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TOMORROW Language Conference: indigenous music, NY poetry, slave narrative, Indian theater

Posted by Diana C. Silverman, Ph.D. on April 17, 2012 at 12:23 pm

Please share with your department a cordial invitation to The International Mother Language Day Conference at LaGuardia Community College, TOMORROW,
on Wednesday, April 18th,
at 2.00 pm,
in the E Building Poolside Cafe
LaGuardia Community College
31-10 Thomson Avenue
Long Island City, Queens.
Our illustrious speakers are:

Professor Aaron Fox, Columbia University’s Music Department,
with a talk on returning indigenous music rights to the original communities,
http://music.columbia.edu/user/afox

Paolo Javier, the Poet Laureate of Queens,
with a talk on multicultural New York poetry,
http://www.leaderobserver.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Paolo+Javier+is+Queens-+poet-+and+he+knows+it%20&id=8014541&instance=home_news_right
http://www.shampoopoetry.com/ShampooTwenty/javier.html

Shayoni Mitra, Theater Professor at Barnard College
with a talk on the Indian popular theater of Habib Tanvir
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa-t_FImuKM&list=PL9156CBA8E0F69007&context=C411f5e4ADvjVQa1PpcFOq3ppuohH93TUXIhIbhmM4e3VzylOMVAU%3D
http://barnard.edu/headlines/prof-shayoni-mitra-studies-activism-through-community-based-theatre-rural-india
https://barnard.edu/profiles/shayoni-mitra

Yvette Christiansë, Professor of Africana Studies at Barnard College
with a talk on her novel based on a documented South African slave,
Unconfessed (2006)
http://www.bookbrowse.com/author_interviews/full/index.cfm/author_number/1393/yvette-christians%C3%AB
https://barnard.edu/profiles/yvette-christianse
http://web.me.com/ychrist/Ychrist/Index.html

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