BEGIN:VCALENDAR CALSCALE:GREGORIAN VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Drupal iCal API//EN X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU DTSTART:20070311T020000 TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU DTSTART:20071104T020000 TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 X-APPLE-TRAVEL-ADVISORY-BEHAVIOR:AUTOMATIC 108631 20231116T084112Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231127T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:2 0231127T170000 URL;TYPE=URI:/news/calendar/events/meet- author-africana-studies-professor-trent-masiki Meet the Author: Africana Studies Professor Trent Masiki WPI Africana Studies Professor Trent Masiki will discuss his new book, The Afro-Latino Memoir(UNC Press 2023),in a conversation with Prof. Jorge Santos (Holy Cross) from 4-5pm, Monday November 27 in the Gordon Library Conference Room.\nProf. Masiki joined WPIin 2022 as Assistant Professor of Africana Studies (Social Science \& Policy Studies). His research focuses on the social, historical, and intercultural ties that bind African Americans to other communities of African descent in the US, Africa, and the African diaspora. His 2023 book, The Afro-Latino Memoir,brings critical attention to the understudied African American influences in Afro-Latino memoirs published after the advent of the Black Arts movement.\nLight refreshments will welcome in-person guests, and attendees at WPI and beyond will be welcomed online via zoom: https://wpi.zoom.us/j/95113607380\nWe hope you can join us for this first Meet the Author event of the 23-24 year!\n\n END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR