Name: Curating the Caribbean & Its Diasporas
Start: 2026-02-13T12:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-02-13T13:30:00-05:00
Location: Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs

Join us for iWitness Lunch Break in the Green School Gallery in the Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs at FIU MMC.
About this Event

Meet cultural curators Ludlow Bailey (Managing Director of Contemporary African Diaspora Art (CADA), Tayina Deravile (Manager of Girl’s Club) and Imani Warren (Filmmaker, artist, and curator of Black Beauty as Resistance) who will engage in a dialog with Marianne Lamonaca (Humanities Edge-FIU) about the curation of diasporic voices. Against the backdrop of the exhibition , this panel of experts will discuss how Caribbean visual narratives often allow for the interrogation of power, memory and forgetting.

Performance by Global Sociocultural Studies doctoral candidate A’Keitha Carey. Music by DJ Mack.

Lunch will be served.

Partners

Haitian Cultural Arts Alliance

Humanities Edge

FIU African and African Diaspora Studies

FIU Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center

Sponsor

Green Family Foundation

Image credit:Tropics with Colored Men by Edouard Duval-Carré

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