Past Events

March
3
Date
-
Location
Building 200, History Corner
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 200, Stanford, CA 94305
Room 307

Myriam J. A. Chancy is an award-winning writer of fiction and non-fiction, Guggenheim Fellow, and HBA Chair of the Humanities at Scripps College whose work focuses on Haiti and the Caribbean.

February
25
Date
-
Location
Bolivar House
582 Alvarado Row, Stanford, CA 94305
Seminar Room

Dr. Gabriel Hetland is Associate Professor of Africana, Latin American, Caribbean and Latinx Studies at SUNY Albany.

February
13
Date
Location
Bolivar House
582 Alvarado Row, Stanford, CA 94305

In Bêtes Noires, Lauren Derby explores storytelling traditions among the people of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, focusing on shape-shifting spirit demons called baka/bacá.

February
6
Date
Location
Bolivar House
582 Alvarado Row, Stanford, CA 94305

Jennifer Tucker’s book Outlaw Capital shows how transgressive economies are central to globalized capitalism.

January
30
Date
Location
Bolivar House
582 Alvarado Row, Stanford, CA 94305

From the hyper-arid Atacama Desert to sub-Antarctic Patagonia and including Antarctica, Chile’s contrasting landscapes reveal how industrial and urban activities generate unequal chemical…