With generous support from DMLL, Ethnic Studies, and the Baker-Nord Institute for the Humanities, Dr. Arwa Awan visited from Oberlin on April 23, 2025, to deliver a talk on the celebrated poet Aimé Césaire’s notion of “Tropical Marxism” developed out of his early-career readings of Marx’s humanist writings and cross-cultural dialogue with intellectuals and artists at the 1968 Cultural Congress of Havana.