Please join us for the upcoming lecture by Dr. Aisha Finch, Associate Professor of Gender Studies & Afro-American Studies at UCLA. Dr. Finch will speak on “Black Magic: Sacred Worlds, Embodied Pleasures, and the Practice of Freedom on the Cuban Plantation” on May 17 at 5 p.m. in Humanities Gateway (HG) 1010.

Dr. Finch is the author of Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba: La Escalera and the Insurgencies of 1841-1844 (University of North Carolina Press, 2015), and winner, of the Harriet Tubman Book Prize, Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 2016.