Events

Join us for a talk with João Reis from the Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil and Roquinaldo Ferreira, Brown University that will talk about Africa in Brazil Africans represent the single largest group of arrivals in Brazil, a country that today boasts the largest Afro-descendant population in the world outside of Nigeria. In this presentation, historians João Reis and Roquinaldo Ferreira discuss the arrivals’ ethnic origins in Africa, their response/resistance to slavery, and their contribution to the formation of a national culture in conversation with Jose Moya, Director, Barnard’s Forum on Migration and Columbia’s Institute of Latin American Studies. The talk will be held on Thursday, October 25, 2018 6 pm at the Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd floor Barnard Hall (3009 Broadway, at W. 117 St. crosswalk, NY).