12th annual FIU Eric Williams Lecture focuses on Haiti Reconstruction

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The 12th Annual Eric E. Williams Memorial Lecture at FIU will take place Friday, October 15, at 6:30 p.m., as part of FIU’s African & African Diaspora Studies Program. Due to the catastrophic devastation wrought by the January 2010 Haiti earthquake, this year’s Distinguished Africana Scholars Lecture, “The Renaissance of [...]

Former prime minister of Jamaica headlining Eric E. Williams Memorial Lecture

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Portia Simpson Miller, former prime minister of Jamaica, will be speaking at FIU Nov. 6 for the 11th Annual Eric E. Williams Memorial Lecture. The event, which is free and open to the public, begins at 6:30 p.m. at the Wertheim Performing Arts Center at Modesto A. Maidique Campus. The [...]