LECTURE AND ROUNDTABLE: Frenchness and the African Diaspora
Charles Tshimanga-Kashama, Didier Gondola, and Peter Bloom
Friday, May 12 / 4:00 PM / South Hall 2635
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Didier Gondola (Associate Professor of History, Purdue), Charles Tshimanga-Kashama (Assistant Professor of History, University of Nevada-Reno), and Peter Bloom (Assistant Professor of Film Studies, UCSB) will present their work from a collaborative project entitled Frenchness and the African Diaspora, and create a roundtable discussion around second (and third) generation immigrants born in France and their involvement in the recent unrest in the country. The presentation includes video footage taken in the Parisian suburbs by Didier Gondola with various members of the youth movement.

Sponsored by the Departments of Film Studies; French and Italian; History; and the IHC’s African Studies Research Focus Group

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