Spring 2007 Events
Baraza: African Studies Program Seminar
Date: International Commons, University Capitol Center (UCC 1117).
World Percussion Concert
Date: May 5, 2007
Co-sponsored by: Caribbean, Diaspora and Atlantic Studies Program & School of Music
Presenter: RAy Holman, Composer/Performer of Trinidad
Steeldrum Workshop and Presentation
Date:May 2, 2007
Co-sponsoredby: Caribbean, Diaspora and Atlantic Studies Program & School of Music
Presenter: Ray Holman, Composer/Performer of Trinidad
Baraza: Tunisia: Gender and the Law -- a Half Century of Progress
Date: April 16, 2007
Presenter: Adrien Wing, Bessie Dutton Murray Professor & Associate Dean for Faculty Development, UI College of Law
Baraza: Move over Boys, the Girls are Here!: Hip Hop and Gendered Identities in East Africa
Date: April 9, 2007
Presenter: Mwenda Ntarangwi, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Augustana College
Baraza: Film screening on Angola (title TBA)
Date: March 19, 2007
Introduction by: Nanette Barkey, Assistant Professor, UI Depts. of Anthropology and Community & Behavioral Health
Public Lecture/Panel Discussion on Human Rights in the Sudan
Date: February 26, 2007
Co-sponsored by: Sudanese Community Services, UI Libraries, and the UI Center for Human Rights
Keynote Speaker: Sharon Hutchinson, Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Baraza: Preserving Africa's Orphaned Generation
Date: February 19, 2007
Presenter: Alan Brody, Ph.D, (former) UNICEF Representative in Swaziland
Darwin's Nightmare
Date: February 14, 2007
Film screening followed by a lecture entitled Death and the Maidens: 22 Reflections on Sauper's Darwin's Nightmare, 10 reflections on Jean-Pierre Bekolo's Les Saignantes
Co-sponsored by: Dept. of French & Italian, Dept. of English, and Caribbean, Diaspora, and Atlantic Studies Program).
Presenter: Kenneth Harrow, Professor, Dept. of English, Michigan State University
Before and After: the Attempt at a Radical Critique of African Cinema; the Attempt at an Answer Public Lecture
Date: February 13, 2007
Co-sponsored by: Dept. of French & Italian, Dept. of English, and Caribbean, Diaspora, and Atlantic Studies Program)
Presenter: Kenneth Harrow, Professor, Dept. of English, Michigan State University
Baraza: African (Im)migration in/and Postcolonial France
Date: January 29, 2007
Presenter: Michele Laronde, Associate Professor, UI Dept. of French & Italian