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EVENTS CALENDAR 2009-2010
last updated November 20, 2009
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| SEPTEMBER 24 Thursday 3pm EOHSI, Conference Room C 170 Frelinghuysen Road LIVINGSTON The Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute presents a talk by John Ulanga (Director, Foundation for Civil Society in Tanzania) and Bernard Kindole (FCST) entitled, "Environmental Challenges in Tanzania: Role of Civil Society." The Foundation is one of the largest support mechanisms for civil society in Tanzania, and is committed to delivering grant aid and supporting capacity-building initiatives as a means of strengthening effective engagement in poverty reduction. They reach out to 400 NGOs in Tanzania. |
| OCTOBER 1 Thursday 2:30pm-6pm Alexander Library 4th floor Teleconference Lecture Hall CAC flyer The Developing Room, a working group at the Rutgers Center for Cultural Analysis devoted to the study and practice of photography, invites you to attend a symposium entitled, "Photography & Medicine: Critical and Creative Perspectives." In this one-day symposium, six speakers will offer a variety of critical and creative perspectives on the relationship between photography and medicine. The goal of the event is to explore new questions concerning the historical, aesthetic, social, and ethical dimensions of that relationship. Two of the presenters include CAS member and Historian Julie Livingston and Eric Gottesman, a visiting photographer whose work includes projects in Ethiopia. |
| OCTOBER 6 Tuesday 11am-12:30pm RCHA Seminar Room 88 College Avenue CAC flyer The Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis presents a Vernacular Epistemologies Seminar by Jesse Bucher (University of Minnesota) entitled, "Nakedness and the Reconstruction of Steve Biko's Death." Seminars are followed by a catered lunch. Papers are available at the RCHA one week prior to the seminar date. For more information call the RCHA at 732.932.8701. |
| OCTOBER 6 Tuesday 3:20pm-4:40pm Beck Hall 219 LIVINGSTON flyer CAS, the Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures, and the Institute for Women and Art present a talk by artist Janet Goldner (member of the Malian artists cooperative entitled, "Groupe Bogolan Kasobane") entitled, "i ni ce, thank you, merci: The Art of the Groupe Bogolan Kasobane." Special thanks to Professor Charles Owu-Ewie for incorporating this talk into his African Folklore and Myth course 01:013:312:01. |
| OCTOBER 8 Thursday 1pm BSPP, Room 253 33 Livingston Avenue New Brunswick flyer The Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy's 2009-2010 Colloquium Series presents a talk by Gabriella Carolini (Urban Planning) entitled, "Crowded out: how housing loses out among fiscal and social reforms in Maputo, Mozambique." |
| OCTOBER 9 Friday 7pm-8pm reception 8pm-10pm banquet 10pm-midnight dance Cook Campus Center COOK Twese (the organization for African Students and Friends of Africa) presents the Annual African Royal Pride Banquet. Leslie Christian (Ambassador & Permanent Representative of The Republic of Ghana to The United Nations) is the keynote speaker. Tickets ($7 students; $10 guests) can be purchased in advance at the Student Activities Center (613 George Street) or at the door. Traditional African attire or business casual is preferred. For more information on the banquet and for details on how to join Twese contact President Gilbert Bonsu: (gbonsu@eden.rutgers.edu). Weekly member meetings are held on Wednesdays at 8pm in the Paul Robeson Cultural Center; all are welcome. |
| OCTOBER 13 Tuesday 1:40pm-3pm Beck Hall 221 LIVINGSTON flyer The Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures and CAS present a public lecture by Hailu Habtu (Ethiopian Oral and Written Literature, Institute of Ethiopian Studies) entitled, "Encounter: An Ethiopian Literary Wit and British Working Class Folk." |
| OCTOBER 14 Wednesday 4:30pm-6:30pm RDJC 1st floor conf. rm. DOUGLASS flyer CAS and the Institute for Research on Women present a symposium entitled, "Gender and Islam in Africa." The presenters include Ousseina Alidou (AMESALL), Karima Bennoune (School of Law, RU-Nwk), and Zakia Salime (Sociology) who will discuss what they've learned from their work in Kenya, Niger, Morocco and Algeria. |
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| OCTOBER 23 Friday 2 pm Reception will follow talk Lucy Stone Hall, B-115 LIVINGSTON flyer The Geography Department and the SAS Dean of International Programs present a 2009-2010 Geography Department Colloquium Series talk by Dr. Roderick Neumann (Global and Sociocultural Studies, Florida International University) entitled, “Biodiversity narratives: Embedded notions of history, culture, and nature in conservation practices in Europe and Africa.” Dr. Roderick Neumann is author of Imposing Wilderness: Struggles over Livelihood and Nature Preservation in Africa (1998); Research in Non-Timber Forest Product Commercialization (2000); Making Political Ecology (2005); and The Human Mosaic: A Cultural Approach to Human Geography (2009). |
| NOVEMBER 4 Wednesday 7pm Graduate Student Lounge CAC flyer CAS and the Office of Undergraduate Education present "An African Movie and Dialogue" documentary film screening of legendary Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum entitled, "Umm Kulthum: A Voice Like Egypt" (Egypt; 1996). Advanced Arabic students Hoda Abdolrazek and Mervette Jebara will introduce the film and lead the post-discussion. Visitors may park in lots 26 and 30 without a permit. |
| NOVEMBER 5 Thursday 4:30pm-6pm RCHA Seminar Room 88 College Avenue CAC flyer The Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis presents a Black Atlantic Seminar by Brian Purnell (Fordham University) entitled, "A Movement Grows in Brooklyn: Civil Rights and Black Power in Postwar New York." A copy of the paper is available at 88 College Avenue. For further information or to receive a copy of the paper, please contact rcha@rci.rutgers.edu. |
| NOVEMBER 11 Wednesday 4pm-6pm Douglass Campus Center Trayes Hall 100 George Street DOUGLASS The Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and the Global Initiative program present a panel discussion on endangered languages entitled, "Linguistic Ecologies in the Balance." K. David Harrison (Swarthmore) will represent Central Asia and the former Soviet Union; Aaron D. Rubin (Penn State) and Charles Haberl (AMESALL/ CMES) will represent the Middle East; and Ousseina Alidou (AMESALL/CAS) will represent Africa. For more information please contact Charles Haberl: haberl@rci.rutgers.edu. |
| NOVEMBER 11 Wednesday 7pm Alexander Library 4th Floor Teleconference Lecture Hall 169 College Avenue CAC flyer The Peggy Friedman Memorial Foundation, CAS, the College Avenue Campus Dean, the School of Social Work, the Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures, and the Sierra Leonean community of New Jersey present a talk by Ambrose James (Search for Common Ground) entitled, "Radio Sierra Leone: Media, Public Broadcasting, and Democracy." Non-Rutgers Visitors may park in lots 26, 30, and the College Avenue Parking Deck without a permit. |
| NOVEMBER 19 Thursday 4:30pm-6pm RCHA Seminar Room 88 College Avenue CAC flyer The Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis presents a Black Atlantic Seminar by Natalie Byfield (St. Johns University) entitled, "Savage Portrayal: How the Media Constructed the Central Park Jogger Story as a Tale of Deviance in Black Male Children." A copy of the paper is available at 88 College Avenue. For further information or to receive a copy of the paper, please contact rcha@rci.rutgers.edu. |
| NOVEMBER 19-22 Thursday-Sunday New Orleans Marriott 555 Canal Street New Orleans, LA 52nd Annual Conference of the African Studies Association entitled, "Africa at a Crossroads" |
| NOVEMBER 30 Monday 1:40pm-3pm Beck Hall 201 LIVINGSTON flyer CAS and the Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures present a film screening in honor of World AIDS Day entitled, "Speaking Out: Women, AIDS, and Hope in Mali" (2002). Public Health undergraduate Judyth Nsababera will speak about her Project Hope for Africa initiative. Special thanks to Professor Ousseina Alidou for incorporating this event into her Islam and African Literature course 01:013:314:01. *Please note that the actual date of World AIDS Day is December 1.* |
| DECEMBER 14 Monday 11am-2:45pm; lunch included Graduate Student Lounge CAC The African Studies Graduate Affiliates will present a semi-formal conference of graduate African scholar panelists to encourage peer review and intellectual exchange. Interested panelists must please submit an abstract of 100-250 words to Stella Capoccia scapocci@rci.rutgers.edu by the 1st of December. Early submissions are encouraged. **You SHOULD expect a reply to your submissions.** |
| JANUARY 30, 2010-JUNE 6, 2011 Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum Voorhees Special Exhibition Galleries CAC The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum presents an exhibition by artist Lalla Essaydi entitled, "Les Femmes de Maroc" comprised of 17 large scale photographs selected from the artist’s most recent series. |
| FEBRUARY 11 Thursday 10:20am-11:40am Liv Classrm. Bldg. 103 LIVINGSTON CAS, the Office of Undergraduate Education, the Department of Geography, and the Office of International Programs present "An African Movie and Dialogue" program that will include film clips from the documentary on the work of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai entitled, "Taking Root: the Vision of Wangari Maathai" (Kenya; 2008), and a lecture by Kamoji Wachiira, who served as the Senior Consultant for the documentary. The lecture is entitled, "The Politics of Declining Resilience: Reducing Environmental Vulnerability in Rural Communities in Kenya." Special thanks to Professor Richard Schroeder for hosting this event during his Geography of Africa course 01:450:338:01. This program participates in the 2009-2010 Global Initiatives theme, "Ecologies in the Balance? Thinking Through the Crisis." |
| February 25 Thursday 6:10pm-7:30pm RCHA Seminar Room 88 College Avenue CAC flyer The Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis presents a Black Atlantic Seminar by Abosede George (Barnard College) entitled, "Penal Reform and the Normalization of the African Child 1930-1940." A copy of the paper is available at 88 College Avenue. For further information or to receive a copy of the paper, please contact rcha@rci.rutgers.edu. |
| FEBRUARY 25-27 Thursday-Saturday Pre-conference Lecture/Reception and Lalla Essaydi Exhibition FEBRUARY 25 Thursday 6:30pm Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum Lower Dodge Gallery 71 Hamilton Street CAC FOR NON-RU ATTENDEES: | parking permit | map that shows lots | Conference FEBRUARY 26-27 Friday-Saturday Program tba RSC Rm. 407 126 College Avenue CAC FOR NON-RU ATTENDEES: You may park without a permit in the College Avenue Parking Deck. Arrive early to secure your space! CAS; AMESALL; the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum; the Office of the Executive Dean, School of Arts and Sciences; the Office of Undergraduate Education; the Office of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs; and the Transliteratures Project present a conference entitled, "Crossroads: Migration, Language, and Literature in Africa." The conference is designed to foster trans-disciplinary understanding of the complex interplay between language, literature and migration, and of the varied patterns of language and literary movement, formation and practice arising from contemporary and historical migration within and to Africa. For more information please contact Ousseina Alidou. |
| MARCH 3 Wednesday 2pm-5pm Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum Lower Dodge Gallery 71 Hamilton Street CAC The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum presents an interdisciplinary symposium which will address some of the issues that Moroccan artist Lalla Essaydi's photographs raise from a variety of perspectives. Essaydi's "Les Femmes de Maroc," comprised of 17 large scale photographs selected from the artist’s most recent series, will be on display at the Zimmerli's Voorhees Special Exhibitions Galleries from January 30, 2010 through June 6, 2011. Donna Gustafson, Liaison for the Mellon Program and Assistant Curator of American Art, will moderate a panel discussion following the presentation of papers by Rutgers faculty. For more information on the symposium please contact Donna Gustafson: dgustafs@rci.rutgers.edu. |
| MARCH 4 Thursday 2:50pm-4:10pm Alexander Library 4th Floor Teleconference Lecture Hall CAC CAS, the African Studies Association, and the Department of History proudly present the Fifth Annual African Studies Association Presidential Lecture at Rutgers with a talk by 2010 ASA President Charles Ambler (Professor of History, University of Texas at El Paso). The title of the talk will be announced. Parking is available to non-Rutgers visitors in the College Avenue Parking Deck, located next to Alexander Library (see map). Special thanks to Professor Barbara Cooper for co-hosting this event during her History of Modern Africa course 01:508:222. |
| MARCH 23 Tuesday 4:30pm-6pm Van Dyck Hall Room 301 16 Seminary Place CAC flyer The Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis presents a Black Atlantic Seminar by Komozi Woodard (Sarah Lawrence College) entitled, "Black Power Studies, the Paradigm Shift, Not a Cultural Poverty: A Golden Age of Black Liberation and African American Renaissance." A copy of the paper is available at 88 College Avenue. For further information or to receive a copy of the paper, please contact rcha@rci.rutgers.edu. |
| APRIL 1 Thursday 6:10pm-7:30pm RCHA Seminar Room 88 College Avenue CAC flyer The Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis presents a Black Atlantic Seminar by Carolyn Brown (Rutgers University) entitled, "Cowboys, Letter Writers, and Dancing Women: Identity and Struggles Over Space, Leisure, and Time in a West African City – Enugu, Nigeria 1914-1955." A copy of the paper is available at 88 College Avenue. For further information or to receive a copy of the paper, please contact rcha@rci.rutgers.edu. |
| APRIL 22 Thursday 6:10pm-7:30pm RCHA Seminar Room 88 College Avenue CAC flyer The Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis presents a Black Atlantic Seminar by Ted Wilson (distinguished poet, writer, and activist) entitled, "A Look Back in Time: Autobiographical Reflection on the Afro-American Youth Culture Conference and the Year 1965." A copy of the paper is available at 88 College Avenue. For further information or to receive a copy of the paper, please contact rcha@rci.rutgers.edu. |
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