Prof. James Count Early
James Counts Early has served in various positions at the Smithsonian since first coming on board in 1972 as a researcher in Brazil and the Caribbean for the African DiasporaFolklife Festival program. He has served as assistant provost for educational and cultural programs, assistant secretary for education and public service, and interim director of the Anacostia Community Museum. A long-time advocate for cultural diversity and equity issues in cultural and educational institutions, he focuses his research on participatory museology, cultural democracy statecraft policy, capitalist and socialist discourses in cultural policy, and Afro-Latin politics, history, and cultural democracy. He has curated several Folklife Festival programs, including South Africa: Crafting the Economic Renaissance of the Rainbow Nation (1999) and Sacred Sounds: Belief and Society (1997). James holds a B.A. in Spanish from Morehouse College and completed graduate work (A.B.D.) in Latin American and Caribbean history, with a minor in African and African American history, at Howard University.
Sessions in which Prof. James Count Early participates
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
Workshop
Prof. James Count Early, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, United States (Participant)
Prof. Tim Winter, Deakin University (Moderator)
Dr Adèle Esposito, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, UMR AUSser Architecture, Urbanistique, Société, France (Participant)
Zeynep Gunay, Istanbul Technical University (Participant)
Rodney Harrison, University College London (Participant)
Pedro Paulo Funari, Unicamp (Participant)
Prof. Ullrich Kockel, Intercultural Research Centre, Heriot-Watt University (Participant)
Musée des Beaux-Ars de Montréal - Cummings Auditorium
Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
Prof. James Count Early, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, United States (Participant)
Prof. Michelle L. Stefano, University of Maryland, American Studies, United States (Moderator)
Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.270
Roundtable with simultaneous translation / Table ronde avec traduction simultanée
Prof. James Count Early, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, United States (Participant)
Christine Bricault, Conseil québécois du patrimoine vivant (Moderator)
Pierre Chartrand, Conseil québécois du patrimoine vivant (Moderator)
Mme Karine Laviolette, Ministère de la Culture et des Communications (Participant)
Ghislain Picard, Assemblée des Premières Nations du Québec et du Labrador (Participant)
Dr Chiara Bortolotto, Institut interdisciplinaire d’anthropologie du contemporain, France (Participant)
Antoine Gauthier, CQPV (Participant)
Sessions in which Prof. James Count Early attends
La Scena - La Scena (intérieur)
Repas