"Transforming the Culture of Conflict Through the Body: Capoeira Brain Food Symposium"
The MPEVULA! Coalition and the Ngolo Arts Preservation Society, UCLA Office of the Dean of the School of Art & Architecture, and UCLA Vice Chancellor of Graduate Studies present an all-day symposium.
Friday, October 03, 2008
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
UCLA Glorya Kaufman Hall
Kaufman Theatre, Room 200
UCLA campus
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Presentations by:
Professor C. Daniel Dawson - Fist Against Fist is Irrational: The African Philosophical Influence in American Aesthetics
9:30am - 10:30am
Mestre Pedro Moraes Trinidade - The Last Malungos: "Free" Africans from the Angola Nation in Bahia
10:30am - 11:30am
Dr. T.J. Desch Obi - African Martial Arts Traditions in the Atlantic World
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Jason Gregory Isaacs - "Let the Circle Be Unbroken" Reverence and Revelations
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Transportation options to UCLA, campus map, directions, visit www.ucla.edu/map
For more information: www.myspace.com/ngoloarts or www.ngoloarts.com or call 310.989.1269.
Cost: Free and open to the public; pay-by-space and all-day ($9) parking available in lot 4.
Special Instructions
Enter campus at Westwood and Sunset Blvd.
For more information please contact
MPEVULA! Coalition or Ngolo Arts Preservation Society
Tel: 310-989-1269
giavanni.ucla@gmail.com
www.ngoloarts.com
Sponsor(s): The MPEVULA! Coalition and the Ngolo Arts Preservation Society, UCLA Office of the Dean of the School of Art & Architecture, and UCLA Vice Chancellor of Graduate Studies. Information about non-ASC events is posted for informational purposes and does not necessarily reflect opinions of or endorsements by African Studies personnel.
