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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Greetings,<br>
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Please join the </span><span style=""><a href="http://brazil.qc.cuny.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Year of Brazil</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US">'s Speaker Series:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="0000FF" size="3"><b><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://brazil.qc.cuny.edu/event/a-refuge-in-thunder/" target="_blank"><span style="" lang="EN-US">A Refuge in Thunder:</span></a><font color="0000FF">
</font>The Evolution and Significance of Brazilian Candomblé</span></b></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Candomblé is a religion that embraces a rich, poetic complex of ritual action, cosmology, and meaning. It has deep roots in several religious traditions of West Africa and West Central Africa, especially Aja-Fon, Bantu,
and the Yoruba Orisha practice. It is a (re)creation of these traditions, in addition to synthesizing aspects of Islam, Indigenous Indian spiritual practices and Catholicism. Candomble evolved within the matrix of slavery, colonialism and mercantilism, which
characterized Brazil from the sixteenth through nineteenth century.</span></p>
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Speaker: <b>Rachel Elizabeth Harding</b>, is a specialist in religions of the Afro-Atlantic diaspora and studies the relationship between religion and social justice activism in cross-cultural perspective.She holds an MFA in creative writing from Brown
University and a PhD in history from the University of Colorado.<br>
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<font size="3">Date: Wednesday, December 4th, 2013</font></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><b><span lang="EN-US">Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm<br>
Location: Campbell Dome</span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
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Download flyer </span><span style=""><a href="http://brazil.qc.cuny.edu/files/2013/10/YoB_Flyer_RacheHarding_Dec-4th.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="" lang="EN-US">here</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US">.<br>
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Important note: Recommended Readings are available on demand from Edisa Weeks, </span>
<span style=""><a href="mailto:edisa.weeks@qc.cuny.edu" target="_blank"><span style="" lang="EN-US">(edisa.weeks@qc.cuny.edu</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US">)<br>
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Best regards,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Cecilia Britez, Program Assistant<br>
Center for Teaching and Learning<br>
718-997-4650<br>
Writing Across the Curriculum<br>
718-997-4695<br>
316 Razran Hall, Queens College / CUNY</span></p>
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