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Current Events for Fall 2007
September |
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4 Africa program at National Constitution Center |
525 Arch Street, Independence Mall 6:30 PM | |
15 |
Sickle Cell Seminar |
Philadelphia International House 10:00 AM- 4:00 PM |
The Sickle Cell Association of America Philadelphia/Delaware
Valley chapter | ||
26 Co-sponsored by the Middle East Center, & the African Studies Center |
Beth Baron (CUNY) "Liberated Bodies, Saved Souls: Missionaries and Freed Slaves in Egypt" |
209 College Hall, History Lounge (3450 Woodland Walk) 12Noon |
28 |
Abdourahman Waberi (Writer in residence Wellesley College) will discuss his new book: "Aux Etats-Unis d'Afrique/In the United States of Africa" |
639 Williams Hall 12:30 - 2:00 PM |
October |
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5 | Anne
Bailey (SUNY, Binghamton) "African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: A Paradigm for African Diaspora Studies" |
History Lounge, 209 College Hall 12 Noon |
Dept. of History | ||
8 | Akosua
Adomako Ampofo (University of Ghana, Legon) "Women's Well Being and Gender Activism: Domestic Violence Bill Becoming Law in Ghana" | Carpenter
Library, Room 21 4:00pm |
Center for International Studies
at Bryn Mawr College | ||
10 | Cheikh Babou (U Penn) will discuss his new book: "Fighting the Greater Jihad Amadu Bamba and the Founding of the Muridiyya of Senegal, 1853-1913" |
639 Williams Hall 12:30 - 2:00 PM |
11 | K-12 Teacher Workshp: "African Immigrants in the U.S. and Philadelphia" | Williams Hall Room 639 5:00-7:00 |
Outreach
Workshops African Studies Center | ||
13 | Audrey Mbeje (UPenn) Workshop for Language Instructors: "Teaching and Learning Foreign Languages beyond the Basics" |
TBA 8:30 - 3:00PM |
ASC | ||
22 | Veronique Bonnet (U Paris 13) "Comment les autobiographies africaines écrivent l'histoire au tournant du siècle?" |
Seminar Room, 639 Williams Hall 12:30 - 2:00 PM |
25 - 26 |
Bodek, Houston Hall | |
Alice Paul Center & Women's
Studies ASC Co-sponsor | ||
25 | K-12 Workshop "Teaching about Africa: Poverty" |
Williams Hall Room 639 5:00-7:00 |
Outreach Workshops African Studies Center | ||
30 | Oystein Rolandsen (Institute for Peace Research, Oslo) "Divided We Live, Together We Die: Peacebuilding and Separatism in the Southern Sudan" | Irvine
Auditorium, Green Room (3401 Spruce St.) 4:00 PM |
Co-sponsors: Middle East Center, African Studies Center, and Penn Program in Ethnic Conflict | ||
31 | Jimia Boutouba (Swarthmore college) Migration within the Nation: Being French and Other |
639 Williams Hall 12:30 - 2:00 PM |
November |
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7 | K-12 Teacher Workshp: "Women in Africa" |
Williams Hall Room 639 5:00-7:00 |
Outreach Workshops African Studies Center | ||
7 ASC, Middle East Center, Ethnic Studies, International Relations |
Adam LeBor will discuss his book: "Complicity with Evil: The United Nations in the Age of Genocide" |
Irvine Audiorium, Room G7 6:00 PM |
10 |
TBA | |
14 |
Edgar Sankara (University of Delaware) African Life Narratives: Who writes them? Who reads them?" |
639 Williams Hall 12:30 - 2:00 PM |
15 |
K-12 Teacher Workshp: "Teaching about Africa: Recent conflicts 1990-2008" |
Williams Hall Room 639 5:00-7:00 |
Outreach
Workshops African Studies Center | ||
15 |
Jorn Lyseggen (Meltwater Group) "Leadership and Technology Social Enterprise: Equipping the New Generation of Enterpreneurs in Ghana" | Wu and Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall 4:30-5:30 |
Co-Sponsor
with Penn Engineering | ||
Postponed | William Burke-White (U Penn) "Peace vs. Justice in Northern Uganda" | Postponed |
29 | K-12 Teacher Workshp: "Teaching about Africa in Science" |
Williams Hall Room 639 5:00-7:00 |
Outreach
Workshops African Studies Center | ||
December | ||
Postponed | Ricardo M.S. de Oliveira will discuss his new book: "Oil and Politics in the Gulf of Guinea" |
Postponed |
6 |
K-12 Teacher Workshp: "Holidays and Celebrations in Africa" |
Williams Hall Room 639 5:00-7:00 |
7 |
Boniface Mongo-Mboussa Africulture | 639 Williams
Hall 12:30 - 2:00 PM |