UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER
MSU Tuesday Bulletin (10), 03/19/'96

MSU Tuesday Bulletin (10), 03/19/'96

AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER, MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY 100 INTERNATIONAL CENTER, EAST LANSING, MI 48824-1035

Major subheadings: events, MSU announcements, other announcements, Africa-related courses at MSU, conferences, grants, fellowships, scholarships, jobs

EVENTS

March 19, Tuesday, "A Survey of the Historiography of Senegambia: the Slave Trade, Ecology, Regional Integration, the Desert Frontier, and Islam." African Studies Center Special Guest Seminar with Barry Boubacar (Professor of History, University Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal, and Visiting Professor, University of Michigan). 12:00 noon, Spartan Room B, Crossroads Food Court, International Center.

March 19, Tuesday, at the University of Michigan: "Pathways to Food Production in North and East Africa" The University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology lecture series on African Archaeology, with Fiona Marshall (Dept. of Anthropology, Washington University) 4:00 p.m., Lecture Room 1, Modern Languages Building. (See article in "Other Announcements" section.)

March 20, Wednesday, at the University of Michigan: "Environmental Health: "Childhood Lead Poisoning in Natal" The University of Michigan Center for Afroamerican and African Studies Winter 1996 Dialogue Series on South Africa, with Jerome Nriagu (Associate Professor, School of Public Health), 12:10 to 1:00 p.m. in the CAAS Library Conference Room, 214 West Engineering Building. (See article in "Other Announcements" section.)

March 21, Thursday, "H. F. Verwoerd as an Academic" African Studies Center Brown Bag with Roberta Miller (Director, CIESIN, Saginaw, Michigan), 12:00 noon, Spartan Room C, Crossroads Food Court, International Center.

March 22, Friday, "Finzan," film produced and directed by Cheick

Oumar Sissoko. African Film Festival: Africa's Africa: Films by and about Africans, 7:00 p.m.in 128 Natural Science Building. Free and the public is invited. Discussion following the film.

March 28, Thursday, "Botswana and Its New Financial Policy" African Studies Center Brown Bag with Leapetswe Malete (Graduate Student, Physical Education, MSU) and Scholar Puso (Graduate Student, Business Administration, MSU), 12:00 noon, Spartan Room C, Crossroads Food Court, International Center.

April 2, Tuesday, "The Democratic Transition in Africa: Nine Case Studies" Faculty Research Seminar series sponsored by the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, with Boubacar Barry (Visiting Professor in CAAS, History, and the International Institute, University of Michigan). 3:30 - 5:00 p.m., 214 West Engineering Building, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. For more information, call (313) 764-5513.

April 4, Thursday, "Repatriation of Eritrean Refugees from the Sudan" African Studies Center Brown Bag with Hagos Kafil (Business Consultant, Kalamazoo, Michigan), 12:00 noon, Spartan Room C,

Crossroads Food Court, International Center.

April 5, Friday, "Hyena,s," film produced and directed by Djibril Diop Mambety. African Film Festival: Africa's Africa: Films by and about Africans, 7:00 p.m.in 128 Natural Science Building. Free and the public is invited. Discussion following the film.

Apr. 8-12, Monday - Friday, "Religion in America" seminar sponsored by the Department of History and the African Studies Center, with twelve African scholars. (See related article in MSU Announcements.)

April 11, Thursday, African Studies Center Brown Bag with Suad Sulaiman (Secretary, Sudanese Tropical Medicine Society). Topic is pending, but will probably be on women's health issues. 12:00 noon, Spartan Room C, Crossroads Food Court, International Center.

April 10, Wednesday, "Insights into the Tijaniyya Order in the 19th and 20th Centuries," 3:00 - 5:00 p.m., Spartan Room C, Crossroads Food Court, International Center. Visiting African scholars on the panel include: Fatima Harrak, Assimi Kouanda, and Mai Korema Zakari, with Ousmane Kane presiding. (See related article in MSU

Announcements.)

April 11, Thursday, "Mauritania and Senegal: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives," will be held 3:00 - 5:00 p.m, in Spartan Room C, International Center. Visiting African Scholars on the panel include Ibrahima Sall, Abdel Wedoud Ould Cheikh, and Penda Mbow, with MSU Professor David Robinson, presiding. (See related article in MSU Announcements).

April 12, Friday, "Moroccan Women Through Ben Jalloun,s Fiction" SID Luncheon seminar with Majat Sebti (Professor of English, University Muhammad V, Rabat, and Visiting Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), 12:00 noon, Spartan Rooms, Crossroads Food Court, International Center.

April 12, Friday, Reception honoring the African Scholars visiting MSU for the Religion in America seminar. 3:00 p.m. in Spartan Room B, Crossroads Food Court, International Center.

April 19, Friday, "Allah Tantou" ("God's Will"), film produced and directed by David Achkar. African Film Festival: Africa's Africa: Films by and about Africans, 7:00 p.m. in 128 Natural Science

Building. Free and the public is invited. Discussion following the film.

MSU ANNOUNCEMENTS

"Religion in America" seminar will be held at Michigan State University April 8 - 12, 1996. In attendance will be 12 African scholars (see "Tuesday Bulletin #9," March 12, 1996) who will be in the United States for two weeks due to grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and USIA. The first week they will be attending a conference at the University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana) on the subject, "Tijaniyya Traditions and Societies in West Africa in the 19th and 20th Centuries."

The second week the scholars will be at Michigan State University where they will be attending a seminar, "Religion in America," which will be run by American Studies faculty from Arts and Letters.

Other events scheduled include a panel, "Insights into the Tijaniyya Order in the 19th and 20th Centuries," on Wednesday, April 10, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m., Spartan Room C, International Center.

Visiting African scholars on the panel include: Fatima Harrak, Assimi Kouanda, and Mai Korema Zakari, with Ousmane Kane presiding.

A second panel, "Mauritania and Senegal: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives," will be held on Thursday, April 11, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m, in Spartan Room C, International Center. African Scholars on the panel include Ibrahima Sall, Abdel Wedoud Ould Cheikh, and Penda Mbow, with MSU Professor David Robinson, presiding.

A reception in honor of the visiting African scholars will be held Friday, April 12, at 3:00 p.m. in Spartan Room B, International Center.

Forthcoming "Tuesday Bulletins" will list any additional activities as they are scheduled. The visiting African scholars will be at Michigan State University from April 6 - 13 and will have some free time. Anyone wishing to contact them, can contact Cheikh Babou at (517) 353-7904 to make arrangements, or call the African Studies Center at (517) 353-1700.

Also visiting MSU from April 11 - 13, 1996 is Najat Sebti

(Professor of English at the University Muhammad V in Rabat, and visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee). She will be giving the SID luncheon April 12, "Moroccan Women through Ben Jalloun's Fiction."

OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS

A Winter 1996 Dialogue Series on South Africa will be hosted by the University of Michigan Center for Afroamerican and African Studies in March and April. This series of informal talks on contemporary South Africa will be held from 12:10 to 1:00 p.m. in the CAAS Library Conference Room, 214 West Engineering Building. The talks are free and open to the public. For more information, call (313) 764-5513. On March 20, Jerome Mriagu (Associate Professor, School of Public Health) will talk on "Environmental Health, Childhood Lead Poisoning in Natal." On March 27, Charles D. Moody (Professor of Education and Executive Director of the South Africa Initiative Office) will talk on "Education: Recent Developments in the Post-Apartheid Educational System." On April 3, Heston E. Phillips (Graduate Student, Sociology) will talk on "Maternal Health Care Use in Natal." On April 11, Elise Bryant (Lecturer at CAAS and Program Associate at the Labor Studies Center), will talk on

"Worker's Culture: Labor Movement Culture," with video footage from her recent visit to COSATU (Coalition of South African Trade Unions) in Johannesburg. On April 17, Grant Farred (Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature) will talk on "The Nation in White: Cricket in a Post-Apartheid South Africa." For more information, call (313) 764-5513.

A lecture series on African Archaeology will be held in March and April 1996 by the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology. On Tuesday, March 19, Professor Fiona Marshall (Dept of Anthropology, Washington University) will speak on "Pathways to Food Production in North and East Africa." On Friday, March 29, 1996, Professor Roderick J. McIntosh (Dept. of Anthropology, Rice University) will speak on Clustered Cities, Sacred Places, and Mooning Mothers: Expanding the Archaeology of Greater Mande (West Africa)." Both of these lectures will be held in Lecture Room 1, Modern Languages Building, at 4:00 p.m.

Dr. Augustin Holl (Departement d'Ethnologie et de Prehistoire Universite de paris X, Nanterre) will give three lectures: Thursday, April 4: "The Archaeology of the Chad Basin;" Friday, April 5: "Genesis of a Chadic Polity;" and Monday, April 8:

"Inside, Outside: Arab Settlement in the Chad Basin in Ethnoarchaeological Perspective." These talks will be given at 4:00 p.m. in the West Conference Room of the Rackham Building.

For more information, contact the Museum at (313) 764-0485.

CONFERENCES

The Association of African Studies Programs spring meeting will take place April 25 - 27. Francois Manchuelle, New York University, is the chairperson and Jack Parson, College of Charleston, is the associate chairperson. The meeting will take place in the Rome Building Reception Room, 1619 Massachusetts Ave NW. A conference schedule will be mailed to members in early April. For more information, contact: Association of African Studies Programs, Africana Studies Program, 269 Mercer Street, Suite 601, New York University, New York, NY 10003.

NRC/FLAS Technical Assistance Workshop will be held April 1 - 2 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. The meeting will be open to all who are interested in learning more about the NRC and FLAS programs. The tentative agenda includes plenary and

small-group sessions focusing on the status of Title VI funding, proposed NRC and FLAS regulatory changes, budgets, FLAS administration, FLAS and NRC reporting requirements, creative resource-sharing, evaluating academic, outreach, and language programs, and area-specific issues. Omni Shoreham Hotel phone: (202) 234-0700. Fax: (202) 265-5333. Contact Karla Ver Bryck Block, Senior Program Officer, Center for International Education, U.S. Department of Education. Phone: (202) 401-0997.

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From: Judith Lessard <21248JL@ibm.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Tuesday Bulletin Spring No. 10, March 19, 1996

Editor: Ali B. Ali-Dinar

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