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October 28, 2025 - CBESA Curates FLUP 2025 in Rio de Janeiro
For the second year in a row, the Center for Black European Studies & the Atlantic (CBESA) will curate the international portion of the FLUP Literary Festival in Rio de Janeiro.
October 10-11, 2025 - Middle Ground: Festa Literária das Periferias
In 2025, for its third edition, Middle Ground partners with Festa Literária das Periferias (FLUP), a festival born in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, to ask: what does it mean to write from the experience of rupture?
November 19-30, 2025 - CBESA is Curating FLUP, the Rio de Janeiro Literary Festival
Brazil and the Caribbean share deep historical roots: both were shaped by the Black diaspora, marked by colonial exploitation, and permeated by a legacy that gave rise to ideas capable of re-enchanting the world.
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September 19, 2025 - Dr. Michael McEachrane and UN delegation in Colombia at the invitation of Vice-President Francia Márquez
CBESA's Michael McEchrane visits Columbia with a delegation of the United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent.Curated by CBESA
We Were Here: The Untold Story of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe
March 28, 2025
McConomy Auditorium, CMU
