(Archived Friday Bulletin)
AFRICAN
STUDIES PROGRAM
FRIDAY
BULLETIN
JANUARY 18, 2008
Contents
3.
Jobs, Fellowships and other Opportunities
4.
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 Wednesday Seminar The Wednesday Seminar is organized this semester by Marion Frank-Wilson and Ruth M. Stone. The schedule of speakers is attached at the end of the Bulletin. African Music and Dance Ensemble The African Studies Outreach Program and the Neal Marshall Black Culture Center are organizers of this event, to take place each Friday evening during the semester. The music/dance instructor is Kwesi Brown (kwebrown@indiana.edu). Swahili Conversation Hour
2. Announcements of Interest
2008 Robert and Avis Burke Lecture Series DEADLINE APPROACHING!!!! Foreign Language and Area Studies Applications AFRICAN STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION EVENTS Event Info Name: BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE! If you have any question or concern please contact us at the following: 317.985.3888 Email: ealemu@indiana.edu Description: For all you that went to last year's party, you know how its going down! This year's party is going to be BIGGER and BETTER!! For those of you that didn't make it last year, come and find out so that you can see what we are all about! If you want more information or directions to the party, make sure you email me or call me: ealemu@indiana.edu or 317-985-3888 ASA FIRST MASS MEETING OF THE SEMESTER: SUNDAY JANUARY 20. THE MEETING WILL BE AT THE USUAL LOCATION: ROOM A201 AT THE NEAL-MARSHALL FROM 5 P.M - 6:30 P.M. POAET “CONVERSATIONS” Panel I: “Religion and Public Culture” 9:00-9:35 a.m. For more information contact Natasha Vaubel: iupoaet@indiana.edu Music and Diversity Concert A unique mixture of musical styles and traditions will be presented when four vibrant music ensembles perform live. Sponsored by the Celebration Committee of the UU Church, the annual Music and Diversity Concert is an event designed to promote tolerance for all cultural beliefs and traditions through offering an enchanting evening of culturally diverse music for the larger community. Music will be provided by Delia Alexander and AcaBella, a multi-part vocal ensemble (music from the African Diaspora), Colleen Haas and her group: Women of Mass Percussion (Afro-Brazilian religious and secular music); and Sheasby Matiure and the Mbria Queens and his Mutinhimira Marimba Ensemble of IU (traditional and popular music from Zimbabwe). The concert is free and open to the public. “Bridgwaters Family Photographs” Exhibition In celebration of IU’s Black history, and in collaboration with the Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday celebration and Black History Month Committees, the African American Arts Institute presents a special exhibition “Bridgwaters Family Photographs in the Bridgwaters Lounge of the NMBCC. The exhibit will open during the opening reception for Black History Month and the closing ceremonies for the Martin Luther King, Jr. birthday celebration, in the Grand Hall of the NMBCC. The exhibit will be accompanied by special programming for Banneker Center of Bloomington to educate children and young adults about the Bridgwaters and their ideals of outstanding achievement and community service. The exhibition will run throughout February. The exhibit is made possible through a City of Bloomington Martin Luther King, Jr. service grant and the support of the Office of the Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Multicultural Affairs. “Worlds Collide: Spirit, Soul and Body: A Spoken Word and Visual Art Event of the African American Arts Institute” Worlds Collide explores the gentle collision of cultural diversity—diversity of age, gender, ethnicity, and art form—through spoken word and visual art. The event features a catered gallery opening of paintings, photography, and sculptures by some of Indiana’s finest visual artists, including Bloomington’s own Wayne Manns and Joel Washington, and IU graduate students Yara Cluver, and Katie Dieter. The opening is followed by spoken word performances by the Philadelphia-based Asian American duo Yellow Rage; poet, writer, educator, and veteran of the Taco Shop Poets Tomas riley; and IU Professor Emeritus Dr. James E. Mumford. The gallery opening begins at 6:00 p.m. in the Ruth N. Halls Theatre in the NMBCC. Spoken word performances begin at 7:00 p.m. in the Grand Hall of the NMBCC.SCALI 2008 The Summer Cooperative African Language Institute for 2008 will again be held at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The website is now active: http://scali.afrst.uiuc.edu Interested students should visit the website and submit an “expression of interest” for the language you want to study. This is very important because it helps SCALI organizers determine what languages will be offered, and at what levels.
3. Jobs, Fellowships and Other
Opportunities
The Project on African Expressive Traditions (POAET) Eligibility: IU undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty who wish to do original research in summer or fall 2008 on aspects of culture in Africa or communities of African descent, including language, literature, music, religion, the arts, journalism, dress and popular culture. These grants are not intended for pre-dissertation exploratory research, enrollment in classes, or participation in conferences. They may be used for dissertation research as long as funded research results in a coherent finite project. All recipients will present their research at the annual POAET Conversations and will submit an article for publication by POAET. Deadline for applications: March 28, 2008. Submit to Professor Eileen Julien, Ballantine Hall 903, IUB. Announcement of awards will be made in mid-April 2008. African Dance in Senegal – Summer 2008 UCLA Department of World Cultures – Travel Study Program Participants in the African Dance program will begin their studies in Dakar, where they will be introduced to Senegalese languages, culture, and art history. After one week of orientation, they will move south to l’Ecole des Sables, in Toubab Dialaw, where they will receive dance instruction from world-renowned artist Germaine Acogny and enjoy cultural exchange with students from all over West Africa. The program returns to Dakar for its final week where students will work on research projects. The program is open to anyone who is at least 18 years of age. For information on costs and online registration, visit the UCLA Travel Study Website: www.summer.ucla.edu/Travel Or phone: 310-825-2460. Registration is first-come, first served. Financial aid is available only to UC students. Visiting students should contact their home institution about financial aid.
4. Conferences
Global Studies Conference – CALL FOR PAPERS The Global Studies Conference and Global Studies Journal work toward mapping and interpreting new trends and patterns in globalization. This journal and the conference attempt to do this from many points of view, from many locations in the world, and in a wide-angle kaleidoscopic fashion. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication in the fully refereed Global Studies Journal. Virtual registrations are available for those who cannot attend in person, to allow submission of a paper for refereeing and possible publication, as well as access to the electronic version of the conference proceedings. The deadline for papers (title and abstract) is February 14, 2008. Proposals are reviewed within four weeks of submission. For details on the conference, online proposal submission form, etc. are on the website (see above). International Conference on the Arts in Society – CALL FOR PAPERS The conference will feature arts educators, artists, practitioners, researchers and theorists in all forms of disciplinary practice through paper presentations, workshops and colloquia. Submissions are invited for papers, workshops and alternative presentation formats for consideration in the Conference program. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication in the fully refereed International Journal of the Arts in Society. If you are unable to attend the conference in person, virtual registration is available which allow submission of a paper for refereeing and possible publication in the journal, as well as access to the electronic version of the journal. Submission in all areas of the arts will be considered, but especially welcome are presentations in keeping with the conference theme: “Art and Communication”. Details of the conference, including online proposal submission forms are on the conference website: http://www.Arts-Conference.com
AFRICAN STUDIES NOONTALKS
SPRING 2008 noontalks will be announced within the month.
“FIELDNOTES IN AFRICAN RESEARCH”
African Studies Wednesday Seminar Wednesdays 5:30-7:30, WH 218 Speakers: February 27--Peter M. Chilson, English and Creative Writing, Washington State University March 19--Kate Schroeder, History/Library, and Austin Okigbo, Folklore and Ethnomusicology March 26--Daniel Reed, Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University April 2--David Henige, Library, African Studies, and Anthropology, University of Wisconsin April 9--Anaba Anankyela Alemna, Library and Library Science, University of Ghana, Ghana April 23--Selwa El-Shawan Castello Branco, Ethnomusicology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
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