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<td>Visiting British scholar activists this week.</td>
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<td>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 10:11:39 -0400</td>
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<td>Natane Halasz <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:nhalasz@hampshire.edu"><nhalasz@hampshire.edu></a></td>
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<span style="color:#00ff00;"><strong>THIS COMING WEEK! PLEASE
CIRCULATE! PLEASE COME!</strong></span><br>
<br>
The <span style="color:#0000ff;">Creative Writing Program</span><span
style="color:#00ffff;"> </span>and the<span
style="color:#ee82ee;"> </span><span style="color:#800080;">Program
for Arts and Social Action</span> in the <span
style="color:#ff0000;">School for IA</span> invite you to two
'informal talks' <strong>this week</strong> by visiting British
scholar activists (and partners in life) Paul Gilroy and Vron
Ware:<br>
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<strong>5.30pm on Thursday 28th March at The Center for Feminisms</strong> (refreshments)<br>
<br>
<span style="color:#008000;"><strong>VRON WARE</strong>: </span><span
style="color:#ff8c00;"><strong>The Politics of Feminist
Curiosity</strong></span><br>
<br>
<span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>'Considering how dangerous
everything is, nothing is really very frightening'</strong></span><br>
<br>
Inspired by the words of Gertrude Stein, Vron Ware reflects on her
life-work fighting racism and militarism. From combating fascists
in the 1970s to investigating the British Army in 2008, Vron will
talk about how the politics of feminist curiosity have guided her
in her life as an activist, scholar and writer. Vron Ware has
engaged in life-long activism around questions of post colonialism
and race, She is currently a Research Fellow at The Open
University, UK. Author of the influential book <strong>Beyond the
Pale: white women, racism and history,</strong>she has also
written <strong>Out of Whiteness: color, politics and culture</strong> and <strong>Who
Cares about Britishness?</strong>. Her new study of racism and
diversity in the contemporary British Army, <strong>Military
Migrants: Fighting for YOUR country</strong>, was published by
Palgrave Macmillan in 2012. She was editor of the anti-fascist,
anti-racist, magazine Searchlight from 1981-3 and taught at Yale
from 1999 to 2005.<br>
<br>
<strong>4pm on Friday 29<sup>th</sup> March at THE CULTURAL
CENTER </strong>(refreshments)<br>
<br>
<span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong>An Andrew Salkey Memorial
event</strong></span><br>
<br>
<span style="color:#008000;"><strong>PAUL GILROY</strong>: </span><span
style="color:#ff8c00;"><strong>BETWEEN THE RIOTS: Black Arts in
Britain between the riots of the 1980s and the riots of 2011</strong></span><br>
<br>
A scholar of <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Studies"
target="4QSYCvrBk2lRTwaaKLPwiOA">Cultural Studies</a> and Black
Atlantic diasporic culture with interests in the "myriad
manifestations of <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_British"
target="4QSYCvrBk2lRTwaaKLPwiOA">black British</a> culture, his
works include: <em>The Empire Strikes Back - Race and Racism in
'70s Britain</em>; <em>There Ain't No Black In the Union Jack:
The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation</em>; <em>The Black
Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness</em>; <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674006690"
target="4QSYCvrBk2lRTwaaKLPwiOA"><em>Against Race: Imagining
Political Culture Beyond the Color Line</em></a>, <em>After
Empire: Multiculture or Postcolonial Melancholia</em>; <em>Black
Britain - A Photographic History</em> ; "<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674060234"
target="4QSYCvrBk2lRTwaaKLPwiOA">Darker Than Blue: On The Moral
Economies of Black Atlantic Culture</a>"<br>
<br>
Paul taught at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Bank_University"
target="4QSYCvrBk2lRTwaaKLPwiOA">South Bank University</a>, <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex_University"
target="4QSYCvrBk2lRTwaaKLPwiOA">Essex University</a> and then <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldsmiths_College,_University_of_London"
target="4QSYCvrBk2lRTwaaKLPwiOA">Goldsmiths College</a> for many
years before leaving London to become chair of the Department of
African American Studies and Charlotte Marian Saden Professor of
Sociology and African American Studies at <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_University"
target="4QSYCvrBk2lRTwaaKLPwiOA">Yale University</a>,. He was
first holder of the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Giddens"
target="4QSYCvrBk2lRTwaaKLPwiOA">Anthony Giddens</a> Professorship
in Social Theory at the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_School_of_Economics"
target="4QSYCvrBk2lRTwaaKLPwiOA">London School of Economics</a> before
he joined<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_College_London"
target="4QSYCvrBk2lRTwaaKLPwiOA">King's College London</a> last
September. Heis known as a path-breaking scholar and historian of
the music of the Black Atlantic <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora"
target="4QSYCvrBk2lRTwaaKLPwiOA">diaspora</a>, as a commentator
on the politics of race, nation and <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism"
target="4QSYCvrBk2lRTwaaKLPwiOA">racism</a> in the UK, and as an
archaeologist of the literary and cultural lives of blacks in the
western hemisphere. According to the US <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Journal_of_Blacks_in_Higher_Education&action=edit&redlink=1"
target="4QSYCvrBk2lRTwaaKLPwiOA"><em>Journal of Blacks in Higher
Education</em></a> he has been consistently among the most
frequently cited black scholars in the humanities and social
sciences. Gilroy's theories of race, racism and culture were
influential in shaping the cultural and political movement of
black British people during the 1990s.<br>
<br>
<span style="color:#ffa500;"><strong>Vron Ware and Paul Gilroy are
also Hampshire parents - their son Marcus is an alumn.</strong></span><br>
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Their presence is supported by IA Arts & Social Action
Program, Creative Writing Program, Andrew Salkey memorial, The
Office of Diversity and Multicultural Education,The Cultural
Center, Center for Feminisms,Feminist Studies, Feminists United
Collective, The Global Education Office, School of CSI- and
others!<br>
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Natane Halasz
Administrative Assistant
School for Interdisciplinary Arts
Hampshire College
893 West Street
Amherst, MA 01002
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(T) 413.559.5824
(F) 413.559.5247
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phone: 413.559.5502 <br>
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