Calendar of Events

October 2008

Friday 3rd

Public Lecture - Co-sponsored with the French Department
Speaker: Dominic Thomas – Chair, UCLA French & Francophone Studies
Topic: France and/in Europe - Nationalism and Immigration 

Time: 2:30 pm @ Kanbar 107

Friday 24th

Colloquium & Monthly Meeting
Speaker: Alexander Petroff – President, Working Villages International.
Topic: Community Development Initiatives in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Time: 2:00 - 4:00 pm @ Adams Hall Room 312

November 2008

Friday 14th

Majors & Minors Monthly Student Gathering
Time: 4:00 - 6:00 pm @ Adams Hall Room 312

Thursday 20th

Gay & Lesbian Studies presents the Gay and Lesbian Identities Across Cultures Lecture Series, featuring:

Speaker: Robert Reid-Pharr - "Clean: Reading Samuel Delany's Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand"

Time: 7:30 pm in Searles 315

Co-sponsored by Africana Studies, BQSA, English and Gay & Lesbian Studies 

Friday 21st

Students Research Symposium. Topics will include:

  • Watchtower Jehovah’s Witness Movement in Colonial and Postcolonial Zambia;
  • Soul Music in 1960s United States;
  • Black Women, Christian Theology and African American Struggle for Freedom;
  • The Nigerian Civil War: Origins and Discourse;
  • Identities of Ethiopian Jews in Israel and Ethiopia;
  • Swedish Missionaries and Community Development in Postcolonial Africa;
  • Rastafarianism in Africa and Jamaica.

Refreshments will be served

Time: 9:00 am - 12:30 pm, in Adams Hall 312


December 2008

Friday 5th

Conference - Transnational Africa & Globalization. Speakers will include:

  • Pius Adesanmi - Associate Professor of English, Carleton University (Canada)
  • Ousseina Alidou - Director of African Languages and Literature, Rutgers University
  • Melanie Bush - Assistant Professor - Anthropology & Sociology, Adelphi University
  • Mora McLean - President and CEO - the Africa-America Institute
  • Mojúbàolú Olúfunké Okome - Professor of Political Science - Brooklyn College, CUNY
  • Elisha Renne - Associate Professor - Anthropology and Afroamerican & African Studies, University of Michigan
  • Peyi Soyinka-Airewele - Assistant Professor of Comparative & International Politics, Ithaca College
  • Samuel Zalanga - Associate Professor of Sociology, Bethel University

Time: 8:30 am - 4:00 pm @ Nixon Lounge, 3rd floor of Hawthorne-Longfellow Library

Friday 12th

Africana Studies End-of-Semester Party

Dinner will be served

Time: 5:30 - 8:00 pm. Location to be announced.