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AFRICAN STUDIES PROGRAM

FRIDAY BULLETIN

APRIL 4, 2008

Contents

1.       Upcoming Events

2.       Announcements of Interest

3.       Jobs, Fellowships and other Opportunities

4.       Conferences

5.       Noontalks schedule

6.       Seminar schedule

NOTE:  If you have announcements or information appropriate for the Bulletin, please send it to us by 5:00 p.m. on Thursdays.

1. Upcoming Events

Tuesday Noon Talks
12:00-1:00 p.m. - Woodburn 218
Tuesday, April 8
12:00-1:00 p.m., WH 218
Verlon Stone, Indiana University Liberia Collections
            “Selecting Digital Equipment for Field Work: Video, Photo & Audio”

Wednesday Seminar
“Fieldnotes in African Research”
Wednesday, April 9
5:30-7:30 p.m., Woodburn 218
Anaba Anankyela Alemna, Library and Library Science, University of Ghana
            “Field Notes and the Library”

Please join us for light refreshments before the talk at 5:00 p.m. in Woodburn 221

Ghana Jubilee Symposium
Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, Grand Hall
Friday, April 4
1:00 – 5:00 p.m.         SEE SCHEDULE ATTACHED AT END OF BULLETIN

African Music and Dance Ensemble
Every Friday!!
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Neal Marshall Black Culture Center – Room A219

The African Studies Outreach Program and the Neal Marshall Black Culture Center are organizers of this event, taking place each Friday evening during the semester.  The music/dance instructor is Kwesi Brown (kwebrown@indiana.edu).

Swahili Conversation Hour
Monday, April 7
1:15 p.m. -  Woodburn 221

Bamana Conversation Hour
Thursday, 6:00 p.m.
The Pour House (www.thepourhousecafe.com)         

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2.  Announcements of Interest

African American Arts Institute Spring Concerts

I. African American Dance Company Spring Concert Iris Rosa, Director

Friday, April 4, 8:00 pm, Buskirk-Chumley Theater

II. IU Soul Revue Spring Concert Nathanael Fareed Mahluli, Director

Saturday, April 12, 8:00 pm Buskirk-Chumley Theater

Tickets for all three concerts are $15 for adults, $10 for children and students, and $5 for IU students with advance purchase (limit 2 per ID). Tickets are available at the Sunrise Box Office, 114 E. Kirkwood.

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3. Jobs, Fellowships and Other Opportunities

Clark University, Worcester, MA Position
The Department of International Development, Community and Environment (IDCE) at Clark University seeks an instructor or assistant professor for a one-year visiting position in the International Development and Social Change scholar-practitioner program for the 2008-09 academic year. Responsibilities include teaching 4-5 courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Possible courses include:  undergraduate level Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Introduction to International Development or Research Methods, and Master’s level practitioner-oriented seminars. 

The candidate will also have some advising responsibilities for both undergraduate and graduate students.   A candidate who can convert fieldwork and practitioner experience into classroom content is particularly welcome. Primary areas of expertise may include two or more of the following: conflict/post-conflict and development, involuntary migration, environment, humanitarian assistance, food security, community participation and empowerment, and non-governmental organizations. Discipline and geographical area are open.  Candidates with a Ph.D. or equivalent in any relevant discipline and work experience in international development are invited to apply.

To apply, please send a letter of interest, curriculum vitae with list of references, and a brief description of potential courses or teaching interests, electronically to:  jjohnstone@clark.edu or mailed to:  Chair, IDSC Search Committee, IDCE, Clark University, 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA  01610.  E-mail is preferred; follow-up hard copy is not required.  For more information about Clark University, visit the website:  www.clarku.edu

Albion College History Position
The History Department at Albion College invites applications for a one-year position in African history to begin August 2008 (with possible opening of a tenure track position, pending approval). Preference for candidates with Ph.D. and teaching experience. Teaching responsibilities will include an introductory survey of African history and advanced classes on topics of interest to the appointee. Course load is three per semester. Albion College is a selective liberal arts college of 1850 students located in a small, culturally diverse community in south-central Michigan within an hour’s drive of major universities. Send letter of application, vita, graduate transcript, and three letters of reference to: Deborah Kanter, Chair, Department of History, Albion College, 611 E. Porter St., Albion, MI 49224. Review of applications will begin on April 14 and continue until position is filled. Albion College is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity as a core institutional value.

Premier Foreign Language Firm – Language Instructors
MultiLingual Solutions, Inc. seeks language instructors with proficiency equivalent to an educated native speaker, to teach the following languages:  Hausa, Tuareg/Tamasheq and Swahili.

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4.  Conferences

IU School of Law:  Spring Conference

While there will not be any regionally-focused issues, discussions on customary law and human rights and international law principles are relevant to the region. Complete information is on the websites:  www.law.indiana.edu/front/special/2008_global_conference.shtml and www.law.indiana.edu/front/special/2008_customary_law/

“Individual and Customary International Law Formation Conference”

Friday, April 4 – Saturday April 5, 2008
Law School, 1st Floor Lobby and Moot Court Room
Coffee & Pastries 8:30 a.m. -9:00 a.m. (Friday; 9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. (Saturday)
            Friday Panels:
            10:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.           Making ancient trans-border custom: the history and players
            1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.              The individual and customary international law formation
            3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.              Making law from below

            Saturday Panel
            10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.          Finding custom: possibilities and obstacles.

SPEA International Public Affairs Association Conference
April 11, 2008

“Topics in Public Affairs”, organized by the International Public Affairs Association at SPEA, will feature a range of faculty and students both in SPEA and from other departments.  There will be 5 panels on the following topics:  social inclusion, NGOs, the environment, conflict, and international political economy.  All panels are free and open to all.

Registration and breakfast begins at 8:00 a.m. in the SPEA Atrium.  Panels run between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. in Kelly Business School, Room 201.  Please contact Jen Pearl at jenpearl@indiana.edu if you have any questions.

Joint international conference, University of Auckland, New Zealand
The Association of Social Anthropologists (ASA) of the UK, the Association of Social Anthropologists (ASAANZ) of Aotearoa/New Zealand, and the Australian Anthropological Society (AAS) are combining their annual meetings for a joint international conference on “Ownership and Appropriation”.

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AFRICAN STUDIES NOONTALKS

February 19     John Prendergast – Co-Founder of the “Enough Campaign”, a joint initiative
                        Of the International Crisis Group and the Center for American Progress.
                        “Stopping Genocide in Darfur”
                        NOTE: CHANGE OF VENUE FOR THIS TALK: OAK ROOM, IMU

February 26     Summer Tritt (IU-SLIS)  “Understanding the Digital Divide in Sub-Saharan
                       Africa:  Connections between Information Access and National Development.”

March 4           Samuel Obeng, African Studies, Linguistics
                        "Ghanaian Political Criticism through Hip-Life: Textuality, Contextuality,
                        and Intertextuality”

March 11         SPRING BREAK

March 18         Richard Werbner, Manchester
                        “Ethnographic Film-making as Discovery: The Quest Trilogy”

March 24         MONDAY:  5:30-7:30 p.m.   Paul Zeleza, University of Illinois, Chicago
                        “Education in Africa”

April 1             Tristan Purvis, Linguistics Department
                       “Linguistic Features of Oral History of the Dagomba:
                        Planned Discourse, and the Differences Between Speech and Writing”

April 8             Verlon Stone, Indiana University Liberia Collections
                        “Selecting Digital Equipment for Field Work: Video, Photo & Audio”

April 15           Kathryn McHarry, University of Chicago
                        “Institutonalization of the WHO’s Child Health Standards in La Case des Tout
                        Petits (Senegal)”

Special Talk:
April 21           MONDAY:  2:30  Adewale Maja-Pearce, writer/publisher (Nigeria)

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“FIELDNOTES IN AFRICAN RESEARCH”

African Studies Wednesday Seminar
Fieldnotes in African Research
(Marion Frank-Wilson and Ruth M. Stone)

Wednesdays 5:30-7:30, WH 218

Speakers:
February 20--Steven Raymer, Journalism, Indiana University
                        “The Documentary Photographer: Writing with Light”

February 27--Peter M. Chilson, English and Creative Writing, Washington State University
                        “Romancing the Archivist: A Cautionary Dispatch from West Africa”

March 19--Kate Schroeder, History/Library, and Austin Okigbo, Folklore and Ethnomusicology
                        “Recent Experiences with Fieldnotes”

March 26--Daniel Reed, Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University
                        “Fieldnotes: For Whom and What For?”

April 2--David Henige, Library, African Studies, and Anthropology, University of Wisconsin
                        “Fieldnotes Past and Present”

April 9--Anaba Anankyela Alemna, Library and Library Science, University of Ghana, Ghana
                        “Fieldnotes and the Library”

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In Celebration of the
50TH ANNIVERSARY OF GHANA’S INDEPENDENCE

Indiana University African Studies Program
And
Graduate Students in African Studies

Present

March 4          Tuesday          Saakumu with Bernard Woma in Concert
                        7:30 pm                      Performance, Wilkie Auditorium                           
                                   
March 21        Friday             Love Brewed in the African Pot
                        7pm                             A Film by Kwaw Ansah
Woodburn Hall 120
                       
April 4            Friday             Ghana Jubilee Symposium
                                                            Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center Grand Hall

                        1:00pm           What Ghana Means to U
                                                Roundtable Discussion by local
                                                            Ghanaian students and faculty

                        2:15pm           Using the Past for the Present and the Future:
                                                Ghana's 50th Independence Celebrations
                                                            Lecture by Professor Kofi Baku
                                                            University of Ghana, Legon
                                               
                        3:30pm           In Search of Hannah Kudjoe:  Nationalism,
                                                Feminism, and the Tyrannies of History
                                                            Lecture by Professor Jean Allman
                                                            Washington University, St Louis
                                               
April 12          Saturday        Midawo Gideon Foli Alorwoyie with his
                        7:30pm           Afrikania Culture Troupe
                                                Opening Performance by the Osagyefo Dance Ensemble
                                                Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center Grand Hall

All Events are Free and Open to the Public
For further information please contact the African Studies Program at 812/855-8284 or 855-5081