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9:00-9:10 Opening Remarks:
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Dr.
Sandra Barnes (Director, African
Studies Center, Professor of Anthropology)
Ngugi Reading: Ngugi
wa Thiong'o and Kabuiya Kimani |
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9:10-10:40 1st Round Table:
"History, Performance and
African Literature"
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Chair:
Dr. Dan Ben-Amos (Professor,
Folklore and Folklife) |
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Presenters:
- Solimar Otero (Folklore and
Folklife)
"Telling and Writing Our
Stories: The Textualization of
Performance in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's
Fiction"
- Kristina Wirtz (Anthropology)
"Narratives of Outside
and Inside"
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10:40-10:45 Break
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10:45-12:15 2nd Round Table:
"Language and Power"
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Chair:
Dr. Alwiya Omar (African Studies
Center Language Coordinator) |
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Presenters:
- Richard Haavisto (Anthropology)
"The Power of Language/The
Language of Power"
- Dr. Alwiya Omar: "Negotiating
Language in Tanzania"
- David Samper (Folklore and Folklife)
- Tonya Taylor (Anthropology,
Folklore and Folklife)
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12:15-1:50 Lunch
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1:35-1:45 Ngugi Reading:
Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Kabuiya
Kimani |
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1:45-3:15 3rd Round Table: "Prison
Literature Worldwide"
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Chair:
Dr. Rita Barnard (Associate Professor,
English) |
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Presenters:
- Dr. Rita Barnard (Associate Professor,
English)
- Dr. Mary Jane Androne (Professor
of English, Albright College)
- Dr. Rosemary George (Assistant
Professor, English, University of
California, San Diego)
- Jeanine De Lombard (English)
- Anjali Arondekar (English)
- Erika Wiliams (Comparative Literature)
- Adam Hotek (English)
- Mark Sanders (English, Columbia
University) |
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3:15-3:20 Break
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3:20-4:50 4th Round Table: "The
Stuggle for Culture: Postcoloniality
vis-à-vis the West"
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Chairs:
Dr. Lee Cassanelli (Professor, History) |
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Presenters:
Rudolph T. Ware (History)
Niklas Hultin (Anthropology)
Paulina Alberto (History)
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4:50-5:00 Ngugi Reading:
Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Kabuiya
Kimani
Closing Remarks:
Dr. Sandra Barnes (Director,
African Studies Center) |
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6:00-7:30 Reception and Book
Signing: House of Our Own Books,
3920 Spruce Street, (215)222-1576
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