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Havana, June 17 – The Third International Colloquium of the Afro-American Studies Program, to be held starting today at Casa de las Américas in Havana, will pay tribute this year to leaders Malcolm X, Patricio Lumumba, and Frantz Fanon.
Running until June 20, and with the theme "Epistemic Insurgencies of Contemporary Afro-Diasporic Thought," the forum recalls the centenaries of these three great political figures with an extensive academic program that can be taught both virtually, as a presential, according to the Cubarte website.
The event joins the processes of systematizing existing debates around African-American ideological and political thought and invites emancipatory dialogue among academics, researchers, teachers, communicators, artists, and activists.
The agenda proposes the following thematic axes: Maroon Epistemologies, Cultural and Political Insurgencies in Afro-America, and includes festivals, conferences, and gatherings of black writers and artists, as well as their contributions to trans-Africanism.
Other topics will also revolve around the decolonizing work of periodicals and Afro-descendant intellectual networks; the themes of Women at the Center of History; Black Feminisms, Yesterday and Today; and Towards a New Pan-Africanism? An Examination of XX-Century Experiences.
The program also includes: Frantz Fanon (1925-1961); Patricio Lumumba (1925-1961) and Malcolm X (1925-1965): legacies and teachings.
The structure of the academic scheme of the event will present the modalities: Individual presentations, Panels Audiovisual materials, Presentation of books or editorial collections. (Text and photo: PL)
