Current Events for Fall 2003

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September
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18
Stephen N. Ndegwa
(College of William & Mary)
"Constitutionalism in Africa's Democratic Transition"
Houston Hall,
Griski Room
3:00-4:30 PM
(ASC: Democracy in Africa)
23
Ronald Collman, MD
Epidemiology, Pathogenesis & Virology
&
Susan Watkins, Ph.D.
Demography & Sociology
"AIDS in Africa: An Overview"
3rd Floor,
Graduate Student Center
(3615 Locust Walk)
5:30 - 7:00 PM
(Penn Interdisciplinary Dialogues On AIDS)
23
Alex Boraine
(South Africa Truth and
Reconciliation Commission)
"Belief in Democracy"
Room 200, College Hall
5:00-6:30 PM
(Penn Humanities Forum)
25
Ali Ahmida
(Univesity of New England)
"Beyond Colonial and Nationalist
Categories: A History of the Name Maghrib/North Africa"
TBA
4:30-6:00 PM
(MEC Event, ASC Sponsored)
30
Donald Rothchild
(U of California - Davis)
"Choices on State-Building after Africa's Civil Wars"
Houston Hall,
Griski Room
3:00-4:30 PM
(ASC: Democracy in Africa)
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October
.
02


Joseph Miller
(UVA)
"African Dimensions of the Atlantic Slave Trade"

209 College Hall
4:30 - 6:00 PM

(Annenberg Distinguished Speaker Series)
03
(ASC: Annual Workshop)
17


"K-12 Workshop"

TBA
3:00 - 5:00 PM

(ASC: Outreach Program)
POSTPONED

C.R.D. Halisi
(California State University - Los Angles)
"Racial & Nonracial Republics: Comparisons of Race & Reconciliation in South Africa and the USA"

Houston Hall,
Griski Room
3:00-4:30 PM

POSTPONED


(ASC: Democracy in Africa)
23
Paul Silverstein
(Reed College)
"The New Barbarians: Piracy and Terrorism on the North African Frontier"
TBA
4:30-6:00 PM
(MEC Event, ASC Sponsored)
24
"Doing Business in Africa"
Houston Hall,
Griski Room
8:30AM-1:30 PM
(ASC: Outreach Program)
24
"African Cultural Festival"
TBA
5:30AM-8:00 PM
(ASC: Language Program)
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November
.
6
Ahmed I. Samatar
(Maclester College)
"The State and Leadership in Africa"
Houston Hall,
Griski Room
3:00-4:30 PM
(ASC: Democracy in Africa)
6


Jean Allman
(UIUC)
"Fashioning Nation: Gender, Power and the Politics of Dress in Nkrumah's Ghana"

209 College Hall
4:30 - 6:00 PM

(Annenberg Distinguished Speaker Series)
13
Eve Troutt Powell
(University of Georgia"
"The Map the Slave Made:
Saint Bakhita's Footsteps in the Nile Valley"
TBA
4:30-6:00 PM
(MEC Event, ASC Sponsored)
14

"K-12 Teachers Workshop"
TBA
3:00-5:00 PM
(ASC: Outreach Program)
14-15
PA Convention Center
3:00-5:00 PM
(Wharton Africa Business Forum)
21
"Exploring Media Accounts of HIV/AIDS in Africa "
Houston Hall,
Ben Franklin Room
1:00 - 4:30 PM
(ASC: Outreach Program)
 
December
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4
Eric Sellin
(Tulane University)
"The Maghrib: Linguistic, Literary,
and Cultural Crossroads"
TBA
4:30-6:00 PM
(MEC Event, ASC Sponsored)
5
"K-12 Teachers Workshop"
TBA
3:00 - 5:00 PM#EC9148
(ASC: Outreach Program
     
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