Hobart and William Smith Colleges - africana studies

McCorkle Presents Poetry Reading

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Assistant Professor of Africana Studies James McCorkle '76 will perform as part of the Musical Moments recital series at the Geneva Public Library on Friday, Sept. 9. McCorkle is the author of "The Still Performance" (a study of post-modern American poetry), the editor of "Conversant Essays: Contemporary Poets on Poetry," and most recently, with Jeff Gray and Mary McAleer Balkun, "Greenwood Ency...

Pinto Honored:Four Present at Conference

Fri, 13 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

George Joseph, professor in the French and Francophone Department, and Assistant Professor James McCorkle and Scholar in Residence Thelma Pinto, both of the Africana Studies Program, recently participated in the 37th Annual African Literature Association conference, held at Ohio University this spring. The theme of the conference was "African Literature, Visual Arts and Film in Local and Transnat...

Presenting at African Literature Assoc

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

George Joseph, professor in the French and Francophone Department, and Assistant Professor James McCorkle and Scholar in Residence Thelma Pinto, both of the Africana Studies Program, recently participated in the 36th Annual African Literature Association conference, held in Tucson, Arizona. The theme of the conference was "Eco-Imagination: African and Diasporan Literatures and Sustainability." "I...

McCorkle Presents at Polish Consulate

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

James McCorkle '76, who teaches in the First Year Seminar Program and in Africana Studies at HWS, moderated a panel discussion as well as presented a lecture on the work of the painter Wlodzimierz Ksiazek at the Polish Consulate in New York City on Jan. 28. Widely exhibited, Ksiazek's works are meditations on exile, time and process; often alluding to archaeological foundations, the paintings are...

Shedding Light on 18th-century Africa

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Professor of French and Francophone Studies Catherine Gallouët has edited a collection of essays, titled L'Afrique du Siècle des Lumières: savoirs et representations [Africa during the Enlightenment: knowledge and representation] which was recently published by Oxford University Press. The collection, containing 18 essays by scholars from Europe, Africa and North America, discusses the various wa...

Spending Summer the "Write" Way

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT

A group of dedicated students gave up part of their summer to instead hit the books at the Summer Institute, a five-week, intensive, on-campus academic program which incorporates courses in math, social sciences, writing, and study skills for incoming first-years. "The program allows students to benefit from college-level courses for credit, developing and enhancing their skill sets and identifyi...

Johnson and "Rebellion or Revolution?"

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Cedric Johnson, associate professor of political science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, has written a new foreword to Harold Cruse's "Rebellion or Revolution?"--a book first published in 1968. Cruse (1916-2005) was a social critic, essayist and teacher of African American studies at the University of Michigan. He is described as "One of the leading writers of African American intellectual ...

Landing an Internship with Africa Action

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

This summer, Laura Martin '10 is fulfilling her passion through an internship experience with Africa Action in Washington, D.C. Through the national organization that works for political, economic, and social justice in Africa, she has been given the opportunity to help people of a place for which she has great fervor. Working on a double major in International Relations and Africana Studies, Mart...

McCorkle '76 in International Museum

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Assistant Professor James McCorkle '76, who teaches in the First-Year Seminar program and in the Africana Studies program, has created a project for Projective/Artura and the International Artists' Museum (Tel Aviv). McCorkle's poem, "To Be Here, Again" will appear superimposed on a mosaic of Polish artist Wlodzimierz Ksiazek's 2008 painting "Venice" to form a limited-edition book. This is the sec...

Sharing South African Literature

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

South African Literature is making its way to Seneca Falls thanks to Thelma Pinto, assistant professor of Africana studies. On March 3 at 7 p.m., Pinto will offer her expertise to the surrounding community by giving a lecture in the "Everybody in Seneca Falls Reads 2009" at the Seneca Falls Library. Her talk will focus on women's narratives during and after the Apartheid in South Africa. "In the h...