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Area Studies Events

Each year the area studies programs host events. 

Voyage Sans Visa: A musical storytelling performance by Senegalese griot Boubacar Ndiaye and musicians Baye Cheikh Mbaye and Pape Ndiaye Paamath.

Name: Boubacar Ndiaye. Baye Cheikh Mbaye, Pape Ndiaye Paamath

Affiliation: Columbia Museum of Art Theater 

Date: October 25th, 2022

Time: 7-8:30pm

Columbia Museum of Art Theater 

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Ukuphazama iNatali: Bringing Queer & Indigenous Studies History Approaches to South African History & Beyond

Name: Dr. T.J. Tallie

Affiliation: Department of History, University of San Diego

Day and Date: Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020

Time: 4 - 5:15 p.m.

The Persistence of Slavery: An Economic History of Child Trafficking in Nigeria

Name: Dr. Robin Chapdelaine, Assistant Professor 

Affiliation: Department of History, Duquesne University

Date: March 11

Time: 11: 40 – 12:50 p.m.

Recorded lecture available upon request

Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement

Name: Dr. Tiffany Florvil, Associate Professor

Affiliation: Department of History, The University of New Mexico

Date: March 23

Time:3-4:30 p.m.

Co-sponsored by the Ann Johnson Institute for Science, Technology and Society

International Social Services and Covid-19: the West African Experience

Name: Dr. Olusade Taiwo

Affiliation: Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research

Date: March 23

Time: 1-2:30 p.m.

Co-sponsored by the USC College of Social Work

Queer Love and Critical Resilience in Wanuri Kahiu's Rafiki

Name: Lindsey Green-Simms, 

Affiliation: Associate Professor of Literature, American University

Franz Boas’s in ‘Porto Rico’ (1915): Jíbaro Folk Tales and Legends

Name: Dr. Rafael Ocasio

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

Date: March 29th, 2023

Time: 4:30pm-5:30pm

Gambrell Hall, Room 429

Sponsored by the Latin American, Caribbean and US Latinx Studies Program and the Department of Languages, 
Literatures, and Cultures

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Dr. Greg Dawes presents "Ideology and the Struggle over Memor: Brizuela's Una misma noche"

Name: Dr. Greg Dawes

Affiliation:  Distinguished Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at North Carolina State University

Date: February 14th, 2023

Time: 4:30pm-5:30pm

Gambrell Hall, Room 429

Sponsored by the Latin American, Caribbean and US Latinx Studies Program and the Department of Languages, 
Literatures, and Cultures

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Engaging Locally & Transnationally with SC Centro Latino through the Multilingual Public  Humanities

Name: Dr. Araceli Hernandez-Laroche

Affiliation: Director of South Carolina Centro Latino, Professor of Modern Languages and Coordinator of French Global Studies at USC Upstate

Date: January 26th, 2023

Time: 4:30pm

Gambrell Hall, Room 429

Sponsored by the Latin American, Caribbean and US
Latinx Studies Program/Latino and Hispanic Faculty
Caucus and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion

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Slaves who write? Auto-Representation of Enslaved People in Slavery 

Name: Dr. Michael Zeuske

Affiliation: Professor of Latin Amercian and Iberian History at the University of Köln (Cologne), Germany

Date: October 12th, 2022

Time: 3:30pm (Zoom)

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Sponsored by Latin American Studies Program

Digitizing Ancestral Memory: Garifuna Settlement Day in the Americas and in Cyberspace

Name: Paul Joseph López Oro

Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Smith College

Date: March 15

Virtual class visit to ANTH 271 - Language and Popular Culture

Instructor: Dr. Sherina Feliciano-Santos

Great Effervescence: Jewishness and Indigeneity in Mesoamerican Fiction

Name: Stephanie Pidgeon

Affiliation: Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies, Bates College

Date: March 25

Time: 1:30 p.m.

Co-sponsored with Jewish Studies and Film and Media Studies

Revolutionary Visions: Jewish Life and Politics in Latin American Film

Name: Stephanie Pidgeon

Affiliation: Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies, Bates College

Date: March 25

Virtual class visit to SPAN 575/SPAN 783

Instructor: Dr. Rebecca Janzen

Well Connected: Everyday Water Practices in Cairo

Name: Tessa Farmer

Affiliation: Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Viriginia

Date: Wednesday, March 15th, 2023

Time: 3:30-4:30pm

Callcott Room 104

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Staple Security: Book Talk with Jessica Barnes

Name: Jessica Barnes

Affiliation: Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and School of Earth, Ocean, and the Environment.

Date: October 28th, 2022

Time: 3:00pm

Callcott 101

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The Valley of Saints: Film Screening and Q&A with Director, Musa Syeed

Date: October 26th, 2022

Location: The Nickelodeon

Time: 6pm

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Asian American Community Music Making with Eric Hung

Name: Dr. Eric Hung

Date: Friday,  March 18th, 2023

Time: 10:00am-12:00pm

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

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Promoting Women in the Arts in the Digital Era

Name: Dr. Colleen Laird

Affiliation: Assistant Professor of Japanese Popular Culture at the University of British Columbia

Date: Friday,  March 24th, 2023

Time: 1:00-5:00pm

Richland Library-Main Branch Auditorium

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

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Swimming Back to Trout River: A Conversation with Novelist Linda Rui Feng

Name: Linda Rui Feng

Affiliation: Cultural Historian at the University of Toronto

Date: December 8th, 2022

Time: 6:00pm-7:30pm

Richland Library-Main Branch Auditorium

Co-sponsored by Transpacific Intercultural Collaboration Research Group, USC Humanities Collaborative Center for Asian Studies, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

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Oceans, Gardens, and Jungles: Worldviews and the Planet

Name: Dr. Prasenjit Duara

Affiliation: Oscar Tang Chair of East Asian Studies at Duke University

Date: October 11th, 2022

Time: 4:00pm

McKissick Museum Theater 

Co-sponsored by History Center, Department of History, Transpacific Intercultural Collaboration Research Group, Humanities Collaborative

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Political Self-Organization in Ukraine: From Euromaidan to Russia's Invasion

Name: Dr. Emily Chanell-Justice

Affiliation: Director of the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University

Date: February 14th,  2023

Time: 4:00pm-5:30pm

East View Event Room

Close-Hipp Building 8th Floor

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Co-sponsored by European Studies Program, Russian and Eurasian Studies Program

Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Week: Holocaust Memory in Eastern Europe

Name: Dr. Jelena Subotic

Affiliation: Professor in the Department of Political Science at Georgia State University

Date: January 24th,  2023

Time: 4:30-6pm

Gambrell Hall, Room 429

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 Frozen Reconciliation? Peacebuilding efforts in divided Ireland

Name: Dr. Kara Dempsey

Affiliation: Associate Professor of Geography at Appalachian State University

Date: January 18th,  2023

Time: 4:30-6pm

Gambrell Hall, Room 429

Sponsored by Department of Geography

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A Year of Reporting on the War in Ukraine

Name: Isabelle Khurshudyan

Affiliation: Ukraine Bureau Chief, The Washington Post
USC Class of 2014

Date: March 14th,  2023

Time: 6:00pm-7:30pm

Close-Hipp Blgd. East View Room, 8th Floor

Sponsored by Russian and Eurasian Studies Program, School of Journalism and Mass Communications 

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Political Self-Organization in Ukraine: From Euromaidan to Russia's Invasion

Name: Dr. Emily Chanell-Justice

Affiliation: Director of the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University

Date: February 14th,  2023

Time: 4:00pm-5:30pm

East View Event Room

Close-Hipp Building 8th Floor

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Sponsored by Russian and Eurasian Studies Program

 Curative Mythmaking: Children's Bodies, Medical Knowledge, and the Frontier of Health in Early Soviet Odesa

Name: Dr. Matthew Pauly

Affiliation: Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University

Date: January 20th,  2023

Time: 12:00-1:30pm

Gambrell Hall, Room 429

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