(Unless otherwise noted, all regular events take place on Tuesdays at 7pm. Lectures and panels take place in Rittenberg Lounge and all films are screened in McCook Auditorium)
Sept. 8 Inaugural Dinner with all faculty and students involved. Guest speaker. (Smith House, Reese Room)
Sept. 15 Panel #1 Student Host: Bryna McConarty '99
- Cheryl Greenberg, History Department, "The Importance of Diaspora in Recent African American and Jewish American Thought."
Drew Hyland, Philosophy, "Go With The Flow: Sport and the Migration of Experience."
Maurice Wade, Philosophy Department, "Race, the African Diaspora, and the Creation of an African-American Subjectivity"
Sept. 22 Film #1
"Le The au Harem d'Archi Ahmed" (Tea in the Harem). Student Host: David Pitts '99
Oct. 6 Panel #2 Student Host: Julianna Bogdanski '99
- John Alcorn, Italian Studies, "The Great Migration from Italy to America, 1900-1922"
Sonia Lee, Modern Languages, "The Literature of Emigration in France: The Case of the Algerians and Particularly the Generation Known as the Beurs"
Beth Quitslund, English, "The Lord's Song in a Strange Land: Millenialism and Exile in 17th Century New England"
Oct. 13 Special Reading Week Community Panel Student Host: Tonya Ayow '01
- Lise Waxer, Music, "Music Matters- Musical Expression in the Experience of Migratory and Diasporic Processes" (Venue: Charter Oak Cultural Center)
Oct. 20 Film #2 Student Host: Elisabeth Okrant '99
"The Long Way Home" English, 1997, Mark Jonathan Harris.
Oct. 27 Panel #3 Student Host: Elisabeth Okrant '99
- Sam Kassow, History, "Diaspora Nationalism in Modern Jewish History"
Dori Katz, Modern Languages, "Stranger in a Strange Land: a Poetry Reading about the Immigration Experience"
Levana Polate, Modern Languages, "Dream and Reality of Immigrants in Israel"
Nov. 3 Film #3 Student Host: Rocio Herrera '99
"Reise der Hoffnung" (Journey of Hope). Turkish/German, 1990, Xavier Koller.
Nov. 10 Panel #4 Student Host: Karen von Hardenberg '00
- Thomas Harrington, Modern Languages, "The Diasporic Communities of America and the (Re)Emergence of the Non-Castilian Cultural Systems of the Iberian Peninsula"
Helen Raisz, Sociology, "Leavers and Stayers: The Hungarian Example"
Brigitte Schulz, Political Science, "Germany, the EU, and East-West Migration in the Post-Cold War Era"
Nov. 17 Film #4 Student Host: "La Voz Latina" Students
"Manos a la Obra" (Operation Bootstrap). Spanish, 1997, Vincente Escriva (I).
Dec. 1 Panel #5 Student Host: Rocio Herrera '99
- David Cruz-Uribe, Mathematics, "Migration and the origins of American Mathematics"
Judy Moran, Mathematics, "Cultural Manifestations of Mathematical Patterns: From Moorish Ornament to Escher's Prints"
Dec. 8 Student Panel (7pm in the Smith House)
(Unless otherwise noted, all regular events take place on Tuesdays at 7pm. Lectures and panels take place in Rittenberg Lounge and all films are screened in McCook Auditorium)
Jan. 26 Panel #1 Student Host: Robert McDonald '99
- Leslie Desmangles, Religion, "Continuity and Change: The State of Caribbean Religions in the Diaspora"
Luis Figueroa, History: "Gray Images and Memory: Fleeting Moments of Puerto Rican Diasporic Experiences in Hartford, 1960s-1990s"
Dario Euraque, History, "Honduran Migration to the United States and Representations of National Identity in Cyberspace"
Feb. 2 Film #1 Student Host: Richard Walker '99
"El Norte" (The North). Spanish, 1983, Gregory Nava.
Feb. 9 Panel #2 Student Host: Asian and American Student Alliance
- Michael Lestz, History Department, "Swamped: The Indigenous Peoples of South Taiwan & the Chinese Diaspora"
Vijay Prashad, International Studies, "Coolie Purana: the 1913-16 rebellion against indenture in the Indian diaspora"
King-Fai Tam, Modern Languages, "Chinese Diasporic Memoirs"
Feb. 16 Panel #3 Student Host: James Conant '99
- George Abdelnour, Modern Languages, "The Spanish Moriscos: From Christian Reconquest to Diaspora"
Jonathan Elukin, History, "Writing Diasporas: Interpretations of the Expulsion of Jews from Spain"
Helen Lang, Philosophy, "Diaspora: Preservation or Transformation of Greek Philosophy and Science"
Feb. 23 Special Reading Week Film #2 Student Host: Wojciech Pirog '99
"Comrade. Almost a Love Story" Cantonese/Mandarin/English, 1997, Kexin Chen.
Mar. 2 Panel #4 Student Host: Mike McGrath '99
- Richard Prigodich, Chemistry, "The Origin and Global Spread of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus."
Craig Schneider, Biology, "The Ecological Consequences of the Not-So-Naked Ape"
Sarah Raskin, Psychology, "Healthcare Issues Among Migrant Workers in the United States."
Mar. 9 Film #3 Student Host: Bryna McConarty '99
Segell ikhtifa" (Chronicle of a Disappearance). Arabic/Hebrew, 1996, Elia Suleiman.
Mar. 23 Panel #5 Student Host: Chester Sharp '99
- Clinton Bailey, Political Science, "Bedouins: Between Tribe and Nation"
Steven Blackburn, Modern Languages, "Islam in Dispersion"
Apr. 6 Panel #6 Student Host: Wojciech Pirog '99
Janet Bauer, International Studies, "Dislocating Migrations: Iranian Women 'Arranging' Gender and Community in Exile"
Michael Niemann, International Studies, "My Home Is Not Here: Labor Migration in Post-Apartheid Southern Africa"
Gary Reger, History, "The Greeks of Asia Minor: Constructing a Diaspora in the Modern World"
Apr. 13 Film #4 Student Host: Margaret Cleveland '99
"America, America" English, 1963, Elia Kazan.
Apr. 20 Panel #7 Student Host: Nina Brox '99
- Johannes Evelein, Modern Languages, "Driven into Exile: German Writers in the United States, 1933-1945"
Andrew Walsh, American Studies, "Made by Migration: The Formative Impact of Waves of Migration on Hartford and its Peoples"
Apr. 27 Student Panel (Smith House 7 pm)
Students of College Course 135 will be presenting their independent study projects.