LACS Carnival Week 2019: Routes
to Roots. March 25-29.
Join the Latin American and
Caribbean Studies Program in celebrating the many ways the region's people define
themselves by reclaiming and identifying with their ancestral pasts to
safeguard their futures. This year, we offer thirteen events from the
perspectives of Sociology, Music, Martial arts, Political Science, the law,
Geography, Geology, Literature, Theater, and American Studies.
And of course, every day for
lunch in Tillinghast's Flynn Dining Hall, there will be regional dishes served
at the international station: Monday is El Salvador, Tuesday is Colombia,
Wednesday is Bonaire, Thursday is the USVI, and Friday is French Guiana. New
this year, spotify playlists put together by LACS students celebrating
that day's national music will be playing in the dining hall, and poster boards
they've created about each country will be on display.
All events are open to the BSU community and the
public. Faculty are welcome to bring their classes.
Monday March 25
10:10-11 a.m.,
DMF Auditorium
Race and
Ethno-National Politics in the Dominican Republic-- Lecture by Danilo Antonio Contreras, College of the Holy Cross
3:20-4:35 p.m.,
DMF Auditorium
High Mas: Carnival and the Poetics of Caribbean Culture-- Keynote Lecture by Kevin Adonis
Browne, photographer and poet
Tuesday March 26
9:30-10:45 a.m., RCC
Ballroom
Cape Cod
Capoeira – Interactive Demonstration & Class
11 a.m.-12:15 p.m.,
Moakley Center Auditorium
Hurricane Routes and Roots-- Lecture by Christine
Brandon, Geological Sciences, BSU
12:30-1:45 p.m.,
RCC Ballroom
Tour Giant Maps
of the Americas with Dr. James Hayes-Bohanan and Dr. Vernon Domingo of
Geography
2-4:40 pm, DMF
Auditorium
Undergraduate
Research Showcase: Presentations for Caribbean Studies Association Conference, Santa
Marta, Colombia
Wednesday March
27
11:15 am - 12:05
pm, Burnell 132B
Carnival and Political Consciousness in Haiti: From Boukman
Eksperayns to Brothers Posse--Lecture by Jean Eddy Saint Paul, Founding Director, CUNY
Haitian Studies Institute, Brooklyn College
12:20-1:35 pm, RCC
Ballroom
The U.S. Immigration Crisis--Lecture by Joan Mathieu, Immigration Attorney
1:50-3:05 pm, RCC
Ballroom
Calypso
Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination--Lecture by Sara Phillips Casteel, Carleton University
Thursday March
28
11 am-12:15 pm,
Weygand 1047
Waves
of Immigration: The Haitian Community in Greater Boston--Lecture by Castagna
Lacet, School of Social Work, BSU
12:30 - 1:45 pm,
Weygand 1047
Student Reading: In
the Time of the Butterflies, a play by Caridad Svich--Dr. Colleen Rua,
Director
Friday March 29
9:05-9:55 am,
Heritage Room
Migrations,
Memories. Argentina and Peru in Alicia Mabel
Partnoy’s 1986-98 The Little School, and Maria Arana’s 2001 American Chica--Lecture by Alejandro Latinez, Global Languages and Literatures,
BSU
10:10-11 am,
Heritage Room
Nuevo South: Latinas/os, Asians, and the
Remaking of Place--Lecture by Perla Guerrero,
University of Maryland
Presented by the Latin American & Caribbean Studies
Program. For more information, please contact LACS Coordinator Dr. Allyson
Ferrante: aferrante@bridgew.edu or 508-531-2440.