaker: Lindsey Green-Simms
Affiliation: Associate Professor of Literature, American University
"Conversations on North Korean History"
Speaker: Sung Soo Lee, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto
Date: September 21, 2023
Time: 11:40 a.m. - 12:55 p.m.
Location: Virtual Event
Sponsored by the Center for Asian Studies, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
"Asian American Community Music Making with Eric Hung"
Speaker: Dr. Eric Hung
Date: Friday, March 18th, 2023
Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm
Location: Boyd Plaza (in front of the Columbia Museum of Art)
Hosted by: Transpacific Intercultural Collaboration Research Group, The Humanities Collaborative
Co-sponsored by The School of Music and the Music History Area, Peake Colloquium, The Music of Asian America Research Center
"Promoting Women in the Arts in the Digital Era"
Speaker: Dr. Colleen Laird
Date: Friday, March 24th, 2023
Time: 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: Richland Library-Main Branch Auditorium
Affiliation: Assistant Professor of Japanese Popular Culture at the University of British Columbia
Co-sponsored by the School of Visual Art and Design, Humanities Collaborative
Link : https://www.richlandlibrary.com/event/2023-03-24/promoting-women-arts-digital-era
"Swimming Back to Trout River: A Conversation with Novelist Linda Rui Feng"
Speaker: Linda Rui Feng
Date: December 8th, 2022
Time: 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Location: Richland Library-Main Branch Auditorium
Affiliation: Cultural Historian at the University of Toronto
Co-sponsored by Transpacific Intercultural Collaboration Research Group, USC Humanities Collaborative Center for Asian Studies, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
"Oceans, Gardens, and Jungles: Worldviews and the Planet"
Speaker: Dr. Prasenjit Duara
Date: October 11th, 2022
Time: 4:00pm
McKissick Museum Theater
Affiliation: Oscar Tang Chair of East Asian Studies at Duke University
Co-sponsored by History Center, Department of History, Transpacific Intercultural Collaboration Research Group, Humanities Collaborative
"Political Self-Organization in Ukraine: From Euromaidan to Russia's Invasion"
Speaker: Dr. Emily Chanell-Justice
Date: February 14th, 2023
Time: 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Location: Close-Hipp Building 8th Floor, East View Event Room
Affiliation: Director of the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
Co-sponsored by European Studies Program, Russian and Eurasian Studies Program
"Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Week: Holocaust Memory in Eastern Europe"
Speaker: Dr. Jelena Subotic, Department of Political Science at Georgia State University
Date: January 24th, 2023
Time: 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Location: Gambrell Hall, Room 429
Affiliation: Professor in the Department of Political Science at Georgia State University
"Frozen Reconciliation? Peacebuilding efforts in divided Ireland"
Speaker: Dr. Kara Dempsey
Date: January 18th, 2023
Time: 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Location: Gambrell Hall, Room 429
Affiliation: Associate Professor of Geography at Appalachian State University
Sponsored by Department of Geography
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"Well Connected: Everyday Water Practices in Cairo"
Speaker: Tessa Farmer
Date: Wednesday, March 15th, 2023
Time: 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location: Callcott Room 104
Affiliation: Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Virginia
"Staple Security: Book Talk with Jessica Barnes"
Speaker: Jessica Barnes
Date: October 28th, 2022
Time: 3:00pm
Location: Callcott Room 101
Affiliation: Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and School of Earth, Ocean, and the Environment.
"The Valley of Saints: Film Screening and Q&A with Director, Musa Syeed"
Speaker: Musa Syeed
Date: October 26th, 2022
Time: 6pm
Location: The Nickelodeon
"Teach-In about Events in Iran"
Speakers: Dr. Drucilla Barker, Dr. Farzad Salamifar, Dr. Carl Dahlman
Date: October 25th, 2022
Time: 4:00pm- 6:00pm
Location: Close-Hipp Building, Lumpkin Auditorium
"The Catholic Teacher: Teaching with Faith, Hope, and Love"
Speaker: Professor James Kirylo, Professor of Education at the University of South Carolina
Date: November 15, 2023
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Location: Gambrell Hall 429
Sponsored by Latin American, Caribbean, and US Latinx Studies Program.
"Francisca Pizarro and the Conquest of History"
Speaker: Professor Oswaldo Estrada, Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, director of the Faculty Fellows Program, and editor of Hispanófila and Palabras de América
Date: November 2, 2023
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Location: Gambrell Hall 429
Sponsored by the Spanish Program and the Latin American, Caribbean, and US Latinx Studies Program.
"Awareness, Ideology, and Assessment: Spanish in Higher Education"
Speakers: Professor Paul Malovrh, Chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, & Cultures, Associate Professor of SLA and Hispanic Linguistics, Core Faculty of the Linguistics Program University of South Carolina; Professor Nina Moreno, Associate Chair and Undergraduate Director of the Department of Languages, Literatures, & Cultures, Associate Professor of SLA and Hispanic Linguistics
Date: October 12, 2023
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Location: Thomas Cooper Library, Scholar's Corner
Sponsored by University Libraries and the Latin American, Caribbean, and US Latinx Studies Program.
"From Cesar Chavez to Shakira: The Evolution of the Latinx Community in South Carolina"
Speaker: Mr. Ivan Segura, Director of Multicultural Affairs for SC Commission for Minority Affairs
Date: September 21, 2023
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Location: Thomas Cooper Library, Scholar's Corner
Sponsored by the Latin American, Caribbean and, US Latinx Studies Program.
"Hispanics in South Carolina: Giving Voice to a Better Future"
Art display featuring Palmetto Luna's Latino Art Collection
Date: September 18 - October 13, 2023
Location: Thomas Cooper Library
Sponsored by University Libraries, the Latino and Hispanic Faculty Caucus at USC, and the Latin American, Caribbean and US Latinx Studies Program.
"Franz Boas’s in ‘Porto Rico’ (1915): Jíbaro Folk Tales and Legends"
Speaker: Dr. Rafael Ocasio, Charles A. Dana Professor and Chair of Spanish, Faculty Fellow for the Gay Johnson McDougall Center for Global Diversity and Inclusion at Agnes Scott College
Date: March 29th, 2023
Time: 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Location: Gambrell Hall, Room 429
Affiliation: Charles A. Dana Professor and Chair of Spanish and the Faculty Fellow for the Gay Johnson McDougall Center for Global Diversity and Inclusion at Agnes Scott College
Sponsored by the Latin American, Caribbean and US Latinx Studies Program and the Department
of Languages,
Literatures, and Cultures
"Being a Daughter of the South Defines Me...and My Research: Honest Storytelling, Transparent Ethnography, and Case Examples from Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Health"
Speaker: Sedra "Amy" Snipes, Associate Professor of Biobehavioral Health at The Pennsylvania State University
Date: February 24th, 2023
Time: 2:00pm
Location: Close-Hipp Building, Room 401
Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, The Walker Institute, Latin American, Caribbean, & US Latinx Studies Program, Department of African American Studies
"Ideology and the Struggle over Memor: Brizuela's Una misma noche"
Speaker: Dr. Greg Dawes
Date: February 14th, 2023
Time: 4:30pm -5:30pm
Location: Gambrell Hall, Room 429
Affiliation: Distinguished Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at North Carolina State University
Sponsored by the Latin American, Caribbean and US Latinx Studies Program and the Department
of Languages,
Literatures, and Cultures
"Engaging Locally & Transnationally with SC Centro Latino through the Multilingual Public Humanities"
Speaker: Dr. Araceli Hernandez-Laroche
Date: January 26th, 2023
Time: 4:30pm
Location: Gambrell Hall, Room 429
Affiliation: Director of South Carolina Centro Latino, Professor of Modern Languages and Coordinator of French Global Studies at USC Upstate
Sponsored by the Latin American, Caribbean and US Latinx Studies Program/Latino and
Hispanic Faculty
Caucus
"Religion in Latin America"
Speakers: Dr. Rebecca Janzen, Dr. Jorge Camacho
Date: November 2nd, 2022
Time: 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: Gambrell 429
Sponsored by Latin American Studies Program, US Latinx Studies Program
"Slaves who write? Auto-Representation of Enslaved People in Slavery"
Speaker: Dr. Michael Zeuske
Date: October 12th, 2022
Time: 3:30pm (Zoom)
Affiliation: Professor of Latin American and Iberian History at the University of Köln (Cologne), Germany
Sponsored by Latin American Studies Program
"Digitizing Ancestral Memory: Garifuna Settlement Day in the Americas and in Cyberspace"
Speaker: Paul Joseph López Oro
Instructor: Dr. Sherina Feliciano-Santos
Date: March 15
Virtual class visit to ANTH 271 - Language and Popular Culture
Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Smith College
"Great Effervescence: Jewishness and Indigeneity in Mesoamerican Fiction"
Speaker: Stephanie Pidgeon
Date: March 25
Time: 1:30pm
Affiliation: Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies, Bates College
Co-sponsored with Jewish Studies and Film and Media Studies
"Revolutionary Visions: Jewish Life and Politics in Latin American Film"
Speaker: Stephanie Pidgeon
Instructor: Dr. Rebecca Janzen
Date: March 25
Virtual class visit to SPAN 575/SPAN 783
Affiliation: Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies, Bates College
"Trajectory of the Russia-Ukraine war and how it matters for the rest of the world"
Speaker: Dr. Volodymyr Dubovyk, Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University (Ukraine)
Date: April 18th, 2023
Time: 11:30am - 12:45pm
Location: Gambrell Hall, Room 429
Sponsored by Russian and Eurasian Studies Program
"'A Decolonizing Moment of Sorts': Who in Central Eastern Europe Supports Ukraine and Why"
Speaker: Dr. Dovilė Budrytė
Date: April 13, 2023
Time: 4:00pm -5:00pm
Location: Gambrell Hall, Room 429
Sponsored by Russian and Eurasian Studies Program
"A Year of Reporting on the War in Ukraine"
Speaker: Isabelle Khurshudyan
Date: March 14th, 2023
Time: 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Location: Close-Hipp Blgd. East View Room, 8th Floor
Affiliation: Ukraine Bureau Chief, The Washington Post
Sponsored by Russian and Eurasian Studies Program, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
"Political Self-Organization in Ukraine: From Euromaidan to Russia's Invasion"
Speaker: Dr. Emily Chanell-Justice, Director of The Temerty Contemporary Research Institute, Harvard University
Date: February 14th, 2023
Time: 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Location: Close-Hipp Building 8th Floor, East View Event Room
Affiliation: Director of the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
Sponsored by Russian and Eurasian Studies Program
"Curative Mythmaking: Children's Bodies, Medical Knowledge, and the Frontier of Health in Early Soviet Odesa"
Speaker: Dr. Matthew Pauly
Date: January 20th, 2023
Time: 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location: Gambrell Hall, Room 429
Affiliation: Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University