Thursday, September 11, 2003 W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture Series Rethinking Souls of the Black Folk: Celebration, Content, and Context" 1:00 p.m. Johnston Hall (Middletown campus) 7:30 p.m. Hall Auditorium (Oxford campus) Co-sponsored by the Black World Studies Program and the Division of Student Affairs.

Manning Marable, professor and director of the African-American Studies Program at Columbia University, specializes in African-American history. He received his B.A. from Earlham College in 1971 and his Ph.D. from University of Maryland in 1976. His published works include Black Liberation in Conservative America (1997), Speaking Truth to Power: Essays on Race, Radicalism and Resistance (1996), Beyond Black and White (1995), The Crisis of Color and Democracy (1992), and Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945–1990 (1991). His forthcoming books for 1998 include Black Leadership: Ideology, Politics and Culture in African-American History, What Black America Thinks: Race, Ideology, and Political Power, and, co-edited with Leith Mullings, African American Thought.

To learn more about Dr. Marable please visit our Resources 2001 page.

John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies, Dr. Gilkes is also Director of African-American Studies Program at Colby College and assistant pastor of Union Baptist Church in Cambridge, Mass. Her work includes research in African-American religious history; race and ethnicity in the U.S.; comparative race relations; African-American women and social change; the sociology of religion; social problems and public policy. Recent publications include: “If It Wasn’t for the Women…”: Black Women’s Experience and Womanist Culture in Church and Community (2001); “The Sanctified Church and the Color Line: Reorganization, Social Change, and the African American Religious Experience” in Religion in a Changing World, Cousineau, ed. (1998); “The Margin as the Center of a Theory of History: African American Women, Social Change, and the Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois” in W. E. B. Du Bois on Race and Culture: Philosophy, Politics, and Poetics, Bell, Grosholz, and Stewart, eds. (1996).

Friday, September 12, 2003 3 :30 p.m. Oxford Uptown Parks Rain location: Withrow Court (Oxford campus) An unforgettable opening event! An opportunity to enjoy Capoeira Angola workshops, movement and music. The group will be performing a Roda, and will offer workshops for children. Co-sponsored by Center for American and World Cultures, City of Oxford, Division of Student Affairs.

Grupo Acupe is dedicated to teaching the art of Capoeira Angola. Capoeira Angola is a cultural art form from Brazil which incorporates aspects of music, dance, martial arts, and gymnastics. Our teacher, Contra Mestre Iuri Hart Santos is from Salvador, Bahia and was raised in the cultures and traditions of Capoeira. Iuri has been teaching Capoeira in Indiana for over 4 years.

Source: Grupo Acupe's Website

Friday, September 12, 2003 5:30 Oxford Uptown Parks Rain location: Withrow Court (Oxford campus)

Sumakta is a group of musicians from Ecuador that brings you the spirit and energy of the Andes Mountains and magically transports you there through music played with unique and traditional instruments, so you can feel the ancient and present culture of the Inca Nation.

Friday, September 12, 2003 Latin Dance Party 7:00-11:00 p.m. Oxford Uptown Parks Rain location: Withrow Court (Oxford campus) Enjoy the beat of salsa! Professional Latin dance instructor, Salsa dance demonstrations, live music. Be the star of the night, there will be a dance contest with trophies for the winners! Co-sponsored by Center for American and World Cultures, City of Oxford, Division of Student Affairs.

Salsa Caliente! was formed in January 2001 by two friends with a passion for Latin music. Barry Miller, whose family is from Honduras, grew up in Tampa's Latin quarter, Ybor City, where he developed a passion for Latin-Caribbean music. Wilfredo Agosto played in Latin bands in Puerto Rico and Florida before moving to Cincinnati where he founded Orquesta Tempo. When the two first met in October 2000 they began to talk about forming an exciting new Latin band and within two months their idea became a reality. On February 23, 2001, Salsa Caliente! debuted to an SRO audience at the 20th Century Theater!

Source:http://www.salsa-caliente.com

Ms. Clara Inés Sánchez Arciniegas is a professor at the Universidad Externado de Colombia, School of Hotel and Tourism Management. She has worked extensively in the area of culture and tourism, for the private as well as the public sectors in Colombia. She is an expert in the subject of cultural and intellectual patrimony in Colombia. She has experience in the production of specialized publications, including tourism guides and text books. She has worked in tourism promotion projects with the Bogotá Mayor’s Office, Secretary of Culture (Ministerio de Cultura, República de Colombia), and the Colombian Tourism Promotion Fund (Fondo de Promoción Turística de Colombia). She has written tourism guides for most Colombian cities. She is the author of Patrimonio cultural y desarrollo turístico sostenible (Cultural Patrimony and Sustainable Tourism Development) in Patrimonio cultural y desarrollo sostenible (Cultural Patrimony and Sustainable Development), and Patrimonio cultural y turismo ético en América Latina y Colombia (Cultural Patrimony and Ethical Tourism in Latin America and Colombia).

The English Department at Miami University is proud to announce the first Marjorie Cook Poetry Festival & Conference.

In conjunction with the Marjorie Cook Poetry Festival of readings by nationally prominent African American poets, Miami University's creative writing program will host a conference on "Diversity in African American Poetry."

In a recent panel discussion regarding "What's African American about African American Poetry," poet-scholar Harryette Mullen warned: "In our anxiety to embody or represent authentic black identity, we may impoverish our cultural heritage and simplify the complexity of our historical experience. As poets and as people of African descent, we are in danger of only performing blackness, rather than exploring the infinite permutations of our lived experience and creative imagination as black people." Surveying the flourishing poetic landscape, we conclude that many American poets of African descent have negotiated such dangers successfully. All of the most visible schools of contemporary poetic practice include distinguished African-American poets. There are also many successful African American poets whose work does not fit easily within any of the categories by which American poetry has been sorted by critics and publicists. Our conference seeks to explore the complex variety of experiences, expressions, experiments, and influences represented in "African American poetry" and thus prevent this overarching category from obscuring the stylistic diversity of individual artists or imposing an identity politics upon those who may prefer to define their writing according to other criteria. Papers and panels that will help us foster an appreciation of diversity in African American poetry are welcome.

Cuban-born American novelist and journalist Cristina García established a reputation as an important new voice in Latin American literature with her debut novel Dreaming in Cuban (1992), in which she explores the displacement of personal and cultural identity of Cuban émigrés. Dreaming in Cuban, which was nominated for a National Book Award, chronicles the irrevocable effects of the Cuban revolution on the del Pino family from the 1930s to the early 1980s. García's second novel, The Agüero Sisters (1997), continues her exploration of the fracturing of identity and the quest for what constitutes Cuban-ness. Her latest novel, Monkey Hunting (2003), explores Cuban-Chinese identity, immigrant life, and the way family history evolves in a multicultural Cuba.

Arturo Arias is Director of Latin American Studies at the University of Redlands. Co-writer for the screenplay for the film El Norte (1984), his most recent novel in English is titled After the Bombs (Curbstone Press, 1990). Author of five novels in Spanish: Despues de las bombas (1979), Itzam Na (1981), Jaguar en Llamas (1989), Los caminos de Paxil (1991) and Cascabel (1998), and winner of the Casa de las Americas Prize and the Anna Seghers Scholarship for two of them, he is a specialist on ethnic issues and subaltern identity, a subject that is a central theme in both his fiction and his academic work. In 1998 he published two books of literary criticism, one on Guatemalan 20th Century fiction, La identidad de la palabra (The Identity of the Word), and another one on contemporary Central American fiction, Gestos Ceremoniales (Ceremonial Gestures). He has finished a new novel in Spanish, Sopa de caracol, and in 2001 published a critical edition of Miguel Angel Asturias's Mulata, and The Rigoberta Menchú Controversy, dealing with the recent polemic about Rigoberta Menchú testimonial. He has served as President of the Latin American Studies Association for 2001-2003.

Source: http://www.curbstone.org

featuring Mr. Made Lasmawan

The term gamelan identifies music unique to Indonesia as well as a collection of instruments that consist of metallophones, tuned and untuned gongs, drums, flutes, and a stringed instrument. The English translation for gamelan is somewhat equivalent to band or orchestra. In Western culture, band can refer to a musical instrumentation, style, or genre (e.g. marching band, concert band, rock band, etc.). The Gamelan Gong Kebjar is the specific type of gamelan set purchased by Miami University consisting of 30 different instruments. It is currently the most popular type of Balinese gamelan. Miami's set of instruments have forty-year-old bronze keys and gongs which are mounted on newly carved wooden frames. The appearance of the instruments is as aesthetically appealing as the music produced.

Source: Miami University, School of Fine Arts Curriculum Guide, Spring 2003.

Glen Velez is an internationally recognized frame drummer, composer, scholar, and teacher. Velez has created his own musical style inspired by both Western percussion and frame drum performance styles from around the world. His concerts include a beautiful array of instruments such as the Egyptian riq, (a small, intricately inlaid tambourine), the Irish bodhran, (a large single-headed drum), and the North African tar (often seen in the hands of desert nomads).

Source: Glen Velez's Website.

Originally from Puerto Rico, Eguie Castrillo is an accomplished percussionist who has toured extensively around the world. Performances with Tito Puente, Arturo Sandoval, Steve Winwood, Michael Brecker, Ruben Blades, Paquito D' Rivera, Michel Camilo, KC and the Sunshine Band, Dave Valentin, Giovanni Hidalgo, and Jennifer Lopez. Recordings include Hot House, with Arturo Sandoval, The Latin Train, with Arturo Sandoval, sound track The Perez Family, for MGM, Get Down Live!, with KC and the Sunshine Band, and A GRP Celebration of the Songs of the Beatles. Currently an associate Professor at Berklee College of Music. Eguie Castrillo is endorsed by Toca Percussion.

Source: www.neemaproductions.com

Kanniks Kannikeswaran is an Engineer by education and an IT consultant (Business Intelligence) by profession. He is also a writer, musician, composer and music educator with several albums, productions and scores to his credit. His work - in Templenet as well as in other projects draws upon his technical skills, and his strong background in Indian culture and music traditions.

Source: http://www.templenet.com/Press/kanniks.html

The Cincinnati Klezmer Project was founded by pianist Dr. Josh Moss in 1995. Professor Michèle Gingras of Miami University joined as lead clarinetist in 1996. The group performs in most of the Jewish celebrations in the Cincinnati and tri-state area, and was a performing guest at the International Clarinet Association in Belgium, Indiana University, University of Denver, University of Oklahoma, Cornell University, World JamFest in Cincinnati, the Berklee Performance Center, and many others. Their CD, "Klezmer's Greatest Hits" is available after the performance or by writing to Michèle Gingras at gingram@muohio.edu.

A. Saravanan is a young talented exponent of the Tavil, percussion instrument of South India. He learned the instrument from his father Sri A. Agoram and from Sri T. R. Subramanyam. He has toured India and the Far East, accompanying many fine musicians on the classical concert stage, including appearances with the Ghatam Vidwan, Shri T. H. Vinayakram.

Source: http://www.imsom.org/events/20020502.html

PANSY CHANG, violoncellist, is presently Assistant Professor of Violoncello at Miami University of Ohio. She has performed in North America, Europe, Asia, and Israel as a soloist, chamber, and orchestral musician. She has appeared with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Chamber Music Northwest, on Bob Sherman's "Listening Room" - WQXR New York, and in both the Yale University Spectrum Series and the Yale Faculty Artist Series in New Haven. Concerto appearances include performances with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, DC, the Oregon Symphony, and many regional orchestras in the Washington, DC and Portland metropolitan areas. In 1992 Ms. Chang was awarded a Fulbright Grant for study in the United Kingdom, and was a semi-finalist in the 1993 Leonard Rose International Cello Competition. Prior to joining the Miami University music faculty, she served for two years as Assistant to Professor Aldo Parisot and Lecturer in Violoncello at Yale University School of Music, and for four years as a member of the Oregon Symphony. Ms. Chang earned her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees at the University of Southern California and Yale University School of Music, respectively, and principal teachers include Aldo Parisot, William Pleeth, Eleonore Schoenfeld, Evelyn Elsing, and Susan Kelly.

There is little doubt that jazz guitar has entered a new and exciting realm when Dan Faehnle takes the stage. With the technical prowess of a jazz giant, Ohio native Faehnle has taken the West Coast by storm since moving to the Pacific Northwest's jazz hot spot, Portland, Oregon.

From an uptempo bebop anthem to a languid, emotional reading of a ballad, Faehnle's nimble fingers caress his guitar. Whether dazzling his jazz club audiences or adding the perfect support to a recording project, this young jazz artist is destined to put his name alongside the other guitar greats.

Beginning in 2000, Faehnle stepped into the guitar chair with Diana Krall, performing on numerous world tours, television shows, radio and media events. He continues to be an integral part of the Diana Krall quartet on her current “Look of Love” world tour, receiving accolades from such publications as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, JazzTimes and Downbeat magazines, as well as many international publications.

While based in Portland, Dan established relationships with such legendary jazz artists as Leroy Vinnegar, Chuck Israels, Dave Frishberg and Dick Berk. His ongoing association with these musicians has led to numerous live performances and CD recordings. Faehnle has also worked with such noted musicians as Eddie Harris, Clark Terry, Zoot Sims, Jeff Hamilton and Rob McConnell. Other significant colleagues have been Mel Brown, Ron Steen, Nancy King, Dave Friesen and Rebecca Kilgore.

Faehnle’s recording credits begin with his own debut release, “My Ideal”, a straight ahead jazz CD which showcases Faehnle’s strength of melodic content and groove. “My Ideal” also features longtime friend and pianist Larry Fuller (now touring with Ray Brown), bassist Ed Bennett, pianist Tony Pacini, and Mel Brown on drums. Other recording credits include CDs with Leroy Vinnegar, Chuck Israels, Dave Frishberg, Rebecca Kilgore, Ben Wolfe, Dick Berk and Tom Grant. Dan also appears on the CD “Sympathique” with the popular band Pink Martini.

Influenced by bebop pioneer saxophonist Charlie Parker and such diverse guitarists as George Benson and Wes Montgomery, Faehnle displays the versatility of a well-studied artist, “but within that tradition makes a compelling, up-to-the-minute statement.”

Tuesday, October 7, 2003 "Negotiating Culture on the Border: Tijuana as a Case Study" 4:00 p.m. 46 Culler Hall (Oxford campus). Co-sponsored by the Department of Anhropology and Latin American Studies Program (LAS).

Contrary to its popular image, Tijuana is not simply a city of crime, vice, and tourist traps. Indeed, this is a city that has received international attention for its booming cultural life and for the ways that it is forging a cutting-edge identity for itself. Because of the creative ways that Tijuana has negotiated and built upon its border identity, it is the perfect example of what that area can and does contribute to the wider Mexican cultural scene. Its proximity to the United States also has
made it a rich exporter of cultural products to museums, music and arts
festivals and literary circles on the other side. In this talk, Professor Nigro will explore this diverse cultural production, explicating its relationship to the historical and political realities of Tijuana.

Adjunct Professor of African American Studies. Jean Gimbel Lane Professor of the Humanities (2000-2001). Ph.D. Yale University. Areas of interest include Nietzsche, Du Bois, critical race theory, African-American political thought, nineteenth century philosophy, existentialism, and philosophy as/and literature. Before coming to Northwestern, Gooding-Williams was George Lyman Crosby 1896 Professor of Philosophy at Amherst College. He is the author of Zarathustra's Dionysian Modernism (Stanford, 2001). He is also the editor of Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising (Routledge, 1993); editor of the Massachusetts Review special issue on Du Bois (Spring-Summer 1994); and co-editor of the Bedford Books edition of The Souls of Black Folk (1997). Gooding-Williams's essay, "Race, Multiculturalism and Democracy " (Constellations, Spring 1998), was selected for publication in the Philosopher's Annual, Volume XXI, a collection of the "ten best" articles to appear in a journal of philosophy in 1998. Another essay, "Du Bois's Counter-Sublime," was selected for inclusion in the Norton Critical Edition of The Souls of Black Folk.

The internationally-acclaimed Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit will perform the world debut of this original theatre and music performance piece on the campus of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Detroit to Dakar is based on the real-life experiences of fourteen teenagers from Mosaic who traveled this summer to Dakar, Senegal in Africa to perform and participate in a cultural exchange with the African Roots Choir. Drawn from the diaries of these teenagers, the performance piece focuses on the powerful life-changing experiences of the journey: the tears and laughter, the cultural clashes and cross-cultural connections, and the blending of music from two continents. Like past productions brought to Miami University, Detroit to Dakar will feature Mosaic’s trademark dynamic combination of high-energy dramatic performance and breathtaking musical harmonies. Mosaic’s award-winning performances have toured throughout the U.S. and to Europe, Asia and Africa.

Dr. Naidoo will reflect on his journey as a black psychologist within the context of apartheid South Africa; coming to the USA as a Fulbright scholar and completing his internship training at Miami's Student Counseling Service; and his return home to be part of the transformation of his country's divided and traumatized society. His presentation will focus on his transition as an activist at a historically black
university to being the first black professor at an historically white university and will reflect both developmental and multi-cultural narratives.

Wednesday, October 15, 2003 Service Learning Workshop (Latin American Studies Program, Department of Spanish and Portuguese) Thursday, October 16, 2003 Service Learning Workshop (Foreign Languages) Co-sponsored by Center for American and World Cultures and the Office of Service-Learning and Civic Leadership. For more information, please contact, Dr. Mary Jane Berman, Director, Center for American and World Cultures (bermanmj@muohio.edu)

Dr. David C. Julseth, during his undergraduate studies, spent a year at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain. He then completed his B.A. in International Relations and Spanish at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he also received an M.A. in Hispanic Literature and Linguistics. At the University of Texas-Austin, where he did his Ph.D. in Spanish, Dr. Julseth accompanied groups of students to Guanajuato, Mexico. His doctoral dissertation combined his love of Spain and Mexico, Art and Literature through a study of the influence of a painting by Hieronymous Bosch in Terra Nostra by the Mexican author Carlos Fuentes.

At Belmont University, Dr. Julseth enjoys organizing activities with the B.U. Spanish Club and the Casa Española. He teaches Spanish at all levels and literature courses on both Hispanic American and Peninsular themes. Lately, his professional research and study abroad programs have led him to Costa Rica, Cuba, Panama, and Argentina. Ask him about jungle safaris and Tango dancing!

Source: Belmont University's Website

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 "Multiple Maya: Multiethnicity, Mobility, and the Collapse of Maya Civilization" 4:00 -6:00 p.m. The Great Room, MacMillan Hall (Oxford campus) Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures and Lectures in Contemporary Anthropology.

The spectacular achievements of the ancient Maya in science, hieroglyphics, art, and architecture have fascinated archaeologists for over a century. Archaeological descriptions of the ancient Maya tend to treat them as relatively homogenous and immobile, despite the diversity of contemporary Maya groups across Mexico and Central America and their well-documented historical migrations. Can we see precursors to the historical diversity and mobility of the Maya in the archaeological record? The collapse of Maya civilization in the Belize Valley (ca. A.D. 800-1050) represents a period of rapid and dramatic change in
settlement, architecture, and artifacts. Many stylistic changes at this time fused exotic elements with local styles and techniques, suggesting substantial interregional interaction in a time of crisis. The Maya collapse in the Belize Valley presents an opportunity to explore contemporary issues including the politics of identity, the dynamics of population movement, identity on frontiers and boundaries, and varied models of assimilation, conflict, and sociopolitical change.

Monday, October 27, 2003 "Anti-racism, Anti-colonialism, and Social Justice Activism: Ideological Reorientation and Life Choices in Social Movement Mobilization" 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Leonard Theatre, 121 Peabody Hall (Oxford campus) Tuesday, October 28, 2003 Brown Bag Luchtime Discussion Noon - 1:00 p.m. 115 MacMillan Hall (Oxford campus) Mr. Mann will discuss his latest (2002) book, Dispatches from Durban: Firsthand Commentaries on the World Conference Against Racism and Post-September 11 Movement Strategies. To pick up your copy, please come to the Center for American and World Cultures. Please contact Dorothy Falke (falkeda@muohio.edu) or call 529-8309 to register to participate. Tuesday, October 28, 2003 "Fighting Back Against the Empire: Antiracist, Environmental Justice, and Anti-Imperialist Strategies for the 21st Century" 8:00 p.m. Hall Auditorium (Oxford campus) Book signing and sale of Mr. Mann's (2002) book, Dispatches from Durban: Firsthand Commentaries on the World Conference Against Racism and Post-September 11 Movement Strategies, following lecture. Co-sponsored by the Black World Studies Program, Center for American and World Cultures, Center for Community Engagement in Over-the-Rhine, Center for Education and Cultural Studies, Department of Educational Leadership, and Institute of Environmental Sciences.

Eric Mann is the director of the Labor/Community Strategy Center in Los Angeles. He has been a civil rights, anti-Vietnam war, labor, and environmental organizer for 35 years with the Congress of Racial Equality, the Students for a Democratic Society, the League of Revolutionary Struggle (ML), and the United Auto Workers, including eight years on auto assembly lines. He was the lead organizer of the labor/community campaign to Keep General Motors Van Nuys Open that stopped GM from closing the auto plant for ten years. He is the author of three books, Comrade George: An Investigation into the Life, Political Thought, and Assassination of George Jackson; Taking on General Motors: A Case Study of the UAW Campaign to Keep GM Van Nuys Open; and L.A.’s Lethal Air: New Strategies for Environmental Organizing. He is a founding member of the Strategy Center and of the Bus Riders Union (BRU) and sits on the BRU Planning Committee.
In recent years, he has focused on the training of a new generation of organizers, where he runs the “Organizers Exchange” at the Center’s National School for Strategic Organizing. The Center has recruited and trained more than 50 young organizers, all of whom are active in social movements, over the past 5 years. All of his work is centered on the strategy of building the “antiracist, anti-imperialist united front.” Within that strategy, he focuses on what he calls “transformative” o