African Studies Center

University of Pennsylvania

Additional Event Listings:

Current Events for Spring 2007

 
January
 
22
Rita Barnard
(U. of Pennsylvania)
"Apartheid and Beyond: South African Writers and the Politics of Race"
3601 Walnut Street
5 - 6 PM
Penn Bookstore
31
Symposium:
"Penn Medical School in Botswana"
BRBII/III, 421 Curie Boulevard
4:30 - 6:30 PM
Penn School of Medicine
.
February
.
6
Co-sponsored by the Solomon Asch Center,
the Middle East Center and the African Studies Center
Lee Cassanelli
(U of Pennsylvania)
"The Rise and Fall of the Islamic Courts in Somalia"
Asch Center, Suite 305, St. Leonard's Court
Noon - 1:30 PM
6
Wendy Griswold
(Northwestern U)
“Cowbirds, the Reading Class, and the Future of Place”
Room 500 Annenberg School
Noon - 1:00 PM
Penn Sociology Dept.
9
Room 209, College Hall,
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Co-Sponsored with Middle East Center
17
"World Culture Day: Celebration of African Cultures"
Penn Museum, 3260 South Street
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Penn Museum
20
"Peace v. Justice: A Discussion on Northern Uganda"
Silverman Hall, 3400 Chestnut Street, S-245A
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Penn Law International Human Rights Advocates
26
"Teaching about Africa: Cultural and Natural Diversities"
816 Williams Hall
3:30 - 6:00 PM
Outreach Workshop
27
Stephen Lewis
(Former UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa)
"Race Against Time:
Confronting Global Health Challenges
"
Huntsman Hall Auditorium
6:00 PM
Provost Global Forum & ASC
March
1
Africana Studies Center
"The Darfur Symposium"
Hall of Flags, Houston Hall
3417 Spruce Street
12:30 PM -
15
Co-sponsors: Health & Societies, African Studies, & the International
Affairs Association
Dr. William Easterly
"The White Man's Burden: How the West's Efforts to aid the Rest
Have Done so Much Ill and so Little Good"
Logan Hall G17
(36th St. btw Walnut & Locust)
6:30 PM
16
Neville Hoad
(University of Texas)
Global Gender Seminar: The "African" HIV/AIDS Pandemic
Logan Hall, 249 South 36th Street, Room 436
Alice Paul Center
19
Brad Weiss
(College of William and Mary)
Captivating Exclusion: Socio-Cultural Dynamics in an Era of Excess Captivating Exclusion: (Urban Tanzania)
Room 345 University Museum.
4:30 - 6:00 PM
Penn Anthropology Dept.
23
Humanities Forum
9:30 AM- 6:00 PM
ASC Event
27
Penn Humanities Forum
John Ghazvinian,
(Andrew Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Humanities)
"Untapped: The Scramble for Africa’s Oil"
Penn Humanities Forum
5:30 PM
29
"Using Films in Teaching about Africa"
816 Williams Hall
3:30 - 6:00 PM
Outreach Workshop
30
"African Languages Cultural Day"
Duois College
5:00 - 8:00 PM
ASC Event
 
April
5-6
"Legacies of Power:
Conversations with Jean Marie Teno"
Bryn Mawr & Haverford Colleges
Bryn Mawr & Haverford Colleges
13
Political Science Dept.
Robert L. Ostergard, Jr.
(University of Nevada, Reno)
"Leaders and Perceptions in Crisis: An Institutional Framework forUnderstanding Variations in African Governments' Responses to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic"
Stiteler Hall Forum
12-2:00PM
19-20
Jon M. Huntsman Hall
ASC-Sponsored
19
"African Immigrants in Philadelphia"
639 Williams Hall
3:30 - 6:00 PM
Outreach Workshop
20
Annual Colloquium:
"Re-Presenting Africa"
Terrace Room, Logan Hall
8:30 AM - 6:00 PM
ASC
25
Outreach Workshop
"African Languages in School Curriculum"
816 Williams Hall
3:30 - 6:00 PM
 
May
10
Outreach Workshop
"Teaching about Egypt"
816 Williams Hall
3:30 - 6:00 PM
18
"Living and Traveling in Africa"
816 Williams Hall
3:30 - 6:00 PM
Outreach Workshop
25-27
Houston Hall
Co-Sponsors: ASC, Middle East

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