(Archived Friday Bulletin)
AFRICAN
STUDIES PROGRAM
FRIDAY
BULLETIN
NOVEMBER 16, 2007
Contents
3.
Conferences
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 COMING UP AFTER THE THANKSGIVING BREAK: Monday, November 26 Representatives from all of the IU Title VI Centers will be present to provide information about their Centers and the FLAS fellowships, and will answer questions. Tuesday, November 27 Laura Arntson, Senior Global Health Fellow, Nigeria – USAID Tuesday, November 27 VISIT: www.indiana.edu/~careers to register. Business attire required.
PRESENTERS:
2. Announcements of Interest
Foreign Language and Area Studies Applications Thursday, December 6 Featuring The Mahluli McCutchen Quintet (Fareed Mahluli, tenor sax; Marlin McCay, trumpet; Keith McCutchen, piano; Charleston (Deno) Sanders, drums; and Frank Smith, bass). Join the African American Arts Institute and adjunct AAADS faculty (Mahluli, IU Soul Review, and McCutchen, African American Choral Ensemble) for an evening of jazz at Bear’s. Admission $6.00. Experience sounds randing from Coltrane to Najee, as well as original compositions by each band member.
3. Conferences
Fifth Black Atlantic Community Conference The Black Atlantic Community Conference is an annual forum bringing together scholars and thinkers to reflect on issues and concerns related to people of African descent. Sponsored by the Department of Humanities of Central State University, the objective of the series is to promote and expand public awareness, scholarship and research in the area of Black Atlantic Community studies. Themes and discussions will focus on achieving a qualitative and quantitative impact on the various Black Atlantic micro-communities in the Diaspora as well as on the African continent. Submissions are invited for papers and panels from scholars, faculty members, graduate and undergraduate students. Papers may be on any aspect of the theme, however, organizers are particularly interested in papers that explore the experience of Black people as they have and continue to navigate the spatial world within the world of Black and pan-African reality in the areas of: history, culture, literature, religion, politics, social organization, race relations, gender, internet networking, psychology, performing arts, etc. Contributions may be historical, theoretical, empirical, or comparative. Innovative approaches are especially welcome. Additional topics organizers are especially interested in, include: The 50th anniversary of Chinua Achebe’s “When Things Fall Apart,” Black Internet Activities, Blacks in Science Fiction, Reactions to James Watson’s remarks. Paper contributions should be for a 20-minute presentation. Acceptance of a submission implies a commitment to register for and attend the Conference. Registration fees are: $50; $10 for students. Deadline for submission of abstract and/or papers: January 15, 2008 with notification of acceptance. to be made by March 10, 2008. Mail or e-mail your proposals for panels and papers (with abstracts of about 150 words), as well as a brief c.v. to: Dr. Anthony Milburn, Black Atlantic Community Conference, Department of Humanities, P.O. Box 1004, Wilberforce, Ohio 45384. E-mail: amilburn@centralstate.edu Phone: 937-376-6151; FAX: 937-376-6029, or Professor Obiwu Iwuanyanwu, Black Atlantic Community Conference, Department of the Humanities, P.O. Box 104, Wilberforce, OH 45384. E-mail: oiwuanyanwu@centralstate.edu Phone: 937-376-6215; FAX 937-376-6029.
AFRICAN STUDIES NOONTALKS
FALL 2007
Woodburn
Hall 218, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Titles
will be added as they become available.
September 18 Elizabeth Perrill, Art History September 25 Michael Reece, HPER October 2 Kate Schroeder, LibraryR October 9 Gracia Clark, Anthropology October 16 Takyiwaa Manuh, African Studies, University of Ghana October 30 Jessica Hurd, African Art History November 6 Ruth Stone, Folklore/Ethnomusicology, and Verlon Stone, Liberia Collections November 13 November 20 Stephen Ndegwa, World Bank November 27 Laura Arntson, Senior Global Health Specialist, US-AID Nigeria "Curriculum for Community Integration for Children with Developmental Disabilities in Tanzania"
“TEACHING ABOUT AFRICA”
FALL SEMINAR
SCHEDULE
Wednesday
5:30-7:30pm, Woodburn 218
September 5 James
Delehanty (Univ. of Wisconsin): “Mapping Contemporary Africa.”
October 3 John
Aden (Wabash College): “Roots and Branches: Historical Overview to 1870.”
October 16 (Tuesday) Takyiwaa Manuh (University of Ghana):
“Empowering Women? Passing Domestic Violence Legislation in Ghana?”
Note:
This seminar will be presented in the Tuesday Noontalk series
12:00
p.m., WH 221)
October 31 Tracy
Luedke (Northeastern Illinois University): “Health and Society.”
November 7 MOVED TO TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20
November 14 Karen
T. Hansen (Northwestern U.): “Urbanism as African Ways of Life: Thematics for an Exploration of Changing Urban Livelihoods in the Time of Globalization”
December 6 Paul
Zeleza (Univ. of Illinois-Chicago): “Education.”
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