2004-2005 Programs
Pictures from 2004-2005
Dr. Deborah Willis, "Imaging Black Culture" - February 10,
2005
Melvin Edwards, "From Then to Now, From Here
To There" - February
22, 2005
Dr. Andrea Barnwell, "Black Bodies and The Paradox
of Pleasure" - March
30, 2005
Camille Billops, "The Magic
of Printmaking" - April
2, 2005
Dr. Sharon Patton, "Burden
of Representation and the African Diaspora" April
14, 2005
Maryland Day - April
30, 2005
The Driskell Center seeks to foster curiosity and interest in Africa and the diaspora throughout the campus community. To this end, the Center offers support for programs initiated by University of Maryland undergraduates, graduates, or faculty—guest lectures, artistic and performance workshops, film festivals, speaker series, and heritage activities—meant to promote debate and the exchange of ideas within the campus community.
Programming for the next academic year will kick off with two major conferences:
African American Identity Travels, September 17-18
How have African American people, ideas, culture and politics traveled outside the U.S. and what has been the effect of those travels on the identity and politics of black people within the United States?
A two-day conference will bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from around the country with area faculty and graduate students to explore this question.
The conference is free and open to the public. For details about the conference, see the African American Identity Travels Web page.
Questions may be addressed to: identitytravels@umd.edu
The conference is sponsored by the Center for Historical Studies; the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the African Diaspora; Coordinating Council for Equity and Diversity; the Office of Graduate Recruitment, Retention, and Diversity; the African American Studies Department; and the American Studies Department.
Cultures of Dictatorship: Reflections on the Brazilian Golpe of 1964, October 14-16.
Details forthcoming
Historical Perspectives on Latin American Dictatorships, October 13
Graduate Student ConferenceHistorical Perspectives on Latin American Dictatorships, a graduate student conference sponsored by the University of Maryland's Department of History and the History Graduate Student Association, will take place in conjunction with the international symposium, The Cultures of Dictatorship: Historical Reflections on the Brazilian Golpe of 1964, to be held October 14 -16, 2004. Both events, which include papers on topics regarding transnational influences of the Brazilian golpe, the development of social movements under a dictatorship, and discourses and ideologies of authoritarian rule, share the goal of understanding military dictatorships in Latin America from a historical perspective.
The one-day Graduate Student Conference will take place October 13 at the University of Maryland. The graduate student conference will include an opportunity to learn about the different resources available at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration relating to the military period in Latin America. Students participating in the Graduate Student Conference will be invited to attend the Cultures of Dictatorship keynote and panels, including a special session to be held at Archives II.
Call for Papers
Past years' programming can be accessed through the pull-down menu in the upper right.