As part of the ISA series The Cuban Revolution at 50: Art and Cinema, Enver Casimir (PhD UNC History) will present a talk in conjunction with a film presentation of Kid Chocolate, a documentary including interviews with the sport legend. Casimir completed his doctoral studies in Latin American and Caribbean history here at UNC in the spring of 2009. He received his B.A. in history from Harvard University in 1994 and his M.A. in history from UNC in 2005. His primary research interests center on the 19th and 20th century Caribbean and the experience and significance of race in the Americas. His dissertation, which he defended in May 2009, uses the career of Afro-Cuban boxer Kid Chocolate as a lens to examine the ways in which sport and race related to Cuban nationalism in the 1920s and 1930s. Free Please Contact: Beatriz Riefkohl 919-966-1484 for more information.December 
Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 7:30 pm Global Education Center, UNC-CH
Ackland Presents: La Ultima Cena (The Last Supper, 1977)
Set in Cuba just after the Haitian Revolution of 1795, this film deals with the idea of religious hypocrisy in the context of slavery. FREE Please Contact: Ackland Art Museum http://www.ackland.org/art/exhibitions/2009/almost_now/ for more information. Tuesday, December 1, 2009, Wed-Sat 10-5; Sun 1-5; until 9pm 2nd Fri of month 101 South Columbia Street
Almost Now: Cuban Art, Cinema, and Politics in the 1960s an 1970s
The Ackland Art Museum presents a special exhibition of 16 Cuban cinema posters recently given to the Ackland by eminent art historian, collector, and Carolina alumnus David Craven. Almost Now examines the central role that artists, filmmakers, and film audiences have played in Cuban cultural and political discourse since the Cuban Revolution. Through December 6, 2009 Free Please Contact: www.ackland.org 919-966-5736 for more information. Thursday, December 3, 2009, 7:30 pm Global Education Center, UNC-CH
Ackland Presents: Retrato de Teresa (Portrait of Teresa, 1979)
This film's focus on the concept of machismo and the oppression of women in Cuba garnered it the distinction of being one of the "great films about women's emancipation."
FREE Please Contact: Ackland Art Museum http://www.ackland.org/art/exhibitions/2009/almost_now/ for more information.February
Thursday, February 18, 2010, 7:30pm Gerrard Hall, UNC-CH campus on Cameron Avenue
The Art and Culture of the DJ
Featuring DJ Radar, composer Raúl Yañez and UNC’s Charanga Ensemble led by assistant professor of music David Garcia. This work for turntables and Latin ensemble will be part of the Digital Arts and Humanities Festival at UNC focused on the theme of Collaborations: Humanities, Arts and Technology (CHAT). Free Please Contact: Joseph Megel (919) 843-7067 megel@email.unc.edu for more information. Friday, February 19, 2010, 8:00pm Gerrard Hall, UNC-CH campus on Cameron Avenue
The Art and Culture of the DJ
Featuring DJ Radar, composer Raúl Yañez and UNC’s Charanga Ensemble led by assistant professor of music David Garcia. This work for turntables and Latin ensemble will be part of the Digital Arts and Humanities Festival at UNC focused on the theme of Collaborations: Humanities, Arts and Technology (CHAT). Free Please Contact: Joseph Megel (919) 843-7067 megel@email.unc.edu for more information.March
Thursday, March 25, 2010, 7:30 pm Tate-Turner-Kuralt Auditorium, 325 Pittsboro Street
Gender and Empire - Comparative Perspectives
Catherine Hall (University College London) Organizers: Karen Hagemann, Chad Bryant (both UNC, Department of History), Emily Burrill (UNC, Curriculum in Women’s Studies) and the UNC Graduate Working Group on Gender History
Gender and Empire – Comparative Perspectives
Literature, art and movies often represent colonization and the formation of empires as male adventure stories. Maleness certainly was constitutive of the imperial enterprise, but as gender historians have long emphasized, imperial maleness needed constant confirmation and substantiation. Historians of empire have observed the same characteristics for colonial rule, which too constantly needed to be confirmed and legitimated, because of the permanent fear that colonial and racial prestige—and power—might be undermined. Colonial discourses on gender seems to be one of the spaces were the instability of the empires and its power structures is most visible. Competing concepts of masculinity and femininity were central to colonial order, but they cannot be understood in isolation. Rather, they need to be historicized and contextualized. They were constructed in close interplay with other categories of difference like race, ethnicity, class, sexuality and religion and created sexual, racial, and national hierarchies, which challenged or stabilized imperial rule during the nineteenth and twentieth century. They also challenge historians to think comparatively about empires and to ask what constitutes an empire.
In the workshop we will explore the complex connections between gender and empire in a comparative perspective. We will contrast the British colonial rule in North America, the Caribbean and India; the French rule in the Caribbean and Africa; the Habsburg rule in Central-Eastern Europe; the Spanish Empire and its rule in Latin America; and the rule of the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East during the long nineteenth century. In our comparison we want to study the specific characteristics of the different empires and the function of the gender order for their rule in the colonies. We will discuss the deployment of femininities and masculinities that justified imperial rule and attempted to establish clear lines of demarcation between ruler and ruled. We will analyze the ambiguities and contradictions of colonial relationships across genders and look at colonial policies that regulated these gender relations and how they transformed over time. Finally, we will analyze the ways in which processes of decolonization and nation-building were influenced by the gendered legacies of imperialism. Please Contact: Karen Hagemann 919-962-3960 hagemann@unc.edu for more information. Friday, March 26, 2010, 12:30 pm UNC Institute for Arts and Humanities, Hyde Hall
Gender and Empire - Comparative Perspectives
Organizers: Karen Hagemann, Chad Bryant (both UNC, Department of History), Emily Burrill (UNC, Curriculum in Women’s Studies) and the UNC Graduate Working Group on Gender History
Gender and Empire – Comparative Perspectives
Literature, art and movies often represent colonization and the formation of empires as male adventure stories. Maleness certainly was constitutive of the imperial enterprise, but as gender historians have long emphasized, imperial maleness needed constant confirmation and substantiation. Historians of empire have observed the same characteristics for colonial rule, which too constantly needed to be confirmed and legitimated, because of the permanent fear that colonial and racial prestige—and power—might be undermined. Colonial discourses on gender seems to be one of the spaces were the instability of the empires and its power structures is most visible. Competing concepts of masculinity and femininity were central to colonial order, but they cannot be understood in isolation. Rather, they need to be historicized and contextualized. They were constructed in close interplay with other categories of difference like race, ethnicity, class, sexuality and religion and created sexual, racial, and national hierarchies, which challenged or stabilized imperial rule during the nineteenth and twentieth century. They also challenge historians to think comparatively about empires and to ask what constitutes an empire.
In the workshop we will explore the complex connections between gender and empire in a comparative perspective. We will contrast the British colonial rule in North America, the Caribbean and India; the French rule in the Caribbean and Africa; the Habsburg rule in Central-Eastern Europe; the Spanish Empire and its rule in Latin America; and the rule of the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East during the long nineteenth century. In our comparison we want to study the specific characteristics of the different empires and the function of the gender order for their rule in the colonies. We will discuss the deployment of femininities and masculinities that justified imperial rule and attempted to establish clear lines of demarcation between ruler and ruled. We will analyze the ambiguities and contradictions of colonial relationships across genders and look at colonial policies that regulated these gender relations and how they transformed over time. Finally, we will analyze the ways in which processes of decolonization and nation-building were influenced by the gendered legacies of imperialism. Faculty: $ 25.00 and Grad. Students: $ 15.00 Please Contact: Karen Hagemann 919-962-3960 hagemann@unc.edu for more information. Saturday, March 27, 2010, 9:30 am UNC Institute for Arts and Humanities, Hyde Hall
Gender and Empire - Comparative Perspectives
Organizers: Karen Hagemann, Chad Bryant (both UNC, Department of History), Emily Burrill (UNC, Curriculum in Women’s Studies) and the UNC Graduate Working Group on Gender History
Gender and Empire – Comparative Perspectives
Literature, art and movies often represent colonization and the formation of empires as male adventure stories. Maleness certainly was constitutive of the imperial enterprise, but as gender historians have long emphasized, imperial maleness needed constant confirmation and substantiation. Historians of empire have observed the same characteristics for colonial rule, which too constantly needed to be confirmed and legitimated, because of the permanent fear that colonial and racial prestige—and power—might be undermined. Colonial discourses on gender seems to be one of the spaces were the instability of the empires and its power structures is most visible. Competing concepts of masculinity and femininity were central to colonial order, but they cannot be understood in isolation. Rather, they need to be historicized and contextualized. They were constructed in close interplay with other categories of difference like race, ethnicity, class, sexuality and religion and created sexual, racial, and national hierarchies, which challenged or stabilized imperial rule during the nineteenth and twentieth century. They also challenge historians to think comparatively about empires and to ask what constitutes an empire.
In the workshop we will explore the complex connections between gender and empire in a comparative perspective. We will contrast the British colonial rule in North America, the Caribbean and India; the French rule in the Caribbean and Africa; the Habsburg rule in Central-Eastern Europe; the Spanish Empire and its rule in Latin America; and the rule of the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East during the long nineteenth century. In our comparison we want to study the specific characteristics of the different empires and the function of the gender order for their rule in the colonies. We will discuss the deployment of femininities and masculinities that justified imperial rule and attempted to establish clear lines of demarcation between ruler and ruled. We will analyze the ambiguities and contradictions of colonial relationships across genders and look at colonial policies that regulated these gender relations and how they transformed over time. Finally, we will analyze the ways in which processes of decolonization and nation-building were influenced by the gendered legacies of imperialism. Faculty: $ 25.00 and Grad. Students: $ 15.00 Please Contact: Karen Hagemann 919-962-3960 hagemann@unc.edu for more information.
