An Evening with Transition Magazine
featuring
GAIUTRA BAHADUR
VIVEK BALD
ROSHAN GALVAAN
KRISHNA LEWIS
IBRAHIM K. SUNDIATA
discussing Issue #119, Afro-Asian Worlds
DateMay
16
Monday
May 16, 2016 7:00 PM ET |
LocationHarvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Tickets
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Harvard Book Store is pleased to host an evening with Transition magazine for the launch of Issue #119, Afro-Asian Worlds, featuring panelists GAIUTRA BAHADUR, VIVEK BALD, ROSHAN GALVAAN, KRISHNA LEWIS, and IBRAHIM K. SUNDIATA.
Issue 119 examines historical and contemporary moments of cultural encounter in communities on the Indian Ocean and to the East; from Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania to China. Guest Editor Krishna Lewis presents a glimpse of cross cultural interaction in these spaces. The evening’s discussion hopes to further the issue’s conversations on gender, identity, and displacement and on reconstructing histories and trajectories across the Afro-Asian and Indian Ocean worlds.
Copies of Transition 119 will be on hand to purchase at a special promotional price. The issue features contributions to the Afro-Asian Worlds cluster from M. G. Vassanji, Erin Haney, Jatin Dua, Steven Nelson, Bill V. Mullen, and Lisa María Burgess. The issue also highlights activism in its various forms, with insights from multiple generations of civil rights leaders in St. Louis, Missouri; startling statistics about the history of solitary confinement in the U.S. prison system; and a portrait of undersung South African poet and activist, Edward Vincent Swart.
Walking from the Harvard Square T station: 2 minutes
As you exit the station, reverse your direction and walk east along Mass. Ave. in front of the Cambridge Savings Bank. Cross Dunster St. and proceed along Mass. Ave for three more blocks. You will pass Au Bon Pain, JP Licks, and TD Bank. Harvard Book Store is located at the corner of Mass. Ave. and Plympton St.
Born in Africa and bred in the diaspora, Transition is a unique forum for the freshest, most compelling, most curious ideas about race. Since its founding in Uganda in 1961, the magazine has kept apace of the rapid transformation of the black world and has remained a leading forum of intellectual debate. Now, in an age that demands ceaseless improvisation, they aim to be both an anchor of deep reflection on black life and a map charting new routes through the globalized world.
Transition is a publication of the Hutchins Center at Harvard University, published three times annually by Indiana University Press. Find Transition on Twitter at @Transition_Mag and on the web at http://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/transition. Transition partners with Harvard Book Store several times a year for a discussion based on their latest issue.
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