To close “Be)Holding Love & Loss: An Interdisciplinary Arts and Humanities Series on Grief,” the play "Eurydice" ran at Asbury United Methodist Church from Nov. 14-18. The play, which explores
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Anti-Racism Pedagogies & Faculty of Color Retention: How to Thrive Building Community • Tuesday, April 20th, 202, 4:00-5:00pm
The Dartmouth Conversations: Anti-racism and the Humanities Series invites you to an honest conversation with Dr. Alaí Reyes-Santos about the challenges faced by faculty of color enacting anti-racist pedagogies, and what are strategies and tools that enable us to transform those challenges into sites of creativity and community building on- and off-the classroom.
Dr. Alaí Reyes-Santos is a professor of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies and Conflict Resolution at University of Oregon. She is also an Iya-priestess of Afro-Caribbean regla de osha and regla conga. Her professional training and ceremonial practice inform her work as a writer, educator, consultant, and facilitator.
Eighth annual Mandel Lecture in the Humanities Series
Dr. Daphne Brooks discussed protest music in America and the struggle for Black freedom at the eighth annual Mandel Lectures in the Humanities Series at Brandeis University. Brooks spoke on the work and legacy of two former slaves and how their music impacted future artists.
“By following the creative, the experimental, and the intellectual intimacies of our 19th century forebears, Wiggins and Sheppard … [unsettle and undo] the very economy of the protest music tradition,” said Brooks.
Thomas Wiggins, also known as “Blind Tom,” was a 19th century piano prodigy whose music and legacy brings up new questions about how slaves documented their subjugation, according to Brooks, especially since Wiggins did not have any writings of his own. Ella Sheppard, who was also a slave, had a remarkable influence that extended well beyond her lifetime, similar to Wiggins, Brooks explains, saying that the talents and contribut
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