Seminars are on Thursdays from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m.

in

The Simon H. Rifkind Center Seminar Room
North Academic Center, Room 6/ 316

September 28, 2000: A Theory of African-American English
Arthur K. Spears, Professor of Anthropology, City College

November16, 2000: The Influence of Linguistic Channels
on Proto-African Identity
Edwin Farrell, Professor of Education, City College

December 7, 2000: From West African Ekpe to Cuba Ekue: Linguistic Evidence for the Presence of Africa in Cuba
Ivor L. Miller, Independent Scholar

February 22, 2001: African Diasporic Language and Appearance at Play in Brazilian Fiction
Charles Martin, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Queens College

March 15, 2001: Exploring Factors Which Seem to Contribute to or Impede Acquisition of Standard English (SE) among English Creole-Speaking Students in the New York City Public School System
Yvonne Pratt-Johnson, Professor of English-as- a-Second Language,
Borough of Manhattan Community College

April 26, 2001: Negotiating African American Social and Linguistic Identity, A Study of the Language and Culture of 2nd and 3rd Generation West Indians in New York
Renée A. Blake, Assistant Professor of Linguistics and African American Studies, New York University

The CUNY Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC); The Simon H. Rifkind Center for the Humanities and the Arts at City College; & The Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies (CPCPS)

For additional information call (212) 650-7367, (212) 650-8951

The Simon H. Rifkind Center for the Humanities and the Arts at City College

&

The Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies (CPCPS)

Cordially Invite You To

2000-2001 Seminar Series

Language and Diaspora Culture seeks to foster research into how language both affects and is affected by the cultural conditions of diaspora, and how under these conditions linguistic differences and affiliations interact with other categories of identity, be they of geography, race, religion, gender and class. We invite applications from scholars in a broad range of disciplines, including: history, literary studies, linguistics, sociology, psychology, anthropology, and philosophy. We are open to an examination of any and all language systems and diaspora cultures. It is our hope that as the linguistic, ethnic, and racial map of the United States becomes increasingly heterogeneous, the work emerging from this project will inform public debate and public policy, particularly in the area of education.

Time: Selected Thursdays, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Place: The Simon H. Rifkind Center Seminar Room
North Academic Center, Room 6/ 316
The City College of the City University of New York
Amsterdam Avenue & 136^th Street
New York, NY 10031