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2006
DECEMBER
12/01/06 Friday 8pm Rutgers Student Center Room 410AB, CAC	CAS presents an annual World Aids Day film screening, "Yesterday" Special guest New Jersey Women and Aids Network will provide an introductory commentary on AIDS. | flyer |
12/05/06 Tuesday 7-9pm GSL CAC	CAS, Center for Latino Arts and Culture, Global Initiative, Douglass College Dean's Office, Women's and Gender Studies, Center for Women and Work, the Center for Women's Global Leadership and many more sponsors are pleased to present Global Grass Roots Leadership in Residence "Explaining Immigration: Family Farmer Leaders Speak Out Against Corporate Globalization" The panelists include Mariam Sissoko (Malian peasant farmer organization "CNOP"), Ciro Eduardo Correa ("MST" Brazil) and Edgardo Garcia Aguilar ("ATC" Nicaragua) For more information please visit Farmers Fight Back or contact William Kramer at 732-589-8024. | flyer | GGLIR brochure |
12/12/06 4:30pm RCHA Seminar Rm. 88 College Ave. CAC	RCHA's Black Atlantic/ African Diaspora Conference Series presents Simon Gikandi (Department of English, Princeton University), "Transforming Servitude: Art, Ritual, and Labor in the Culture of Slavery"
12/13/06 Wednesday 7pm Bartlett 123 Cook Douglass	Global Initiative Human Rights Speaker Series presents a talk by Drucilla Cornell (Professor of Political Science, Rutgers) entitled, "The Dignity Jurisprudence of South Africa" | flyer |
12/25/06 - 01/15/07	Winter Recess
NOVEMBER
11/6/06 Monday 4:30pm CSB, Room 112 New Brunswick	CAS and the Center for Women's Global Leadership present a talk by Visiting Global Associate Bene Madunagu (prominent Nigerian feminist activist and general coordinator for Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era "DAWN") | flyer |
11/9/06 Thursday 4pm Plangere Center Murray Hall, 302 CAC	CAS, the Office of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, the Center for Cultural Analysis and the Department of History present a talk by Francis Wilson (Professor School of Economics, University of Cape Town), "Half Way There: the Long Walk to Freedom and Economic Justice in South Africa" Reception will follow. | flyer |
11/9/06 Thursday 4pm reception 4:30pm lecture RDJC Building DOUGLASS	The Institute for Research on Women's Distinguished Lecture Series presents, "Interrogating Health and Bodies" The Rutgers Panel includes Meredeth Turshen (Bloustein School of Public Policy), Janet Golden (History) and Ben. Sifuentes-Jauregui (American Studies). Professor Turshen will discuss what has happened to African women in the decade since the International Conference on Population and Development met in Cairo in 1994.
11/10-11/06 Friday/Saturday Winants Hall, CAC	RCHA's Black Atlantic/ African Diaspora Conference Series and the Center for Race and Ethnicity present a workshop, "Katrina, New Orleans, and the Fate of the Nation"
11/16-19/06 Thursday-Sunday San Francisco	Annual African Studies Association conference, "(Re)Thinking Africa and the World: Internal Reflections, External Responses" For more information contact ASA at 732.932.8173.
11/27/06 Monday 4:30pm RCHA Seminar Rm. 88 College Ave. CAC	RCHA's Black Atlantic/ African Diaspora Conference Series presents Martha Jones (Department of History, University of Michigan), "Riding the Atlantic World Circuit: One Household's Journey Through the Law of Slavery and Freedom"
11/29/06 Wednesday 8pm Rar. Riv. Lounge SAC CAC	TWESE presents "Looking for Hope: an HIV-AIDS Benefit Program for the Children of Port Elizabeth, South Africa" Ubuntu Education Fund, TWESE Dance Troupe, poetry from Successor and more will be featured. Refreshments will be served. | flyer |
OCTOBER
10/09/06 Monday 2pm Room 138A Foran Hall, SEBS COOK	RU AgBiotech Center, SEBS's Department of Plant Biology and Pathology and RU Foundation present an international seminar by Kelly Chibale (Professor, Organic Chemistry, University of Cape Town, South Africa), "Inspiration from Natural Products: Medicinal Chemistry of Chemosensitizers against Drug Resistant Malaria Parasites" For more information please call 732-932-9711, ext. 211.
10/11/06 Wednesday 7pm Dinner 8pm Film Multipurpose Room Busch Campus Center	CAS and Rutgers College Enhancement Programs and Multicultural Affairs present, Dinner, Movie and Dialogue: "Tsotsi" 2006 Academy Award Winner for Best Foreign Language Film | flyer |
10/18/06 Wednesday 11:30am CCA, 8 Bishop Place CAC	CAS Brown Bag Series presents Ben Neimark (Ph.D. student, Geography), "History of a Hotspot: Environmental Science, Policy, and Justice in Madagascar" | flyer |
10/24/06 Tuesday 8pm Room 402 RU Student Center CAC	CAS presents a talk by Stephen Eric Bronner (Professor of Political Science), "The Sudan and the Crisis in Darfur" | flyer |
10/25/06 Wednesday 7pm Bartlett 123 Cook Douglass	Global Initiative Human Rights Speaker Series presents a talk by Mahmood Mamdani (Professor of Government and of Anthropology, Columbia University) entitled, "Good Muslim, Bad Muslim" | flyer |
10/26/06 Thursday 4:30pm-6:30pm RDJC 162 Ryders Lane DOUGLASS	Center for Women's Global Leadership invites you to "Women's Human Rights in a Globalized World of States" for an international perspective on the history and future of women's human rights leadership and activism. Featured speakers from Africa are: Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi (Nigeria/Ghana; The African Women's Development Fund); Bene Madunagu (Nigeria; Girls Power Initiative and Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era); Zeedah Meierhofer-Mangeli (Kenya/UK; Akina Mama wa Afrika); Shamilla Wilson (South Africa; Association for Women's Rights in Development) Reception to follow. RSVP not required. | participant list | flyer |
10/26/06 Thursday 6pm-9pm New Gibbons B Rec Center DOUGLASS	CAS, the Department of Africana Studies, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies present African Languages Night. Language students will perform skits in Arabic, Swahili, Yoruba and Xhosa. Light food. Join us as we celebrate the beauty of languages of Africa! | flyer | directions |
10/27/06 Friday 8pm-12am Rutgers Stud. Ctr. Multi Purp. Room CAC	TWESE (a student association of Africans and Africa enthusiasts) invites you to their "Annual African Royal Pride Banquet" which celebrates Africa's rich culture through traditional food, music, art, and performances. Tickets are $5 in advance and $7 at the door. For more information contact Idayat (201-491-9916) or Roseline (862-368-5843).
SEPTEMBER
09/13/06 Wednesday 7pm Bartlett 123 Cook Douglass	Global Initiative Human Rights Speaker Series presents a talk by Abdullahi An-Na'im (Professor of Law, Emory University) entitled, "Human Rights and Global Citizenship: An Islamic Perspective" | flyer |
09/20/06 Wednesday 9:30pm Murray 210 CAC	RU STAND Coalition presents a film screening of "Lost Boys of Sudan" Abena Busia (Acting Director, CAS) will introduce the film and moderate the discussion afterwards. For more information contact Sakina Namazi: snamazi@eden.rutgers.edu | flyer |
09/21/06 Thursday 11:30am CCA, 8 Bishop Place CAC	CAS Brown Bag Series presents Laura Ann Pechacek (Ph.D. student, History of Atlantic Cultures and African Diaspora), "'[M]emoire de sang': Re-presenting Africa in Crime Fiction" | flyer |
09/26/06 Tuesday 4:30pm TLH, 4th floor Alexander Library CAC	RCHA's Black Atlantic/ African Diaspora Conference Series and the Center for Race and Ethnicity present "The Question of the West" inaugural lecture by Kwame Anthony Appiah (Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University), "West of What?" Reception will follow talk.
MAY
05/03/06 Wednesday 9am - Noon Van Dyck Room 301 CAC	Annual CAS Spring Retreat (light lunch included)
05/04/06 Thursday 4:30pm RCHA Seminar Room 88 College Ave CAC	RCHA's Black Atlantic/ African Diaspora Seminar Series presents a talk by Waldo Martin, Jr. (University of California, Berkeley) entitled, "Be Real Black for Me: Representation, Authenticity, and the Problem of Modern Black Cultural Politics" For a copy of the paper please send an e-mail to rcha@rci.rutgers.edu | flyer |
05/04/06 Thursday 6:30pm Bloustein School 33 Livingston Ave. 2nd floor Student Lounge CAC	The Black Student Organization for Planning and Policy and the Rutgers Graduate Student Association present a graduate mixer, "Soul Food and Socializing" Appetizers will be offered and cards/board games will be played.
APRIL
04/06/2006 Thursday 4:30pm Rutgers Student Center Room 411ABC CAC 04/07/2006 Friday 10am-noon CCA	The Global Initiative presents Walter Mignolo, Duke University Professor of Literature, Cultural Anthropology and Romance Studies (Latin America), "Globalization and De-colonial Thinking" Public lecture Thursday; seminar Friday followed by lunch. flyer
04/12/06 Wednesday 4:30pm RCHA Seminar Room 88 College Ave CAC	The Black Atlantic / African Diaspora Seminar Series presents Imani Perry (Rutgers Camden, School of Law) "A Black and Principled Disdain: The Practice of Racial Inequality in Post-Intent Times" Copies of the paper are available at 88 College Avenue.
04/12/06 Wednesday 4:30pm Rutgers Student Center, Room 410 AB CAC	Center for African Studies presents Meredeth Turshen, "Academic Freedom After 9/11" flyer
04/18/06 Tuesday 5:30pm RJC Building Conference Room DOUGLASS	Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Department of Women's and Gender Studies, Department of Anthropology and RULAS present a talk by Miguel Vale de Almeida (Professor of Social Anthropology, ISCTE Lisbon), "On the Lusophone Postcolony: 'culture', 'race', 'language' " flyer
04/18/06 Tuesday 9pm Murray Hall Room 210 CAC	National STAND Coalition at Rutgers presents a film screening of "Lost Boys of Sudan" with special guest post-commentary by Barbara Cooper. This documentary follows two Sudanese refugees and reveals the atrocities currently taking place in Darfur, Sudan. For more information please contact Alison Lazaro at aflazaro@eden.rutgers.edu | flyer |
04/20/06 Thursday 2:15-3:30pm HSB Room 106 50 Bishop St. DOUGLASS	Department of Religion presents a talk by Shaun Marmon (Princeton University) entitled, "Gender and Sexuality in the Islamic Tradition"
04/22/06 Saturday 8pm Reception 9pm Dinner Hilton Hotel East Brunswick	A Sungai Event presents Quintessence Ball 2006: A Celebration of African People in World History Award Honorees include Her Excellency Barbara Masekela (Ambassador of South Africa to the United States), His Excellency Dr. Abdulahi Adamu (Executive Governor of Nasarawa State, Nigeria), High Chief Raymond Aleogho Dokpesi (Executive Chairman, African Independent Television), and Mr. Kassahun Checole (Publisher, Africa World Press, Inc.) Ticket price is $75. For more information please call 609.851.9484 | invitation | rsvp |
MARCH
03/02/06 Thursday 7pm Alexander Library Teleconference Lecture Hall CAC	The First Annual African Studies Association Presidential Lecture Joseph Miller, President African Studies Association: "Life Begins at Fifty: African Studies Enters its Age of Awareness" If you plan to attend and are not from Rutgers please park in the College Avenue parking deck and display the required non-Rutgers parking permit on your dashboard. | invitation | directions | non-Rutgers parking permit |
03/04/06 Saturday Columbia University School of International Affairs Building Morningside Heights	Annual New York Area African History Workshop Sponsored by Columbia's Institute of African Studies and Department of History Graduate students and faculty interested in presenting historical research on Africa are invited to send a title and a one paragraph paper proposal to nycafricanisthistorians@gmail.com by Friday, 17 February. Please e this same address for proposals and inquiries. program
03/04/06 Saturday 10:30am Cook/Douglass Co-Op Bookstore	Rutgers bus trip to New York Historical Society's "Slavery in New York" exhibit, sponsored by the Office of Student Involvement and Leadership. Bus departs from the front of the Cook/Douglass Co-Op Bookstore. Tickets are $10 per person, sold at the DCC Info Desk. For more information contact Cheryl Wilson.
03/09/06 Thursday 9pm Makeda's New Brunswick	Irungu Mutu directs a play entitled "Ukimwi" about a Kenyan woman who encounters an American expatriate in a Cairo hotel bar. Admission is free, all are welcome. Duration is 35 minutes. Performance on Sunday, March 12 as well; same venue.
03/11-19/06 Saturday - Sunday	SPRING BREAK
03/12/06 Sunday 9pm Makeda's New Brunswick	Irungu Mutu directs a play entitled "Ukimwi" about a Kenyan woman who encounters an American expatriate in a Cairo hotel bar. Admission is free, all are welcome. Duration is 35 minutes.
03/20/06 Monday 4:30pm - 6pm Paul Robeson Cultural Center BUSCH	Department of Africana Studies presents a public talk by Alamin Mazrui (Professor of Sociolinguistics, Ohio State University), "The Politics of Translation: Orwell in Postcolonial East Africa" flyer
03/21/06 Tuesday 4:30pm - 7pm Alexander Library Teleconference Lecture Hall CAC	Center for Cultural Analysis presents Isabel Hofmeyer, Professor of African Literature at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. She will hold an informal seminar on her book "The Portable Bunyan" and thereafter give a talk entitled "Reading in Heaven: The Circulation of Letters Between Heaven and Earth." flyer
03/22/06 Wednesday 5pm Trayes Hall A Douglass College Center DOUGLASS	RU Amnesty International presents a talk by Yifat Susskind (Associate Director of the international women's human rights organization MADRE), "A Test of Inequality: Women's Health and Gender Inequities in Kenya" For more information contact Karen Cornell (kcornell@eden.rutgers.edu) or visit http://www.ruamnesty.org | flyer |
03/23/06 Thursday 1:30pm - 4:30pm University Inn Conference Room A	The National African Language Resource Center headed by Professor Antonia Folarin Schleicher of the University of Wisconsin will sponsor the ALTA pre-conference workshop, "Classroom Implications of the ACTFL Oral Proficiency Guidelines." Dr. Ray Clifford, Director of the BYC Language Center, will lead the workshop.
03/23-25/06 Thursday - Saturday University Inn	Rutgers will host the 10th annual conference of the African Language Teachers Association. | flyer |
03/24/06 Friday 9am - 3:30pm	RCHA presents a talk for high school teachers by Allen Howard, Department of History, "Incorporating the African Slave Trade and its Legacy into the Curriculum" For more information please contact Lynn Shanko at 2-8701.
03/28/06 Tuesday 11:30am Beck Hall, Room 214 Center for African Studies LIV	Brown Bag Lunch talk by 2005-2006 Humphrey Fellow Nosayaba Tukura (Nigeria), "Misperceptions of African Women" flyer
03/28/06 Tuesday 7:30pm Ruth Adams Bldg., 204 DOUGLASS	Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Program in Comparative Literature and Department of Africana Studies present Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo (Visiting Scholar, Afro-Romance Institute, University of Missouri), "Literatura Guineana, una Realidad Emergente" (in Spanish) flyer
FEBRUARY: Black History Month
02/07/06 Tuesday 7pm Dinner, International Lounge 8pm Film, Center Hall Busch Student Center	Dinner and film screening of the documentary by Peter Bates, "Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death" |flyer|
02/08/06 Wednesday 11:30am-1pm Beck Hall, Room 214 Livingston	Brown Bag Lunch talk by Plant Science Professor Ilya Raskin, "International Bioprospecting and Africa" flyer
02/10/06 Friday	Rutgers student group trip to NYC for "Drumstruck" (interactive production of African dance, singing and drumming) Sign up details and time tba.
02/16/06 Thursday 7pm Trayes Hall A DOUGLASS	The Crisis in Darfur, Sudan: A Panel Discussion sponsored by the Global Initiative, Office of VP Arts & Humanities, Institute for Research on Women, Center for Middle Eastern Studies flyer Jay Spaulding (Department of History, Kean University) "Historical Perspectives on a Land in Crisis" Asma Abdel Halim (University of Toledo/ Women and Gender Studies) "War of Power and Wealth, Where Women Do Not Count" Jemera Rone (Human Rights Watch) "Darfur and Accountability for Crimes Against Humanity" Manus Midlarsky, Discussant Political Science Department, Rutgers University
02/20/06 Monday 6:30pm Trayes Hall B DOUGLASS	Dinner, film, and lecture, "The Darfur Diaries" A special human rights presentation sponsored by the Douglass College Office of Student Involvement and the "Africana House" of the Douglass College Global Village, co-sponsored by the Douglass Black Students' Congress (DBSC) and RU STAND (RU Students Take Action Now in Darfur). Authentic African dinner catered by Awujoh Restaurant. Free admission but RSVP REQUIRED (you must pre-register in order to be admitted) by contacting Ellen Weirich at ezera@rci.rutgers.edu by Friday, February 17 at 4pm.
02/21/2006 Tuesday 6:30pm Paul Robeson Cultural Center BUSCH	Thelma Tate Memorial Lecture sponsored by the Global Literacy Project, Africana Studies Department and the Paul Robeson Cultural Center. For more information contact Olubayi Olubayi at 732.445.3334 or the Paul Robeson Cultural Center at 732.445.3545
02/23-24/06 Thursday 7pm Alexander Library Teleconference Lecture Hall CAC Friday 10am - 12pm CCES Seminar Room 172 College Avenue CAC	The Global Initiative presents Allen Isaacman, Director Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change/MacArthur Program, University of Minnesota. Public lecture Thursday evening, "Forging Transnational Knowledge Networks and Creating a Global University." Faculty workshop Friday morning. flyer
02/28/06 Tuesday 11:30am Beck Hall, Room 214 Center for African Studies LIV	Brown Bag Lunch talk by 2005-2006 Humphrey Fellow Hawayda Barakat (Egypt), "Daughters of The Nile: Assessing The Egyptian Women's Movement" flyer
JANUARY
01/30/06 Monday 4:30pm RCHA Seminar Room College Avenue Campus	RCHA Black Atlantic/ African Diaspora Seminar Series presents Pamela Scully, "Race and Erazure: Sara Baartman and Hendrik Cezar in Cape Town and London" Please contact RCHA for Pamela's paper. flyer