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"Traces of a Life: A Collection of Elegies and Praise Poems" |
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"Disorientations: Spanish Colonialism in Africa and the Performance of Identity" |
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Indian Journal of Gender Studies "What has Happened in Africa since Cairo? " |
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SPRING 2010 HIGHLIGHTS |
Meet the CAS Graduate Affiliates! See their photos and read about their research of Africa! |
The Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis presents a "Vernacular Epistemologies" seminar by Barbara Cooper (History) entitled, "Toward a History of the Perception of Childbirth and Fertility in the Hausa-Speaking Sahel." |
The Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy's Meredeth Turshen presents a "Two Day Teach-in on Afghanistan and Pakistan." February 9-10 Tuesday, 9am-4pm Wednesday, 6pm-9pm Trayes Hall, DCC DOUGLASS |
CAS and the Department of History present a Black History Month film screening by Ousmane Sembène and Thierno Faty Sow entitled, Camp de Thiaroye (1987, Senegal, 153 minutes; in Wolof and French with English subtitles). Ben Twagira will introduce the film and lead a post-discussion. Monday, February 15, 7pm Graduate Student Lounge CAC |
CAS, the Office of Undergraduate Education, International Programs, and Comparative Literature proudly present "An African Movie and Dialogue"/"Ecologies in the balance? Thinking through the crises" collaborative film screening of the film, "Becoming a Woman in Okrika." Special guest Mojubaolu Okome (Political Science, Brooklyn College CUNY) will speak after the 30 minute film about the Niger Delta and its relationship with gender and politics. Okome's talk is entitled, "Girls to Women: Responses to Social & Ecological Challenges in Okrika." February 17 Wednesday, 3:20-4:40pm Beck Hall Room 219 LIV |
CONFERENCE "Crossroads: Migration, Language, and Literature in Africa" February 25-27 Pre-symposium presentation by Ngugi wa Thiong'o, "African Languages at the Crossroads of History" Thursday, Feb. 25, 7pm Zimmerli Lower Dodge Gallery |
ZIMMERLI ART EXHIBITION Moroccan Artist Lalla Essaydi's Les Femmes du Maroc January 30 - June 6  Les Femmes du Maroc: Grande Odalisque, chromogenic print mounted on aluminum, 2008. The work above is lent by the Artist Lalla Essaydi, Courtesy of the Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, New York and the Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts. |
