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AFRICAN STUDIES PROGRAM

FRIDAY BULLETIN

APRIL 11, 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 15
12:00-1:00 p.m., WH 218
Kathryn McHarry, University of Chicago
            “Childcraft: The Biopolitics of Human Capital and National Development
in Senegal”

Wednesday Seminar
“Fieldnotes in African Research”
Wednesday, April 23
5:30-7:30 p.m., Woodburn 218
            The next seminar speaker will be on April 23.

Ghana Jubilee:  Midawo Gideon Foli Alorwoyie
Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, Grand Hall
Saturday, April 12
7:30 p.m.         SEE SCHEDULE ATTACHED AT END OF BULLETIN

African Librarianship – Special Friday Talk
April 11
3:00 p.m., SLIS Room 001

“Issues in African Librarianship”
Anaba Alemna, University Librarian, University of Ghana, Legon

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 14
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 Concert
IU Soul Revue Spring Concert
Nathanael Fareed Mahluli, Director
            Saturday, April 12, 8:00 pm Buskirk-Chumley Theater

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3. Jobs, Fellowships and Other Opportunities

[no new announcements this week]

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4.  Conferences

[no new announcement. Please visit the upcoming conferences page for current listings.]

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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
                       “Childcraft: The Biopolitics of Human Capital and National Development in 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