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2005
DECEMBER
12/01/05 Thursday 7pm Science & Engineering Resource Center Room 118, Busch	Short film selections: "Scenarios from the Sahel" World AIDS Day | flyer | map |
12/06/05 Tuessday 11am 12:30pm lunch RCHA Seminar Room CAC	RCHA's Black Atlantic/ African Diaspora Seminar Series presents Kate Burlingham, "Irreconcilable Differences: Decolonization and the Cold War in Angola 1975 - 1989" Copies of the paper are available at 88 College Avenue.
12/07/05 Wednesday 4:30pm RCHA Seminar Room CAC	RCHA's Black Atlantic/ African Diaspora Seminar Series presents Jacqueline N. Brown, "Dateline Britain, 2005: The Racial State of the Everyday"
7pm Cook Douglass Lecture Hall Room 102	Human Rights/Global Initiative Speaker Series presents Drucilla Cornell, "The Dignity Jurisprudence of South Africa" | flyer | map |
12/08/05 Thursday Noon - 2pm Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building DOUGLASS	Department of Africana Studies and Institute for Research on Women present a screening of the film "A Bahia do Afoxe Filhos de Gandhy" Brazilian filmmaker and activist Lino de Almeida will present his film and talk thereafter.
4pm BioSciences 206 DOUGLASS	Department of Anthropology presents Susan Pfeiffer, "Southern African Later Stone Age Skeletons and the Kalahari Model: 10,000 Years of Demography, Size, Strength, Violence, Weaning, Posture and Gender" Professor Pfeiffer is a faculty member of the Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto and of Archaeology, University of Cape Town. flyer
12/26/05 - 1/02/06 Monday - Monday	Winter Recess : Happy Holidays!
NOVEMBER
11/03/05 Thursday 4:30pm - 6pm RDJC Lecture Hall, Douglass	The Department of Africana Studies, Center for African Studies and Institute for Research on Women present Marc Epprecht, "Queer Matters in Africa: An Intellectual History." The lecture will be followed by a reception with light refreshments. flyer
11/04/05 Friday 4:30pm Ruth Adams Building, Rm. 206 Douglass	Filmmaker and University of Oregon psychology Professor Jan Haaken will screen her film on Sierra Leone entitled, "Diamonds, Guns and Rice: Sierra Leone and the Women's Peace Movement." She will also present the teaching book "Speaking Out: Women, War and the Global Econonmy"
11/05/05 Saturday 10am - 3pm Van Dyck Hall, Room 301 CAC	Post Workshop #1 for Fulbright-Hays participants to present curricular materials from the summer 2005 group project abroad entitled, "The Ghana-Benin Interior Slave Routes: History, Culture, and Experience"
11/06/05 Sunday 11am - 5:30pm Newark Museum	Trip to "Power Dressing" exhibit at Newark Museum for RU students. Bus will leave at 11am from Rutgers Student Center (CAC) and return at 5:30pm. Free of charge. Lunch will not be provided. If you would like to attend please e-mail your name, e-address and telephone number to Renee DeLancey: rdelance@rci.rutgers.edu by Friday, October 14.
11/09/05 Wednesday 10am College Hall, Livingston Student Center	Livingston Global Futures Symposia Lester P. Monts, "Cultural Memory and Resolving Conflict Among the Vai People of Liberia" flyer
11/11/2005 Friday 8am - 12pm College Hall, Livingston Student Center	TWESE, the African Student Organization, presents a Royal Pride Banquet: "Paying Tribute to the Contributions of Africa"
11/15/05 Tuesday 11:30am Beck Hall, Room 214 Livingston	English Department Visiting Scholar Stephane Robolin will give a brown bag lunch talk on South African writer Bessie Head and her relationship to international black women's literary circles.
11/16/05 Wednesday 7pm Cook Douglass Lecture Hall Room 102	Human Rights/Global Initiative Speaker Series presents Charlotte Bunch, "Gender, Bodily Integrity, and Human Rights " map
11/17/05 Thursday 6pm Trayes Hall Douglass Student Center	Department of Religion presents Carl Ernst, "Sufism, Islam, and Globalization in the Contemporary World" A performance of Sufi music will follow.
11/17-20/05 Thursday - Sunday Washington, D.C.	African Studies Association 2005 Annual Meeting, "Health, Knowledge, and the Body/Politic in Africa and the African Diaspora"
11/30/05 Wednesday 9am - 3:30pm	RCHA presents Ross Dunn, Department of History, San Diego State University: "World History in the Schools"
OCTOBER
10/03/05 Monday 4:30pm College Hall, Livingston	Livingston Global Futures Symposia Sandra Barnes, "Global Flows: Oil, Terror and Strategic Philanthropy" flyer
10/05/05 Wednesday 11:30am - 1pm Beck Hall, Room 214 Livingston	Brown Bag Lunch Tholiwe Zungu and Emmanuel Ndladla South African printmakers visiting the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper from September 18 through October 15 will discuss the Phumani Paper project flyer
10/12/05 Wednesday 7pm Dinner 8pm Movie Busch Campus Center Multipurpose Room	Dinner, Movie and Diaglogue: Hotel Rwanda Join us for cultural food, a discussion and a screening of the Oscar nominated film Hotel Rwanda. It is the true story of Paul Rusesabagina, a Rwandan Hotel manager, who courageously saved the lives of 1200 people during the Rwanda genocide in 1994. The program is free but tickets are required. Visit the Student Fund Accounting Office, (lower level) Student Activities Center, 613 George St, CAC. For more information contact Lawanda King, lirving@rutgers.edu or 732-932-7442. flyer
10/12/05 Wednesday 4pm - 6pm 1103 IAB Columbia University	David Hughes, "Conservation as a Cultural Project: Whites and Wilderness on Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe" flyer ** Please note: this lecture will be held at Columbia University.
10/13/05 Thursday 6pm - 9pm New Gibbons B, Recreation Ctr. Douglass	Africa Night: Join us for an evening of language student skits, prize awards, a study abroad overview and Rutgers initiatives in Africa. | flyer | directions |
10/17/05 Monday 8pm Rutgers Student Center Multipurpose Room	An Evening with Paul Rusesabagina Meet the real man behind the movie Hotel Rwanda. Mr. Rusesabagina will share first-hand accounts of his harrowing experience in 1994 and share his perspective on similar situations taking place in other African countries today. For more information contact Lawanda King, lirving@rutgers.edu or 732-932-7442. flyer
10/20/05 Thursday 8:10am Murray Hall, Room 212 CAC	Pamela Ateka, a Kenyan poet and AIDS activist, will give a talk in Barbara Cooper's "Women and Gender in Africa" class
4:30pm - 6pm IRW	IRW/Women's and Gender Studies Karen Musalo, "Gendered Injustice: Transcending the Male Paradigm in the U.S. and Beyond" flyer
10/21-22/05 Friday - Saturday RDJC Lecture Hall, Douglass Starts at 9:30am both days	RCHA Black Atlantic Symposium: "Diasporic Black Radicalisms in the Twentieth Century" Copies of the papers will be available at 88 College Avenue one week prior to the start of the conference. To obtain copies of the symposium papers, stop by the RCHA or contact the RCHA at (732) 932-8701 or rcha@rci.rutgers.edu. If you are planning to attend this event, please register online at: http://rcha.rutgers.edu/blackatlantic.php by Tuesday, October 18, 2005.
SEPTEMBER
09/28/05 Wednesday 7pm Cook Douglass Lecture Hall Room 102	Human Rights/Global Initiative Speaker Series presents Alison Des Forges, "Mass Justice After Mass Violence: The Case of the Rwandan Genocide" | flyer | map |
JUNE
6/25-7/29/05 Saturday - Friday	Teaching the History of the Slave Trade Routes of Ghana and Benin. [ Flyer | Program Description | Apply | Photos ]
MAY
05/17/05 Tuesday	Khotso Mokhele, president of the South African National Research Foundation, presents "The Southern Africa Large Telescope: A Vision for Africa, Rutgers and the World" Venue: Physics Lecture Hall (Busch), Time: 11am. Dr. Mokhele, chair of the SALT Board of Directors, will receive an honorary degree from Rutgers on May 18 Flyer
APRIL
04/01/05 Friday	Presentation by Jim McCann, "A New Agro-Ecology of Disease in Africa: Maize and Malaria in Ethiopia" Venue: College Ave Student Center, Rm 411 ABC, Time: 10am - 12pm [ Flyer | Recent Paper ]
04/01/05 Friday	Department of Africana Studies presents a day long workshop/conference "A Dialogue with Global Diaspora Studies" Venue: Livingston Student Center, College Hall A, Time: 9am - 6pm Flyer
04/06/05 Wednesday	Brown Bag Lunch Series - John Pavlik, "SCILS Journalism Initiatives in South Africa" Venue: 8 Bishop Place (CAC), Time: 11:30am - 12:30pm. [Flyer | Presentation (PowerPoint) ]
04/07-09/05 Thursday -Saturday	Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis presents a spring conference "Children and War" Scholars from a variety of disciplines to contribute to a global, historical and cross-cultural understanding of war and children. Venue: Douglass Campus, Time: begins 7:30pm 4/7 and ends 3:30pm 4/9. Please access the RCHA conference schedule for further details.
04/18/05 Monday	Translation, Tradition & Truth in Morocco Venue: Graduate Student Lounge (Rutgers Student Center), CAC, Time: 11:30am - 4pm Flyer
04/18/05 Monday	Kenda Mutongi presentation "Matatu Culture in Nairobi" Venue: 301 Van Dyck Hall (CAC), Time: 1pm - 3pm Flyer
04/20/05 Wednesday	Brown Bag Lunch Series - Dorothy Hodgson, "Transnational Advocacy and the Indigenous Rights Movement in Africa: Challenges to Sovereignty and Citizenship" Venue: 8 Bishop Place (CAC),Time: 11:30am - 12:30pm Flyer
04/22/2005 Friday	Douglass Black Students' Congress presents "Diaspora Day" Venue: Douglass College Center, Time: noon - midnight. For more information contact Cheryl Wilson: 732.932.9434 or wilson77@rci.rutgers.edu
04/26/2005 Tuesday	Department of Africana Studies, Africana House, Center for African Studies and Anthropology Department present "African Languages Night" Venue: New Gibbons “B” Recreation Center (Douglass), Time: 6:10pm-9pm Flyer
04/27/05 Wednesday	"South Africa Today: A Round Table Discussion" Venue: Beck Hall Room 250 (LIV), Time: 6pm - 7:30pm [ Flyer | Reception ]
04/29/05 Friday	Center for African Studies spring symposium - "African Immigrant Literature: Negotiating Identities Post 9/11" The conference will explore the contributions of African immigrants in the (re)construction of American identities in citizenship before, during and in the aftermath of the tragedy of September 11, 2001. Six African immigrant writers will present: Paul Zeleza, J. Nozipo Maraire, Akosua Busia, Manthia Diawara, Meena Alexander, Anouar Majid. Venue: Trayes Hall A (Douglass), Time: 8:30am - 5:30pm. [ Description | Program | Speakers | Poster | Directions ]
MARCH
03/03/05 Thursday	Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis presents: Headscarves in the Headlines: Religious Expression and Secularism in France. Venue: Conference Rm., Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Bldg at 162 Ryders Lane (Douglass), Time: 7:30pm Reception, 8pm Talk Flyer
03/04/05 Friday	Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture presents: Chance, Luck and Destiny: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Divination. Venue: Teleconference Lecture Hall, Alexander Library (CAC), Time: 1:30pm - 5pm. Contact CCACC at 2-8426 for further information.
03/04/05 Friday	Al Howard Outreach Workshop: Africa In World History. Lou Moore, Supervisor of Social Studies at Hackensack High, to participate. Venue: RCHA Seminar Rm., 88 College Ave (CAC) Time: 9am - 3:30pm. Please visit the RCHA website for further information.
03/05/05 Saturday	NY Regional African Historians Symposium: 2nd annual NY area workshop on African history includes works in progress of faculty and grad students from Rutgers, Princeton, Fairleigh Dickinson, Columbia, NYU, Montclair State, Stanford and many more. Venue: 301 Van Dyck Hall (CAC) Time: 8:30am - 7pm [ Flyer | Program | Bios and Abstracts ]
03/12-20/05 Saturday-Sunday	Spring Break
03/17-20/05 Thursday-Sunday	9th Annual African Language Teachers Association meeting. The theme will explore African languages at home and abroad and the forming of new realities, new communities and new priorities. Venue : Yale University. Please visit the ALTA website for further information.
03/22/2005 Tuesday	RCHA Tuesday Morning Seminar Series, Lia Paradis, "Imperial Children, International Adults: The Influence and Impact of an Anglo-Sudanese Childhood" Venue: Seminar Room, 88 College Avenue, (CAC) Time: 11am, lunch at 12:30pm. Copies of the paper are available at 88 College Avenue.
03/23/05 Wednesday	Brown Bag Lunch Series - Chantal Tetreault, "What's in a Name? Parental Name-calling among French Adolescents of Algerian Descent" Venue: 8 Bishop Place (CAC), Time: 11:30am - 12:30pm. Flyer
03/29/05 Tuesday	Film showing of Ousmane Sembene's "Moolaadé" to be accompanied by dinner and discussion. Dinner Venue: International Lounge, Busch Campus Center, Dinner Time:6pm. Film Venue: Center Hall, Busch Campus Center, Film Time: 7pm. For more information contact Lawanda King at 732.932.7442. Flyer
03/30/05 Wednesday	Global Initiatives Forum - Michael Kennedy, "The Cultural Politics of Globalizing Knowledge Production: Connectivity, Security, and Transcendence" Venue: CCES, 172 College Avenue, 1st flr conference room, (CAC) Time: 12:00pm [ Flyer | Suggested Readings ]
FEBRUARY
02/03/05 Thursday	RCHA Black Atlantic/African Diaspora 8th Annual Conference Series: The African Diaspora in Modern Europe: "Race, Archive and Memory" Venue: History Department, 301 VanDyck (CAC), Time: 11am - 7pm. Contact RCHA at 2-8701 for further information or visit their website.
02/06/05 Sunday	Association des Sénégalais D'Amerique présente un diner-débat, "De Kwamé NKruma à Cheikh Anta Diop, l'unité africaine mythe ou réalité?" Venue: Africa Kiné Restaurant, 247 W. 116th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues, Time: 5pm-9pm. Participation $15. Please call 212.932.0900 for further information. Flyer
02/07/05 Monday	Presentation by Lynn Thomas - "The Modern Girl, Cosmetic Debates, and Racial Respectability in 1930s South Africa" Venue: 301 Van Dyck Hall (CAC), Time: 4:30pm. Flyer
02/09/05 Wednesday	Brown Bag Lunch Series - Aissata Niandou, "Women in Nigérien Oral Literature" (selected reading from upcoming book) Venue: 8 Bishop Place (CAC), Time: 11:30am - 12:30pm. Flyer
02/11/2005 Friday	The Anthropology Graduate Student Association presents two films with an African theme in "Indigenous Filmmaking: Jaguar (1971) and Rouch In Reverse (1995)" Venue: Ruth Adams Bldg. Room 206 (Douglass), Time: 7:30pm. Flyer
02/17/05 Thursday	Presentation by Fred Cooper - "Imperial Citizenship : Unity, Difference and Nationality in Post-war French Africa" Venue: College Ave Student Center Rm 411 ABC, Time: 4:30pm. Flyer
02/23/05 Wednesday	Brown Bag Lunch Series - Yianna Liatsos, "The Catharsis of Apartheid Memory in the Post-Apartheid South Africa Novel" Venue: 8 Bishop Place (CAC), Time: 11:30am - 12:30pm. Flyer
02/26/05 Saturday	Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents Mehrangiz Kar: "Tribal Life and Womens Rights in Iran" Venue: Livingston College Student Center, Time: 6-10pm Flyer
JANUARY
01/26/05 Wednesday	Brown Bag Lunch Series - Liz Jordan, "It All Comes Out In The Wash: The Historical Archaeology of Slavery in Cape Town, South Africa" Venue: 8 Bishop Place (CAC), Time: 11:30am - 12:30pm. Flyer