African Studies Center

University of Pennsylvania

Additional Event Listings:

Current Events for Fall 2002

 
September Events
 
Serigne-Mogueye Gueye
(Professor of Urology, University Cheikh Anta Diop
Visiting Fulbright Fellow, CCEB, School of Medicine
)
"Cancer and Ethnicity: Genetic and Environmental Causes of Disease Differences in West Africa and North America"
U Museum,
Room 345
4:30-6:00PM
 
October Events
 
4
Serigne-Mogueye Gueye
( Fall Lecture Series)
(Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Penn Medical School)

"Medical Challenges During the Rwandan Genocide"
Ben Franklin Room
Houston Hall,
(2:00 - 3:30 PM)
4
(Outreach Event)
Conference:
"Business Linkages between African and the US"
Ben Franklin Room
Houston Hall,
(9:00 - 12:00 Noon)
Carolyn Nordstrom
(
University of Nortre Dame)
"War, Smuggling, and Illegal Pharmaceutical Empires"
TBA
4:30-6:00PM
11
(Outreach Event)
Workshop:
"Writing Successful Grants Applications for Community Colleges"
Griski Room
Houston Hall,
(9:00AM - 5:00PM)
17
( Fall Lecture Series)
John F. Walker
(Journalist)
"Our Man in Angola: Jonas Savimbi"
Class of '47
314 Houston Hall,
(2:00 - 3:30 PM)
Annenberg Center
(7:30PM)
25
(Fall Lecture Series)
Heather Sharkey
(U of Pennsylvania)
"Cultural Service or Self-serving Culture? The Christian Missionary Enterprise in Colonial Africa"
Irvine, G17
(2:00 - 3:30 PM)
Susan Watkins
(U of Pennsylvania)
"Local Strategies for AIDS Prevention in Rural Malawi"
TBA
(4:30-6:00PM)
 
November Events
 
1
(Fall Lecture Series)
Jeremy Rich
(Cabrini College)
"The Perils of `Civilization'? Food, Tastes, and Social History in Colonial Libreville"
Griski Room
Houston Hall,
(2:00 - 3:30 PM)
8
( Fall Lecture Series)
Rachel R. Reynolds
(Drexel University)
"Immigration and the Benefits of Women's Labor: The Effects of the Professional Brain Drain on Women in Nigeria and Abroad"
Griski Room
Houston Hall,
(2:00 - 3:30 PM)
15
( Fall Lecture Series)
Cati Coe
(Rutgers University-Camden)
"Development Morality Plays: Orchestrating Self and Evaluating Tradition in Ghana"
Griski Room
Houston Hall,
(2:00 - 3:30 PM)
Annenberg Center
(7:30PM)
22
( Fall Lecture Series)
Cheikh Ante Babou
(U of Pennsylvania)
"Modernization of Islam or Islamization of Modernity? Some Consequences of Globalization in Islamic Africa" (POSTPONED)
Griski Room
Houston Hall,
(2:00 - 3:30 PM)
 
December Events
 
Susan Gennaro, DSN
(U of Pennsylvania)
"Women Helping Women Research in Malawi, Africa"
Room 253
Biomedical
Building II/II
(4:30-6:00PM)
13
(Outreach Event)
Griski Room
Houston Hall,
(9:00AM -1:00PM))
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