Current Events for Spring 2008

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January
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12

One Book, One Philadelphia

List of All Events

10:00AM –3:00PM,
Houston Hall, Hall of Flags

15

Building Background Knowledge: The Current Conflict in Congo

5:00-7:00PM,
255 S. 36th St.,
Williams Hall, Rm 639

29

Jeremy Glick
(Rutgers University)
Backpedaling into Mayflower Time: Malcolm X, C.L.R. James and the Black Radical Tragic

4:30-PM,
FBH 401

Sponsor: English Department
31

Martin C. Njoroge
Kenyatta University
Promoting Literacy among Kenya's Street Children: A Proposal for a Language for Life Center

5:00-7:00PM,
255 S. 36th St.,
Williams Hall, Rm 639

Co-Sponsor: GSE Educational Linguistics Forum
31 - Feb 1st

7:30 AM - 9:30PM,
Wyndham
Dorothy Vernon Room

Sponsor: Bryn Mawr College
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February
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7

"Black History Month: Teaching Begin with Africa"

5:00-7:00PM,
255 S. 36th St.,
Williams Hall, Rm 639

14

""Elections and Violence: Lessons from Kenya""

Noon - 2:00 PM
Houston Hall, Griski Room

Media Outreach
Co-Sponsors: International Relations, Annenberg CGCS
15-16

"Contested Black Identities in America"

5:00-7:00PM,
Gateway Conf. Room
Thomas Hall, Room 110

Sponsor: African Studies, Bryn Mawr College
16

"World Culture Family Day : Celebration of African Cultures"

11:00 am to 4:00 pm
3260 South Street

Penn Museum of Archeology and Anthropology
18


"Telecom Egypt"

5:00 PM
The Pyramid Club, 1735 Market Street, 52nd

Business Outreach
Co-Sponsor: Global Interdependence Center
18

Catherine Husa, M.D
"Maternal Child Health and Fistula"

12:30-2:00
Fagin Hall

Spring Lecture Series
African Studies Center
19

Marjorie Nguangje
(Former Health Minister of Malawi)
"Healthcare Challenges in Malawi and Sub-Saharan Africa"

8:15am-10:15am
The Pyramid Club, 1735 Market Street, 52nd

28

"Ethiopia and Eritrea"

5:00-7:00PM,
255 S. 36th St.,
Williams Hall, Rm 639

29

"Africa Open for Business"

5:00 PM,
Huntsman Hall G 06

ASC Outreach Workshop
Co-Sponsors: Africaribe, Wharton African Students Association
March
26

Music from South Africa to Philadelphia

5:00-7:00PM,
255 S. 36th St.,
Williams Hall, Rm 639

28

Prof. David Coplan
"Scholar for a Day"


9:30 AM- 8:00 PM
Arch Crest Room


African Studies Center
28

"African Cultural Day"

Du Bois College House,
3900 Walnut Street
5:30 - 8:00 PM


African Studies Center
 
April
3

Spirit of Uganda

7:30 PM,
3680 Walnut Street

3

Ahmad Sikainga
(Ohio State University)
"Slavery and Social Life in 19th Century Turco-Egyptian Khartoum"

12:00 Noon
History Lounge,
College Hall 209

4

Ricardo M. S. de Oliveira
will discuss his new book:
"Oil and Politics in the Gulf of Guinea"

12:30 - 2:00 PM
Williams Hall, Rm 639

Spring Lecture Series
African Studies Center
6

Angélique Kidjo

7:00 PM,
3680 Walnut Street

7

Clare Ignatowski
(USAID)
Framing Youth Within the Politics of Foreign Assistance

2:00 PM,
Chemistry Building, B13

Spring Lecture Series
African Studies Center
10-11

9:00 AM
207 College Hall

Co-sponsored by Penn NRCs
11

Eve M. Troutt Powell
(U of Pennsylvania)
"Translating Slavery:
Memories of Forced Labor in the Nile Valley
"

12:00 PM
Logan 436

A Women’s Studies Program Works-in-Progress Faculty Seminar
14

David Shinn
(George Washington University)
China's Growing Presence
in Africa

2:00 PM,
Chemistry Building, B13

Spring Lecture Series
African Studies Center
18

Africa Orientation
for students and reaserhers

1:00 - 5:00 PM
Van Pelt Library,
1955 Room

ASC, Penn Abroad
18-19

7:00 PM (18th)
9:00 AM(19th)
Thomas 110

Bryn Mawr College’s Africana Studies Program
23

Edna Adan Ismail
(Former Minister of Health, Somaliland)
"Challenges of Maternal and Child Health in Somaliland"

4:00 PM
Fagin Hall,
Room 110

Spring Lecture Series
African Studies Center
23

Discussion:
"Philanthropy in Africa"

6:00-7:30 PM
Rodin Underground

Penn African Students Association
23

3:00-4:30 PM
Silverman,245A

Penn Law School
ASC-Co-sponosred
25

Molora

8:00 PM,
3680 Walnut Street

May
02

Andy Palacio and the Garifuna Collective

8:00 PM,
3680 Walnut Street

 

 

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