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SUMMARY:Diaspora Film Series: Healing Roots: A Conversation on Wellness in the African Diaspora with Julia Zackery Jordan and Kamille Gentles-Peart
DESCRIPTION:Healing Roots tells the tale of how Bajan (Barbadian) women use native plants and herbs—bush medicine as it is termed in Barbados—to help heal the body and the nation. It speaks to how these women continue African culture through their use of plants and asks us to think about what is lost on the island as it progresses toward the status of a developed country. Presented by Africana Studies\, European Languages and Literatures (French)\, and Media Studies in celebration of Black History Month. \n\n\n\nRegister at https://tinyurl.com/mrysvpb
URL:https://qcafricana.org/event/diaspora-film-series-healing-roots-a-conversation-on-wellness-in-the-african-diaspora-with-julia-zackery-jordan-and-kamille-gentles-peart/
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SUMMARY:Come From Away: How to Reconnect to Your Writing When You've Been Apart Too Long with Michelle Boyd\, Founder\, Inkwell Retreats
DESCRIPTION:How do we bounce back from an extended writing break? What’s the most effective way to pick up a manuscript when you barely remember what you last wrote? \n\n\n\nIn this workshop\, Michelle Boyd\, founder and director of InkWell Academic Writing Retreats\, explains how to overcome the logistical and emotional barriers that keep us from reconnecting with our writing. You’ll understand why returning to writing is so hard and learn a manageable strategy for easing back in no matter how hectic life is. Each participant will leave with a customized\, completely doable plan for starting and sticking with their writing practice throughout the semester. \n\n\n\nPlease register in advance at https://tinyurl.com/3udsb6u9
URL:https://qcafricana.org/event/come-from-away-how-to-reconnect-to-your-writing-when-youve-been-apart-too-long-with-michelle-boyd-founder-inkwell-retreats/
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SUMMARY:ARE WE SAFE YET? Policing in America as seen in the RITTENHOUSE Verdict & the McMichael Trial
DESCRIPTION:QC Africana Studies in collaboration with QC Seek and The Office of Diversity & Compliance invites you to join our Community Conversation Series: Are We Safe Yet? On November 29th we launch the first of a four-part series that focuses on unpacking systemic discriminatory processes and barriers to equitable living conditions and standards for people of color. The goals of these dialogues will be to help our campus and extended community increase cultural and emotional competencies toward building a more synergistic and cohesive lifestyle. \n\n\n\nVia Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqduuprTosHdVMERand0a4StBPbhIcrrX2
URL:https://qcafricana.org/event/are-we-safe-yet-policing-in-america-as-seen-in-the-rittenhouse-verdict-the-mcmichael-trial/
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SUMMARY:MEMNON: Of Ethiopia\, In Athens\, Under Rome with Prof. Joel Allen\, QC History Department
DESCRIPTION:Joel Allen is the Executive Officer of the PhD Program in History at the CUNY Grad Center. He is also a Professor of History at Queens College and holds an appointment in the MA/PhD Program in Classics at the Graduate Center. His research interests are in Roman imperial culture.
URL:https://qcafricana.org/event/memnon-of-ethiopia-in-athens-under-rome-with-prof-joel-allen-qc-history-department/
CATEGORIES:Community Conversations
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SUMMARY:The Thanksgiving Sewage Backup of 2019:Infrastructural Failure and Environmental Racism in South Ozone Park\, Queens
DESCRIPTION:Natalie Bump Vena is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Studies. She received her J.D. and Ph.D. from Northwestern University’s School of Law and Department of Anthropology. Her research and teaching interests concern environmental policymaking in U.S. cities. She is admitted to the New York State Bar. Vena’s long-term research examines the history of natural resources preservation in the Forest Preserve District of Cook County\, which protects 69\,000 acres of land encompassing Chicago. Vena also has an active research agenda in New York City. In addition to undertaking fieldwork and advocacy concerning a South Ozone Park community’s protracted recovery from a sewage backup that occurred in 2019\, she is studying the implementation of New York’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (2019). In particular\, she is examining the process of identifying the “disadvantaged communities” who are slated to receive 35% to 40% of benefits derived from the state’s green transition.
URL:https://qcafricana.org/event/the-thanksgiving-sewage-backup-of-2019infrastructural-failure-and-environmental-racism-in-south-ozone-park-queens/
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SUMMARY:LIBERATE YOUR SCHOLARSHIP: Claiming and naming your own set of liberated theories and methods
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Nadine Naber is an award-winning author\, public speaker and activist on the topics of racial justice; gender justice; women of color feminisms; Arab and Muslim feminisms; Arab Americans; Muslim Americans; people of color-based activism and solidarity; and international human rights. Her workshop aims to guide participants toward:1. Healing anxiety\, imposter syndrome\, and overwhelm by claiming your core beliefs and a sense of inner/collective power and dignity. \n\n\n\n2. Claiming and naming your own set of liberated theories and methods. \n\n\n\n3. Designing a liberated research project in alignment with who you are and what you stand for.Should you have questions you would like Prof. Naber to address during the workshop\, please submit them in advance to nduncan@qc.cuny.edu.
URL:https://qcafricana.org/event/liberate-your-scholarship-claiming-and-naming-your-own-set-of-liberated-theories-and-methods/
CATEGORIES:Community Conversations
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SUMMARY:It's Your Campus QC!: Building Solidarity Through Differences
DESCRIPTION:Student Workshop with Professor Nadina Naber\, Gender and Women’s Studies Program & Global Asian Studies Program\, University of Illinois\, Chicago.
URL:https://qcafricana.org/event/its-your-campus-qc-building-solidarity-through-differences/
CATEGORIES:Community Conversations
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SUMMARY:The Changing Tide in Haiti: Can the Diaspora Steer the Tide?
DESCRIPTION:The recent earthquakes and the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse have raised old and new questions on the sovereignty of the people living in the Black democratic republic of the Western Hemisphere. Join us for a community conversation on how the Diaspora and Haitians can work together to help steer the tide.  \n\n\n\nOur moderator\, Prof. Francois Pierre-Louis of Qc’s Political Science Dept. will open a dialogue between our guests Prof. Jean Eddy Saint Paul former director of CUNY Haitian Institute; Attorney and Community Activist Leonie M. Hermantin of the Sant La Haitian Neighborhood Center; Prof. Cécile Accilien chair of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Kennesaw State University and you\, our audience.
URL:https://qcafricana.org/event/the-changing-tide-in-haiti-can-the-diaspora-steer-the-tide/
CATEGORIES:Community Conversations
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SUMMARY:Kali Rodriguez-Peña's Mélange
DESCRIPTION:LAHM invites you to enjoy jazz with traditional influences from around the world in the intimacy of our Jazz Room with carefully curated concerts dedicated to our community! Seats are not assigned and will be granted to ticket holders at a first come first served basis. Orders are limited to 5 tickets per patron. \n\n\n\nPlease\, arrive 15 minutes early to be accommodated\, as the show will start promptly on the hour. Discover the international reach of this music and the most vibrant line-up in the scene today right at the home of Ambassador Satch! \n\n\n\n*** \n\n\n\n¡La Casa Museo de Louis Armstrong le invita a disfrutar jazz con influencias tradicionales provenientes de todo el mundo\, en la intimidad de nuestra nueva sala\, con conciertos curados cuidadosamente para nuestra comunidad! Los asientos no son asignados y estarán disponibles por orden de llegada. Puede comprar hasta 5 entradas por persona.  \n\n\n\nPor favor llegue por lo menos 15 minutos antes de la hora asignada para ser acomodado\, ya que el show empezará a tiempo. Descubra el alcance internacional de esta música y al emocionante personal que se destaca hoy en la escena\, precisamente en la casa del Embajador Satch!
URL:https://qcafricana.org/event/kali-rodriguez-penas-melange/
LOCATION:The Louis Armstrong House Museum\, 34-56 107th Street\, Queens\, NY\, 11368\, United States
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