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Aminatta Forna

Aminatta Forna is the award-winning author of the three novels: The Hired Man, The Memory of Love and Ancestor Stones, and a critically-acclaimed memoir The Devil that Danced on the Water. She is currently a Lannan Visiting Chair at Georgetown University.

Marwa Ghazali to Speak at Donnelly College

Marwa Ghazali to Speak at Donnelly College

Donnelly College will host “African Refugee Stories –and Silence –in Kansas,” a presentation by Marwa Ghazali, an anthropology PhD student at the University of Kansas who wrote her master’s thesis on the Bantu Somali of Kansas City. The presentation will take place 10:40-11:40 a.m. on Thursday, November 3rd.

When a Stranger Sojourns in Your Land

When a Stranger Sojourns in Your Land

Make sure to go see Tanya Hartman’s exhibition When a Stranger Sojourns in Your Land at Studios Inc in Kansas City. The exhibition runs through October 14th.

She describes the work as “an installation of glazed, earthenware letters (with gold leaf) that spell a phrase from the Book of Leviticus in the Old Testament that admonishes human beings to be welcoming to refugees and to the dispossessed.”

Diverse Dialogs on Race and Culture

Diverse Dialogs on Race and Culture

There will be a free film screening and discussion of the film Welcome to Shelbyville on Monday, September 19th at 7 pm at the Lawrence Public Library. Dicsussants will include Jennifer Ng (Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies), Cecilia Menjivar (Foundation Distinguished Professor of Sociology) and Alex Vilagram (Junior in Political Science).

Welcome to Shelbyville depicts a small town in the heart of America’s Bible Belt as it grapples with rapidly changing demographics in this hour-long documentary. Longtime African American and white residents are challenged with how best to integrate with a growing Latino population and the more recent arrival of hundreds of Muslim Somali refugees.

Sponsored by the Kansas African Studies Center, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Langston Hughes Center, Department of African & African American Studies, and the Lawrence Public Library.