19TH CENTURY MIGRATION IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
Jose Moya
Tuesday, September 20, 7:00 p.m.
Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor, Barnard Hall
On September 20, Barnard College Professor Jose Moya will present a paper exploring migration in the Western Hemisphere during the 19th century. In 1800, America, as a symbol of wealth, still referred to the Spanish colonies rather than to the newly independent United States. The hemisphere’s 10 largest cities were in Latin America. Mexico City alone surpassed in population the five largest U.S. cities combined. This paper examines how, during the next century, massive European migration drastically shifted the socioeconomic center of the Western Hemisphere from the old colonies of mines and plantations to what had been until then backwaters in the northern and southern edges of the New World, fomenting in the process a new form of modernity based on mass participation.

Professor Moya has taught Latin American history at UCLA since 1988 and came to Barnard this year. His book Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930 (Berkeley, 1998) received five prestigious awards, and the journal Historical Methods Methods published a special forum on its theoretical contributions to the study of migration. He has been a Fulbright fellow in Argentina twice, a Burkhart Fellow in Rome, and has received numerous others fellowships. His recent publications deal with global diasporas, labor radicalism and the anarchist movement, and the modernization of the Atlantic world during the long nineteenth century.

A READING AND DISCUSSION WITH GHANAIAN POET KOFI ANYIDOHO
Friday, September 30, 6:00 p.m.
Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor, Barnard Hall
Kofi Anyidoho will read and discuss his poetry that deals primarily with public, political, and social themes rooted in the traditions and culture of Ghana's Ewe people.

The Ghanaian poet and educator Kofi Anyidoho is a Professor of Literature and Director of the School of Performing Arts. A graduate of the University of Ghana, Legon, he earned an M.A. from Indiana University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas. His most recent book of poetry, PraiseSong (2002), draws on Ewe verbal art as a critical source of the cultural and philosophical expression of an African community.
CO-SPONSORED BY THE LITERATURE OF THE MIDDLE PASSAGE/THE GHANA PROJECT.

AFRICAN CITIES AND CITIZENS
Awam Amkpa, Associate Professor of Drama at New York University.
Tuesday, October 25, 7:00 p.m.
Julius S. Held Lecture Hall, 304 Barnard Hall
Professor Amkpa was formerly Senior Lecturer of Drama and Television at King Alfred’s University College, Winchester, England and Associate Professor of Theatre Arts at Mount Holyoke College. He received his BA in Dramatic Arts from Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria, his MA in Drama from Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria, and his PhD in Drama at the University of Bristol in England. He is the author of Theatre and Postcolonial Desires (Routledge) and forthcoming books Postcolonial Drama (Oxford University Press) and Theatre of the Black Atlantic. He is also a playwright, director and director of documentaries such as Winds Against Our Souls (England), The Other Day We All Went to the Movies (West Africa), Its All About Downtown (Jamaica), National Images/Transnational Desires (West Africa). He is currently co-directing a series of documentaries on African cities.
CO-SPONSORED BY THE LITERATURE OF THE MIDDLE PASSAGE/THE GHANA PROJECT.

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