Symposium to focus on identity, politics and culture
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The African American Studies and Research Center and Latin American and Latino American Studies program at Purdue University will present their 27th annual symposium on African-American culture and philosophy.
Afro-Latin America: Rethinking Identity, Politics and Culture will be Dec. 1-3 on the third floor of Stewart Center on Purdue’s campus. For more information, including registration and fees, visit https://www.conf.purdue.edu/aasrc/Default.asp
The symposium will feature a keynote lecture at 7 p.m. Dec. 1 in Stewart Center, Room 322. Kim D. Butler, associate professor of history at Rutgers University, will speak on "Latinizing Race, Racializing Latinidad: The Shifting Terrains of Blackness." Butler specializes in African diaspora studies with a focus on Brazil, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Additional presentations will be given throughout the symposium, including one by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, a professor of history at Michigan State University, during a plenary luncheon. Hall will present "The Atlantic Slave Data Network: A Tool for Comparative Studies of the African Diaspora."
The symposium is co-sponsored by Purdue's College of Liberal Arts; Graduate School; Black Cultural Center; Diversity Resource Office; Office of Interdisciplinary Studies; and the departments of Anthropology, English, Foreign Languages and Literatures, History, Political Science, and Philosophy.
Writer: Rebekah Piotrowicz, 765-496-3006, rpiotrow@purdue.edu
Source: Venetria Patton, 765-494-2151, vpatton@purdue.edu