The Dean’s Award for Research Excellence (DARE) provides Liberal Arts & Professional Studies undergraduate students with the opportunity to engage in research supervised by a faculty member. Over the summer months, selected students develop their research skills through the investigation of a research area of interest. Of the 2019-2020 awardees, six are Tubman […]
The Tubman Speaker Series is pleased to present Dr. Frank Luce and Dr. Robert Faris and their talk on Protestant missionaries in Angola and Mozambique on Thursday, March 27th at 3:30pm in 305 York Lanes. In this talk, Luce and Faris will discuss how Protestant missionaries in Angola and Mozambique were mistrusted by colonial authorities because […]
The Angola Resgate Group, York University, announces three Angola: Then and Now panels at the Inaugural Meeting of the Lusophone Studies Association (LSA)York University, October 29th to November 1st, 2013 Angola: Then and Now Thursday, October 31, 2013 9:30 – 10:45 Panel 1: (Angola 1): Methodological Questions in the Angolan Past Chair: Maria João Dodman, DLLL, […]
Canadian Association of African Studies Annual Meeting – CAAS 2013 Carleton University, Ottawa: May 1 to 3, 2013 Friday, May 3rd, 9:00am-10:30am Panel III.A.2 – Daily Life in a Slaving Port Town: Marrying, Living and Dying in Benguela Organizer/Organisatrice: Vanessa S. Oliveira (York University)Chair/Presidence: Dr. Frank Luce – (York University) Marriage in Benguela, 1798-1828Dr. […]
Four part video filmed during the Angola Field Group Presentation on November 29, 2012 at the Viking Club: “Fighting against Enslavement: José Manuel and Nbena in Benguela, 1816-1818”, presented by José C. Curto. The first two videos feature Professor Curto’s introduction with background on José Manuel and Nbena. The second two videos feature Nbena’s story. […]
