African Studies Center

University of Pennsylvania

Additional Event Listings:

Current Events for Fall 2007

 
September
 
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
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
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
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