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Speaker Series

 
Spring 2006
February 15  

Salih Booker, Executive Director--- Africa Action
Ending Global Apartheid: Africa and the United States
12-1:30pm

 
February 21  

Audrey McCluskey, IU Bloomington
The Images of African American Women in the Media
12 -1:30pm joint with the IUPUI Department of African and Afro-American Studies

 
March 23  

Marcos Rangel, University of Chicago
Out of West Africa: Evidence on the Efficient Allocation of Resources Within Farm Households
CA 438 4-5:30pm, joint with the IUPUI Department of Economics

 
April 3

 

 

Abdul Rashied Omar, University of Notre Dame
Tolerance, Civil Society and Renaissance in Post-Apartheid South Africa.
12-1:30pm

 
April 6 Babacar Fall
Education and HIV/AIDs in Africa: A window of hope
Fall 2005
October 6   Kaivan Munshi Brown University (co-sponsor—Dept of Economics)
CA 438 4-5:30pm
New Roles for Marriage in Urban Africa
 
October 12   Patterson Ogon
Chairman and founder of the Ijaw Council for Human Rights
CA 438 12 noon
The Real Price of Oil: Human Rights Violations in the Niger Delta
 
October 20   David Evans RAND (co-sponsor—Dept of Economics)
CA 438 4-5:30pm
Orphans and Schooling in Africa
 
October 24   Cecilia Green, University of Pittsburgh
Title:
CA 438 12-1:30pm
 
Early November     Simi Afonja, Professor and Former Director, Center for Gender and Social Policy Studies at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife
Women and Democracy in Africa
 
November 8  

Paul Rusesabagina, President of the Hotel Rwanda Foundation, will share experiences of his own survival and saving more than 1200 refugees in the Rwandan genocide of the mid-1990s.
LE 101 12:00-1:00pm (Pictures).

 
Spring 2005
February 2   Mamadou Diouf, Professor of History and Director of the African Studies Program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Literary Imagination and Vernacular Cosmopolitanism: The Senegalese Murid Trade Diaspora
 
March 1   Mrs. Joyce Mpanga, one of the first women in Uganda to receive a college education, recently retired after serving in the parliament of Uganda. She continues to travel internationally and raise awareness on women’s issues.
Education and Gender Socio-Political Changes in Uganda
 
April  11   Heike Raphael-Hernandez
Primaritizing' African and African American Knowledge for Europe: The Black "Ghetto" as Theory for East Germany
 
Fall 2004
October 6   Phillip Mazorodze a Zimbabwean national and the founder and chairman of Wish Kids International
Enhancing the Welfare of HIV/AIDS Orphans in Rural Zimbabwe”
 
October 15 James Habyarimana, Georgetown University
Cavanaugh Hall 508
The relationship between school inputs and educational outcomes is critical for educational policy.
Spring 2004
February 24   Dr. Amos Sawyer, former President of Liberia, Associate Director and Research Scholar at the Workshop in Political Theory
and Policy Analysis, a policy research center, at Indiana University. Sawyer served as chairman of Liberia's constitution drafting commission in early 1980s and headed the first interim
government of Liberia during the outbreak of violent conflict in early 1990s.
“The African-African American Connection:
Challenges and Opportunities”
 
March 31   John Stanfield, Professor in the Department of African American & African Diaspora Studies at IU Bloomington and Director of the Institute for Equality Studies.
CA 537 12:00 Noon
Living Race Through State Segregation and Desegregation in Atlanta, Georgia and Johannesburg, South Africa
 
April 1 Dr Kathleen Beegle, Research economist at the World Bank.
CA 438
Recent Data Collection and Research Project in Tanzania
Fall 2003
October 15 Winstone Zulu
Cavanaugh Hall 438
The Invisible Epidemic: Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS
Spring 2003
April 10  

"Is Africa Doomed? A debate on the political, economic and social issues facing the continent and its people."
Moderator: Oumar Touré (President, African Student Association)
Presenters: Shola Ajiboyee (Chief executive officer of African Community International, Inc.), Didier Gondola, Aymerou M’Baye, Gina Sánchez-Gibau, Una Okonkwo Osili, Jim Wallihan.
UC Lower Level

 
April 16  

Dr. Zee Edgell, Professor of English, Kent State University
Lilly Auditorium
The African Diaspora: Women and Slavery in Belize

 
Fall 2002
September 23  

Dr. Patrick Aeberhard (Doctors without Borders), Mohammed Abdulai Ayariga, Raymond Akonburo Atuguba and Dominic Ayine (Ghanaian Human Rights Lawyers and Professors, University of Ghana Faculty of Law)
Program in International Human Rights Law Presentation
New Trends in Human Rights Activism in Ghana – Relating the Global and the Local Organized by the IUPUI Law School and co-sponsored by the AAASC.

 
October 3 Dr Babacar Fall, Associate Professor, Ecole Normale Superieure, University Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal
Cavanaugh Hall 438
Oral History in Senegal: Rethinking Political and Social Life
November 13 Dr Gilbert Doho, Assoc Professor of Theater, Cinema and Francophone Literature, University of Yaounde1, Yaounde, Cameroon
Cavanaugh Hall 438
Theater in Times of Social Upheaval.
Spring 2002
March 6  

Dr. Alan Cambeira, Professor of Caribbean Studies and Latin American Culture
Afro-Caribbean Women and Their World of Work: A Legacy of Exploitation.

 
Fall 2001
Spring 2001

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