Ana Lucia Araujo (Professor at Howard University) and Abigail Lapin Dardashti (Assistant Professor at University of California Irvine) are convening the Mellon Democracy and Landscape Initiative Annual Colloquium The South-South Networks of African Diasporic Landscape at Dumbarton Oaks, a Harvard University Research Institutein Washington DC, on October 22-23. Speakers include Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi, Howard University, Suzanne Preston Blier, Harvard University, Cécile Fromont, Harvard University, Alice Heerin, California State University at Stanislaus, Paula Kupfer, University of Pittsburgh, Fernando Lara, University of Pennsylvania, Jacques Aymeric Nsangou, Havard University Center Villa I Tatti and Universität Zürich, Adedoyin Teriba, Cornell University, and Miguel Valerio, University of Maryland. More information here.