conference

[Doug Millison]

"Not So Plain as Black and White:  A Multidisciplinary
Examination of the Afro-German Experience"

This conference on the Afro-German experience will be held at
the State University of New York at Buffalo's North Campus
October 12 and 13, 2000.  Africans have been in Germany
since the 1400s, and Afro-German children have been born to
couples as diverse as German colonial settlers and African
women and African American GIs and their German "Frolleins"
after World War II.  Today there are 500,000 Afro-Germans.
Speakers will address the questions of race, identity, and
belonging that have emerged in this context.  Professor Anne
Adams of Cornell's Department of Africana Studies will give
the keynote speech, "The Souls of Black Volk." To begin the
meeting, "Everything Will Be Fine," an award-winning comedy
about Afro-Germans today, will be shown at Hallwalls Oct. 12
at 8 p.m. A full day of presentations and films will follow
on Oct. 13 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the university's North
Campus and from 8 to 10 p.m. at Hallwalls. For information
contact Patricia Mazon,(716) 645-2181 x 584, (716) 645-5954
(fax) or mazon at acsu.buffalo.edu.