A collaboration between the Department of Ethnic and Race Studies, and BMCC Randolph Library, Afropolitan: Recent African Cinema examines the pressing social, cultural, economic, and historical issues explored by African filmmakers from the early post-colonial years into the new millennium. Offering an overview of the development of postcolonial African cinema since the 1960s. This...
Eldar Sarajlic is an applied philosopher. He has a Ph.D. from Central European University (CEU) in Budapest. His research interests are personal identity, public policy, and critical thinking and reasoning. His work appeared in the Journal of Applied Philosophy, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, American Journal of Bioethics,...
February 4, 2014 On February 24, Ethnic Studies Professor Zetta Elliott will present a talk in the Canada Seminar at the Weatherhead Center for International Studies at Harvard University. “I left Canada 20 years ago in part because I wasn't able to get published and didn't have the option of studying with Black scholars...
BMCC student Kuhinur Jahan (Left) and Professor Zetta Elliott (Right) December 17, 2013 “The Black Man in Contemporary Society,” a course offered through BMCC’s Center for Ethnic Studies, was taught this semester by professor and author Zetta Elliott.“Some of you are probably surprised to come in and see me at the front of the...
November 8, 2013 With a warm and resonant “Buon Giorno!” Professor Tom Means of the Modern Languages Department welcomed attendees to BMCC’s Italian-American Heritage Month festivities on October 17. The annual celebration of all things Italian featured a dramatic reading of Dante’s Inferno, the 13th-century epic poem, by New York City actor Alessio Bordoni;...
July 25, 2012 In a myth dating back to pre-Columbian times, the world is robbed of its colors by a villain. A butterfly turns into a young girl named Are, who sets out on a magical journey through numerous “kingdoms of color” with a single mission: to wrest back the colors and restore them...
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Professor Klement Teixeira has been appointed chair of the Mathematics Intensive / College Mathematics Committee.
