African Studies Center

University of Pennsylvania

Additional Event Listings:

Current Events for Spring 2005

 
January
 
9-12
Swarthmore College &
Temple University
F. Nii Yartey, Director
(Ghana Dance Ensemble)
"Dance of Our Ancestors Festival"
Dept. of Music & Dance
Schedule
29
East Africa Center
"Suppressed Voices: Sudanese Contemporary Painting"
200 College Hall, 5 PM
February
07
Population Studies Center,
ASC Co-Sponsor
Michael Burawoy,
(University of California, Berkeley)
"Public Ethnography"
Room 203
Education Bldg
Noon - 2:00PM
11
ASC
Dr. Douglas Johnson
(University of Oxford)
"Behind the Civil Wars in Darfur, and Southern Sudan"
632 Williams Hall
2:30 PM- 4:00 PM
15
Peter Sevareid
(Temple University)
"After the War: Customary Law in Liberia"
Klein Hall, Room 8B,
Temple U
Noon - 2:00PM
24-26
Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr College
9:30 AM
28
PENN S.T.A.N.D.
Anti-Slavery Group:
"Silence is Not an Option:
Genocide in Sudan – The Victims Speak"
Huntsman Hall 255
7:00 PM
March
3
Reel Voices
Film:
"Homeland"
International House
7:30 PM
12
Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia
"African Mariner Days"
11:00AM - 2:00 PM
17
ASC
K-12 Teacher Workshop:
" Teaching and Learning about Africa"
3601 Filbert Street
POSTPONED
21
ASC
Scholar for a Day with:
Francis Deng
(Johns Hopkins University and Brookings Institution)
8:30AM - 5:00 PM
21
Issues in Independent Black Cinema
Filmon Mebrahtu
(Reel Voices)
"Circle Diaries"
Terrace Room, Logan Hall
7:00 PM
24
Co-sponsored with other Areas Studies Centers
International Career Opportunities &
Undergraduate Research Forum:
"The World at Your Fingertips"
Houston Hall 218,
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
31
ASC
K-12 Teacher Workshop:
"Refugees and Civil Wars in Africa"
3601 Filbert Street
3:00PM - 5:00 PM
 
April
1
ASC
Penn African Studies Annual Consortium Workshop:
"Internal Conflicts and External Responses
in the Horn of Africa"
Penn Museum,
Class Room 2
830 PM - 5:00 PM
5
ASC
Peter Rogers
(Bates College)
"The Political Ecology of Governance Mosaics in Southern Africa"
Golkin Room,
223 Houston Hall
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
6
ASC
K-12 Teacher Workshop
"African Immigrant Experience in Philadelphia"
3601 Filbert Street
3:00PM - 5:00 PM
13-15
Bryn Mawr College &
Haverford College
Workshop:
"Medicine in Africa"
Wyndham Ely Room
14
Middle East Center, South Asia Center, Center for East Asian Studies, & ASC
Avishai Margalit,
(Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies"
Penn Humanities Forum
(3619 Locust Walk)
6:30 PM
18
ASC
Paul Mbatia
(University of Nairobi)
"Moving Beyond the 'Development Industry' in Africa: Revitalizing the Role of Local Development Actors"
Griski Room
(311 Houston Hall)
Noon - 1:30 PM
19
Asch Center
Julie Chalfin
(Asch Center Postdoctoral Fellow)
"Monitoring Psychosocial Needs in
Crisis Situations: Lessons Learned in Darfur."
Asch Center--Suite 305
Noon - 1:30 PM
21-22
ASC Co-Sponsor
International Workshop:"Reconstruction of the University of Liberia"
9:00AM - 5:00 PM
3619 Locust Walk
21
ASC,Middle East, History, Women's Studies
Beth Baron
(City University of New York)
"The Origins of Family Planning in Egypt"
Golkin Room,
Houston Hall
430PM -
22
ASC
K-12 Teacher Workshop
"Africa before European Colonization"
3601 Filbert Street
3:00PM - 5:00 PM
25-26
Schools of Medicine & Nursing
"ThePenn Summit on Global Issues in Women’s Health"
Zellerbach Theatre
8:00AM
 
May
13
ASC
K-12 Teacher Workshop
"Teaching and Learning about African Languages"
3601 Filbert Street
3:00PM - 5:00 PM
27
ASC
K-12 Teacher Workshop
"Teaching and Learning about Nubia"
3601 Filbert Street
3:00PM - 5:00 PM
 
June
20-24
ASC, Middle East Center
K-12 Teacher Institute
"Issues on Africa and the Arab World"

10:00AM - 5:00 PM

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