African Studies Center

University of Pennsylvania

Additional Event Listings:

Current Events for Spring 2004

 
February
 
05
(Annenberg Distinguished Speaker Series)
Lamin Sanneh
(Yale University)
""Sacred Truth and Secular Agency: Separate Immunity or Double Jeopardy? An Intellectual Inquiry into the Shari'ah Debate in Nigeria"

209 College Hall
4:30 - 6:00 PM
12
(ASC Outreach)
"African Empires"
Central High School
2:00 PM
17
Annenberg African Culture Series
Music Performance:
"Habib Koité & Bamada"
Zellerbach Theatre
7:30 PM
19
(Penn Center for AIDS Research)
Richard Marlink, M.D.
(Executive Director, Harvard AIDS Institute)
"Access to HIV Care and Treatment in Africa: How do we help as
researchers and clinicians?"
Reuinion Auditorium,
3620 Hamilton Walk
1:00-2:00 PM
26
(Annenberg Distinguished Speaker Series)
Sara Berry
(Johns Hopkins University)
"The Value of History? Transacting the Past in Africa Today"
"
209 College Hall
4:30 - 6:00 PM
26
(ASC Outreach)
K-12 Workshop
"Teaching About Africa"
3624 Market, ISD
3:00-500 PM
March
01
(Co-Sponsored by Drexel University)

Scott M. Youngstead
(UVA)
""Debating Modernity and Building Civil Society: Streetcorner Conversation Groups Among Hausa Migrants in Niamey, Niger"
Houston Hall, Golkin Room
3:30-5:00 PM
19
(Organized by the African, East Asian, South Asian, and Middle East Centers)

"Undergraduate Research Conference: Contemporary Issues in Africa, Asia and the Middle East"
TBA
8:30 AM- 5:00 PM
23
Annenberg African Culture Series
Music Performance:
Baaba Maal
Zellerbach Theatre
7:30 PM
24
(Outreach Program)

K-12 Workshop
"From Africa to America: Swahili Language & Culture"
3624 Market, ISD
3:00-500 PM
25
(Annenberg Distinguished Speaker Series)
Tabitha Kanogo
(U of California-Berkeley)
"
African Womanhood in
Colonial Kenya: Dancing on a Grave and Crossing Boundaries"
209 College Hall
4:30 - 6:00 PM
26 (postponed)
(ASC: Outreach Program)
Workshop:
"Africa in the US Media"
Postponed
8:30 AM- 1:00 PM
29
(ASC Sponsored)
Peter Geshiere
"Scholar for a Day Program"
TBA
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
April
1-2
(Haverford-Bryn Mawr Africana Studies Program)
Conference:
"Conflict and Peacemaking in Africa"
TBA
16
(Organized by the Africa, East Asian, South Asian and Middle East Centers)
"Exploring International Career Opportunities: Africa, Asia and the Middle East "
Houston Hall, Griski Room
9:30 AM - 1:00 PM
22
(Annenberg Distinguished Speaker Series)
Richard Roberts
(Stanford University)
"Women Seeking Divorce; Men Seeking Control: Litigant Strategy, Institutional Change, and Social History in the Native Courts of the French Soudan"
209 College Hall
4:30 - 6:00 PM
14
(ASC: Outreach Program)

K-12 Teachers Workshop
"Kingdoms of West Africa"
3624 Market, ISD
3:00-500 PM
 
May
6
(Outreach Program)
K-12 Workshop
"African Immigrants in Philadelphia"
3624 Market, ISD
3:00-500 PM

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