PROGRAM OF AFRICAN STUDIES WINTER QUARTER EVENTS

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'Has God Forsaken Africa?' film screening
co-sponsored with the African Student's Association
Jan 13th, 12pm
PAS Conference Room

The Evangelical Politics of Jacob Zuma
lecture by Doug Foster (Medill)
Jan 25th, 4pm
PAS Conference Room

The Elemental Power of Chiefs, Archaic and Modern
lecture by Georgi Deluguian (Sociology)
Jan 27th, 12pm
PAS Conference Room

Africans or Creoles? Uses of the Portuguese Language in Brazilian Slavery
Buffett Center Presents: Ivana Stolze Lima (Visiting Scholar)
Jan 29th, 12pm
Buffett Center Conference Room, 1902 Sheridan Road

Performance of award winning novel Nervous Conditions
By Tsisti Dangarembga, as adapted by Lisa Biggs & Lori Baptista (NU, Performance Studies)
Jan 29th and 30th, 2pm and 8pm
Annie May Swift Studio
2PM PERFORMANCE CANCELED

The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa
Buffett Center Presents: Deborah Bräutigam (American University)
Feb 3rd, 7pm
Hardin Hall, Rebecca Crown Center, 633 Clark St.

Mètissage and Pentecostalism: The View from Urban Madagascar
lecture by Jennifer Cole (Comparative Human Development, U of Chicago)
Feb 8th, 4pm
PAS Conference Room

'Throw Down Your Heart' film screening
Feb 10th, 12pm
Video Theater, Multimedia Center, University Library

Ladysmith Black Mambazo (co-sponsored with Old Town School of Folk Music)
Feb 13th, 8pm
4544 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago

Africa, their descendants and languages in nineteenth century Rio de Janeiro
lecture by Ivana Stolze Lima (PAS Visiting Scholar)
Co-Sponsored with the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies
Feb 17th, 12pm
PAS Conference Room
event postponed until Spring Quarter 2010

The Power of Half: One Family's Decision to Stop Taking and Start Giving Back (co-sponsored with the Medill School of Journalism & Global Engagement Summer Institute)
Feb 17th, 12pm
Fisk Hall, Room 111, 1845 Sheridan Road

Bela Fleck's Africa Project (co-sponsored with Old Town School of Folk Music)
Feb 21st, 5pm & 8pm
4544 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago

Between Mosque and Palace: Defining Identity Through Ritual Movement in Ngaoundéré, Cameroon
lecture by Mark DeLancey (PAS Visiting Scholar, Professor of History of Art&Architecture, DePaul)
Feb 24th, 12pm
PAS Conference Room

Tinariwen (co-sponsored with Old Town School of Folk Music)
Feb 27th, 7pm & 10pm
4554 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago

Rebel Rulers: Insurgent Governance and Civilian Life During War
lecture by Zachariah Mamphilly (Political Science, Vassar)
March 1st, 4pm
PAS Conference Room

Re-examining the Senegalese 'Social Contract:' Making Room for the Muridiyya in Colonial and Post-colonial Senegal
lecture by Cheikh Babou (History, U of Pennsylvania)
March 3rd, 12pm
PAS Conference Room

Bourgeois Ethics? The State, Islam, and the Arts in Contemporary Egypt
Buffett Center Presents: Jessica Winegar (Anthropology, Northwestern)
March 5th, 12pm
Buffett Center Conference Room, 1902 Sheridan Road

In the Face of Mass Murder and Atrocities: What Should America Do?
Buffett Center Presents: Ambassador Richard S. Williamson (Buffett Visiting Professor)
March 9th, 4pm
Guild Lounge, Scott Hall, 601 University Place

Muslim Youth and the History of Religious Dissent in Tanzania
Felicitas Becker, Assistant Professor of African History, Simon Fraser University
March 10th, 12pm
PAS Conference Room
EVENT CANCELED

Our events are designed to further the knowledge and experience of African scholarly work in the greater community.

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