Africa & African-American Studies
Events
2020
January 17 - May 15: “African Apparel: Threaded Transformations across the 20th Century,” CFAM exhibition
January 19: Baldwin Book Club discusses Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility, Hannibal Sq. Heritage Center, 2pm [originally scheduled for Jan. 12, but postponed to Jan. 19]
January 19 – 25: MLK Week events at Rollins College https://www.rollins.edu/inclusion-and-campus-involvement/diversity-inclusion-intiatives/mlk-week.html
January 19: MLK Speeches Read-in, 4pm, Knowles Chapel
January 20: MLK Vigil, 6pm, Tiedke Concert Hall
January 21: Black History 101 Mobile Museum, 10am-4pm (w/ lecture at 12 noon), Kathleen Rollins Hall
January 23: Beloved Community Walk, 1pm, Mills Lawn
January 24: Selma, 6pm, SunTrust Auditorium [sponsored by BSU]
January 24: “African Apparel” curator’s tour w/ MacKenzie Moon Ryan, 11am-12noon, CFAM
January 24: Lunch ‘n’ learn on the civil rights movement in Florida w/ LaVon Bracy, 12noon-1:30pm, Kathleen W. Rollins Hall
January 25: MLK Day of Service, meet at 8:30am at Alfond Sports Center, buses depart at 9am
January 25 - February 2: Zora Neale Hurston Festival, https://zorafestival.org/
January 28: “African Apparel” panel w/ MacKenzie Moon Ryan, Morgan Snoap ’20, Cristina Toppin ’21, 6pm-7pm, CFAM
January 29: Always in Season, film + panel, 6pm, Bush Auditorium[sponsored by Global Peace Film Festival + PBS Independent Lens]
January 31 - May 16: “Power Myth, and Memory in Africana Art” exhibition, Hannibal Square Heritage Center
February 3: “Understanding Santeria” with Henry Heredia of Juan Marinello Cuban Institute for Cultural Research, 6pm, Bush Auditorium [sponsored by LACS / AAAS / Philosophy & Religion]
February 9: Baldwin Book Club discusses Isabel Wilkerson’s The Warmth of Other Suns, Hannibal Sq. Heritage Center, 2pm
February 11: “An African-American & Latinx History of the U.S.” w/ Paul Ortiz, Univ. of Florida Dept. of History, 7pm, SunTrust Auditorium [sponsored by AAAS / TPJ]
February 16: “1619 Fest,” 10am-5pm, Hannibal Square Heritage Center [performers, films, Middle Passage VR]
February 16: “Across the Tracks: A Collective History of Black Churches of Winter Park” w/ Dr. Rebekah McCloud, 2pm, Winter Park Public Library
February 20: “The Quest for Environmental Justice" with Robert Bullard, 7pm, Tiedkte Concert Hall
February 20: Claudia Rankine, poet and playwright, 7:30-8:15 pm, Bush Auditorium [sponsored by Winter With the Writers]
February 21: Summit on Transforming Learning: Environmental Justice, various locations, 9am-3pm - https://www.rollins.edu/student-affairs/summit-transforming-learning/summit-schedule.html
February 23: “Power Myth, and Memory in Africana Art” panel w/ CJ Williams, Kristin Congdon, and Patrick Noze, Hannibal Square Heritage Center, 2-4pm
February 23: Soul Food Sunday, 5-7pm, Galloway Room, Kathleen W. Rollins Hall [sponsored by BSU]
February 24: “What is Ubuntu?” w/ Kevin Chaplin, founder of South African Ubuntu Foundation, Bieberbach Room, Campus Center, 4:15pm [sponsored by the Center for Global Initiatives]
February 26: “What About Us? Racial Bias in the Criminal Justice System” w/ Lyle Mazin, Dr. Lisa Tillmann, Dayna Clark, and Amir Ladan, 4pm, SunTrust Auditorium [sponsored by Off-Campus Students Association, BSU, LASA, Fox Funds]
March 5: Long Time Coming: A 1955 Baseball Story, film + discussion with the players, 6:30-9:30pm, Knowles Chapel [sponsored by Bridging the Color Divide]
March 10: “Silk, Amber, and Wool: A History of North African Dress” w/ Cynthia Becker, Boston Univ. Dept. of Art History, 6-7pm, CFAM [sponsored by Art & Art History / TPJ]
June 19: "Imagining Freedom: Black Community and Creating Place" w/ Dr. Julian Chambliss and Dr. Scot French, 7pm. Online event hosted by Hannibal Square Community Land Trust, register here: https://hannibalsquareclt.org/2020/05/juneteenth-event-2020/