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2008 Spring Quarter
Schedule:
**Time: 6pm in Wilder House unless otherwise noted**
Tue April 8
Robert Blunt (PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology)
Title:
Corruptus Interruptus: The Limits of Transactional Imaginaries in Moi’s
Kenya
Discussant:
Chelsey Kivland (PhD Student, Department of Anthropology)
*Mon April 14 - Special Event
Aly Drame (History Department, Dominican University)
Title: Migration, Marriage and
Ethnic Identity Transformation:
The Early Development of Islam in Pre-Colonial
Casamance, Senegal
Discussant:
François Richard (Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago)
*Location:
Pick Hall Room 218
*Time:
Monday, April 14, 5pm
*Co-Sponsored
with Northwestern University’s
Institute
for the Study of Islamic Thought
in Africa and the
University of
Chicago’s Middle
Eastern History and Theory Workshop
Tue April 22 – Film Screening and Roundtable
Discussion
Cherif
Keita (Department
of Romance Languages and Literatures, Carleton College) Film:
Oberlin-Inanda: The Life and Times of John L. Dube
Synopsis:
Shot in Oberlin, Ohio, and in Inanda, Kwazulu Natal Province, South
Africa, Cherif Keita’s 55-minute documentary film features the life and
work of John Langalibalele Dube (1871-1946), pioneer educator,
journalist, musician, churchman, and politician who co-founded the
African National Congress in 1912 and served as its first President until
1917. Oberlin-Inanda connects Dube’s American education with his struggle
for political and economic independence and celebrates his enduring
legacy in today’s democratic South Africa.
*Thur May 1
Nick Smith (PhD Student, Department of Political Science)
Title: Neo-Liberal Democracy: Freedom, Economy, and Governmentality
in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Discussant:
Toussaint Losier (PhD Student, History Department)
*Location:
Pick Hall Room 105
*Time:
Thursday, May 1, 4:30-6pm
*Co-Sponsored with the Human
Rights Workshop
Tue
May 6
Karen
Morris
(Anthropology, Art Institute of Chicago)
Title: Placing
Côte d'Ivoire: Transnational Families, Crisis, and
the Imagining of a
National Geography
Discussant:
Michal Ran (PhD Student, Department of Anthropology)
*Wed
May 14-Special Event- Red Lion Seminar
Souleymane
Bachir Diagne (Department
of Philosophy, Northwestern University)
Title: African Intellectuals React to
Sarkozy's Speech in Dakar: Presenting “L'Afrique Repond à Sarkozy”
*Location:
PAS
620, Library Place, Northwestern’s Evanston Campus
*Time:
Wednesday, May 14, 12pm
*Co-Sponsored
with Northwestern University’s Program in African
Studies
Tue
May 20
Jonny Steinberg
Title: Sizwe’s
Test: A Young Man’s Journey Through Africa’s AIDS Epidemic
Tue
May 27
Dorothea Schulz (Department of Religious Studies,
Indiana University)
Title: (Re)mediating Politics and Moral
Community: Jeli Singers and the Paradoxes of Replication in Mali,
1968-1991
Discussant:
William Mazzarella (Department of Anthropology)
Tue
June 3
Bianca Dahl (PhD Candidate, Comparative Human Development)
Title: TBA
Discussant: TBA
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