Events:
                                                                                                                        

The Project on African Expressive Traditions (POAET) & ArtsWeek 2008 Present

The Poet & the Emperor: Power and the Arts in Nigeria & Beyond

February 25, 2008 Lilly Library

5:00pm – A Reading by
               Akin Adesokan
Nigerian novelist, journalist and IU
Comparative Literature professor Adesokan
will read from his 2004 debut novel, Roots
in the Sky.   Fellow journalist and scholar,
Harvard Professor Biodun Jeyifo will respond.

6:30pm – Reception & Exhibit
               of works by Professors
              Adesokan & Jeyifo

 7:15pm – A Conversation with
               Akin Adesokan &
               Biodun Jeyifo
Akin Adesokan and Biodun Jeyifo, both writers, scholars, activists and outspoken critics of the oppressive Nigerian  regimes from the 1980’s to the present, will discuss issues of writing, the state, and politics in Nigeria, Africa, and beyond.

                                                                                                           

                    Akin Adesokan worked for many years as a journalist,
                         beginning with The Guardian (Lagos), and the
                         initially clandestine newsmagazine, TEMPO. 
                         Following his political detention in Nigeria, he won the
                         PEN Freedom-to-Write Award(1998) and the
                         Hellman/Hammett Award from Human Rights Watch
                         (1999).  Roots in the Sky won the Association of
                         Nigerian  Authors’ prize for Fiction in 1996.  He is co-
                         editor of the Lagos-based journal, Glendora Review. 
 

Biodun Jeyifo, Professor of Literature & African Studies
at Harvard and Cornell Universities, is a pre-eminent
scholar of African literatures, a  journalist and long-time
political activist.  He publishes widely on African drama,
the postcolonial predicament, and Marxist theory. 
 

POAET thanks the IU African Studies Program & the Lilly Library for their support of this event.

 
                                                                                                                         

The Project on African Expressive Traditions(POAET) presents

CONVERSATIONS:
2007  POAET Grantees Report
on their Research

9am – 12pm, Friday January 25, 2008
Ballantine #005        

      

 Bagels & coffee will be available from 8:45 am

Panel I    Religion and  Public Culture   9:00-9:35 am
Jennifer Hart  Personal History & the Public Culture of Religion
        in Madina, Ghana

Panel II     Framing Art in the Americas    9:45-10:45 am
Sara Mandel  Jules Lion, “Free Man of Color” in la Nouvelle Orléans

Selina Morales  The Nostalgic Landscapes of the Botánica

Panel III  Women and Popular Culture   11:00 am-12:00 pm
Teri Klassen   Quiltmaking as a Realm of Interracial Expression

Shelley-Jean  Bradfield  Imagining the Image: Women, Television
         and Nation in a Democratic South Africa

 

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