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Current Events for Spring 2007
January |
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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 | ||
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February |
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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 | Symposium "Cosmopolitan Egypt" |
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 Africas 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 |
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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 | Conference: "Sudan Studies Association" | Houston Hall |
Co-Sponsors: ASC, Middle East |