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Our events are designed to further the knowledge and experience
of African scholarly work in the greater community. Unless otherwise
noted, all events take place at the Program of African Studies,
Northwestern University, 620 Library Place, Evanston Campus.
If you would like to receive regular updates about PAS events
via
email, please contact: african-studies@northwestern.edu.
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September
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September 28
Program of African Studies Open House
4:00-5:30 pm
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October
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October 4
12:00 -1:30 pm
Title: "The Price of Adaptation: Hybridization of African Music and Dance from Village to International Stage."
Habib Iddrisu, Performance Studies |
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October 5
Chicago Area Islam and Africa Seminar
3:00-5:00 pm
Title: "Ritual, Ceremony, and the Articulation of Power During the Sudanese Mahdiyya."
Kim Searcy, Department of History, Loyola University.
Butch Ware, Department of History, Northwestern University, will be the discussant.
Paper to be read in advance. To obtain a copy of the paper or to be placed on the mailing list for this seminar, contact Rebecca Shereikis.
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October 9
4:00-5:30 pm
Title: "Dimensions of Spiritual Insecurity in an era of AIDS: Some Considerations from the South of Africa."
Adam Ashforth, Associate Director, Program of African Studies
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October 12
4:00-5:30 pm
Title:"Love, Marriage and HIV in Nigeria."
Dan Smith, Anthropology and Population Studies, Brown University
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October 13
1:00-2:30 pm
Title:“Understanding the Crisis in Darfur: Structured Politics or Post-Modern Chaos ? ” Leif Manger, Red Sea Area Studies Program, Bergen University |
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October 16
4:00-5:30 pm
Title: "Management of a Resource-Dependent Economy and Political Change: Shifting Sands in Botswana."
Amy Poteete, Assistant Professor, Concordia University, Montreal |
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October 17
4:00 pm
Title: "Misgovernance and the African Predicament: Can the Code Be Broken?"
Inaugural lecture by John Evans Professor of Political Science Richard Joseph, Director of the Program of African Studies.
Location: McCormick Tribune Center Forum, 1870 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus. Reception to follow. Sponored by the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Political Science Department
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October 24
5:00-6:30 pm
Title: “Imperial Blues: Wars in the Midle East/Axis of Hope in South America,” Tariq Ali, editor, The New Left Review.
Location:
The McCormick Tribune Center 1870 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus |
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October 25
Documentary Screening
7:00-9:00 pm
Title: "American Masters/Paul Robeson: Here I Stand," a documentary on Paul Robeson.
Location:
The Forum Room, University Library, Evanston Campus.
This event is cosponsored in association with the Othello Project of the English Department.
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October 31
Brown Bag Lunch Program
12:15-1:00 pm
Title: "An Informal Conversation with Busi Khangala"
Busi Khangala , the African Studies Centre Library, University of Cape Town (UCT), will give a brief presentation about the UCT Library and then respond to questions.
Location: Ver Steeg Faculty Lounge, Northwestern University Library
Co-sponsored with Northwestern University Library and The Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies
Red Lion Seminar
5:00 pm
Title: "Imagined Geographies of Atlantic Africa " by
Bayo Holsey (African and African American Studies, Duke University)
Discussant: Ralph Austen (History, University of Chicago)
Location: Mercury Cafe, 1505 W. Chicago Avenue
Cosponsored with The University of Chicago African Studies Workshop
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November |
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November 1
A Featured Lecture of the Othello Project
5:00 pm
Title: "Othello's Dominion, Immigrant Domain."
Wole Soyinka, Nigerian writer, political activist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986.
Location: Harris Hall, Room 107, 1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston Campus. Reception to follow.
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November 2-4, 2006
An international conference on Nigeria
Nigeria 2007: Political, Social and Economic Transitions
Program of African Studies, Northwestern University
Evanston Campus
On November 2-4, 2006, Northwestern’s Program of African Studies will convene an international conference on "Nigeria 2007: Political, Social, and Economic Transitions”. Elections will be held in Nigeria in April 2007 when President Obasanjo completes his second and final term of office. In view of the political vicissitudes of Nigeria throughout its post-colonial history, this is an important moment to reflect collectively on the major challenges and prospects. Nigerian Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka will deliver a public lecture – “Othello’s Dominion, Immigrant’s Domain” - at 5 pm on November 1 as part of the Northwestern’s campus-wide Othello Project.
The conference will draw on a wide range of perspectives through the participation of scholars, activists and policymakers from Nigerian, European and North American institutions. Panel topics include politics and literature, HIV/AIDS, Islam and the public sphere, the Niger Delta, poverty reduction, democratic institution building and electoral politics (click to view the provisional conference program).
The Program of African Studies currently collaborates with Nigerian universities and research centers on several research projects: the Research Alliance to Combat HIV/AIDS (REACH); the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA); and the Consortium for Development Partnerships (CDP). We are also exploring a campus-wide project to assist higher education Africa. Some of the panels will therefore review and discuss specific challenges and opportunities identified in these projects.
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