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Current Events for Fall 2006
September |
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Women Studies Program & History Dept. Temple U. |
Chistelle Taraud
"Prostitution & Colonization: Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, 1830-1962" |
3:00 PM
Women's Studies Lounge (8th Fl. Anderson Hall) |
October
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Annenberg Center |
"Royal Drummers of Burundi"
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3:00 PM
Zellerbach Theatre, Annenberg Center |
5
Dept. of History |
Anne Bailey
(State University of New York, Binghamton) "African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: A Paradigm for African Diaspora Studies" |
12:00 Noon
Lecture Room, McNeil Center for Early American Studies |
6
Penn Dept. of Anthropology & Archaeology |
Donald Redford
(Pennsylvania State University) "Resistance to Persian Invasion: New Evidence from Egypt Regarding Events in the 4th Century BCE" |
6:30 PM
Penn University Museum |
11
Fall 2006 Lecture Series |
Jennifer Hasty
Research Associate (University of Pennsylvania) "Corruption in the Fast Track: Media, Courts, and Neo-liberal Desire in Ghana" |
1:00 -2:30 PM
Houston Hall 314 - Class of '47 |
16
Provost's Global Forum |
Dr. Wangari Maathai
2004 Nobel Peace Prize Winner "Growing Greener Cities Symposium" |
7:00 PM
Irvine Auditorium |
18
Fall 2006 Lecture Series |
Classara Momanyi
(Jomo Kenyatta University) "The Effects of 'Sheng' in the teaching of Kiswahili in Kenyan Educational Institutions" |
1:00-2:30 PM
Irvine G16 - Irvine Auditorium |
19
Ethnohistory Program |
Steven Feld
(University of New Mexico) "POR POR: Honk Horn Music of Ghana" |
4:30 -6:30 PM
University Museum, Anthropology Department, Room 345 |
19
Fall 2006 Outreach Series |
K-12 Teacher Workshop
"Teaching about Africa: Cultural and Natural Diversities" |
3:30 -6:30 PM
Williams Hall, Room 816 |
24
Fall 2006 Outreach Series |
K-12 Teacher Workshop
"Teaching about Africa: Cultural and Natural Diversities" |
3:30 -6:30 PM
Williams Hall, Room 816 |
30
Fall 2006 Lecture Series |
Ahmed Sikainga
(Ohio State University) "Slavery, Ethnicity, Identity, and Popular Culture in Contemporary Sudan" |
1:00 -2:30 PM
Houston Hall/Griski Room |
November
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1
Fall 2006 Lecture Series |
Aloysius Ngefac
(University of Cameroon) "The New Englishes: Issues of standardization and International Intelligibility" |
1:00 - 2:30 PM
Houston Hall 314 - Class of '47 |
3
Fall 2006 Outreach Series |
K-12 Teacher Workshop
"Islam in America: The African Connection" |
3:30 -6:30 PM
Williams Hall, Room 816 |
9
Penn Law School |
Hauwa Ibrahim
(Senior partner in the Aries Law Firm in Nigeria) "Social Justice, Human Rights, and Sharia Law" |
5:30 PM
Gittis Room 214 |
11
Wharton African Business Forum |
Wharton African Business
Forum
"Africa: Building New Partnerships, Impacting the Global Economy" |
John Huntsman Hall |
14
Fall 2006 Outreach Series |
K-12 Teacher Workshop
"Africa: Environmental Threats and Opportunities" |
3:30 -6:30 PM
Williams Hall, Room 816 |
15
Penn Law School |
Justice Richard J. Goldstone
Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa (1994-2003) "The First Decade of South Africa's Constitutional Court" |
4:30 PM
Gittis Room 214 |
21
Fall 2006 Lecture Series |
Banda Fall
(Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis) "Le Role et la Place de l'ecole dans le Dialogue Interculturel et Interreligieux" |
1:00 -2:30 PM
Houston Hall/Griski Room |
27
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts |
"Tragedy and Inspiration: Apartheid
Onstage"
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7:00 PM
Studio Theatre, Annenberg Center, 3680 Walnut Street |
29
Fall 2006 Lecture Series |
Aboubakary Diakhaby
(Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis) "Birth and development of a University in Sengal" |
1:00 -2:30 PM
Houston Hall/Griski Room |
30
Haverford College |
Douglas H. Johnson
(James Currey Press) "The Root Causes of Darfur and Sudan's Wars" |
4:30 PM
Gest Center 101 |
30 Novmber - 1 December
Graduate Student Center |
"G8's Response to Africa Conference"
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Penn Campus
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December
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7
Fall 2006 Outreach Series |
K-12 Teacher Workshop
"Using Films in Teaching about Africa" |
3:30 -6:30 PM
Williams Hall, Room 816 |
7
Penn Center for AIDS Research |
George J. Annas
(Boston University) "Rationing HIV/AIDS Treatment in Africa: Ethical and Human Rights Dimensions" |
1:00 -2:00 PM
Auditorium, Biomedical Research Building, 421 Curie Boulevard |