PROGRAM OF AFRICAN STUDIES UPCOMING NOVEMBER EVENTS

NOVEMBER 3rd 6:00PM
The Cancer Ward: The History of Medicine and Embodiment in Botswana
Red Lion Lecture presented by Julie Livingston (Rutgers University) cosponsored with the African Studies Workshop at U Chicago
Lion Head Pub, 2251 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago


NOVEMBER 5th Reception 6-7pm, Panel 7-8:30pm
The Global Crisis of Childhood Malnutrition: A Not-so Natural Disaster
Co-sponsored with Doctors Without Borders
Panel discussion with Will Reno, Dr. Marc Levin, Johanne Sekkenes
Northwestern University Law School
Levy Mayer Hall - Lincoln Hall Room (357 E. Chicago Ave)


NOVEMBER 9th 12:00PM
Inside Insurgency: Violence, Civilians, and Revolutionary Group Behavior
Lecture by Claire Metelits (Washington State U)
PAS Conference Room, 620 Library Place


NOVEMBER 17th 7:00PM
Film showing "Pray the Devil Back to Hell" cosponsored with the African Students Association
Followed by discussion with D. Soyini Madison
Forum Room, Evanston Campus Library

View the Conference Report from the
Dress, Popular Culture, and Social Action Conference
March 13-14, 2009, at Northwestern University
How does dress in particular and popular culture in general constitute and inspire social action? The dressed body readily becomes a flash point of conflicting values, fueling contests in historical encounters, in interactions across class, between genders and generations, and in recent global cultural, and economic exchanges. Popular culture as mass circulations of expressive forms rising from day-to-day discourse and action becomes the real and imagined reflections of the complicity and contestation, the desire and discontent, of power and it machinations. This interdisciplinary conference focuses on the dynamic range of micro and macro social action and how it is generated, sustained, and may culminate into transnational social movements that are enlivened by dress and popular culture.

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

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