You are cordially invited to CUNY’s LaGuardia Community College for our conference in honor of the UNESCO world holiday, International Mother Language Day:
This Wednesday, April 18th,
2.00 pm,
Poolside Cafe
E Building
31-10 Thomson Avenue
Long Island City, Queens.
At our conference, we will welcome:
Professor Aaron Fox, Columbia University’s Music Department,
with a talk on returning indigenous music 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 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
Diana C. Silverman, Ph.D.
Substitute Assistant Professor of Italian
Department of Education and Language Acquisition
LaGuardia Community College, The City University of New York
31-10 Thomson Avenue
Long Island City, Queens
Office: Room B-234
Phone: 718-482-6111
Email: dsilverman@lagcc.cuny.edu
Website: http://sites.google.com/a/caa.columbia.edu/diana/