Spring 2005

Here is a listing of events held by Africa House in Spring 2005

Africa House, in conjunction with NYU's FAS History Department, is pleased to present the Spring 2005 African Diaspora Forum History Seminars.

All events, unless otherwise notified, will take place from 5:30-7:30 pm at the Remarque Institute, Room 324 of the King Juan Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South.

Tuesday, January 25th
Ange-Marie Hancock, Department of Sociology, Yale University,
and author of The Politics of Disgust: The Public Identity of the "Welfare Queen."

Wednesday, March 23rd - CORRECTION
Jamie Wilson, Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, New York University
presenting a dissertation chapter entitled "Harlem's Health and the New Deal Era."

Wednesday, April 13th
Brent Edwards, Department of English, Rutgers University,
and author of The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism.

Thursday, February 10th, 2005 (6:00 p.m.)
Room 601
Topic: "Towards an Architecture for the Delivery of International Development Assistance in Ghana"
Joe Amoako-Tuffour (St.Francis Xavier)

Tuesday, April 5th, 2005 (2:00 p.m.)
Room 715
Topic: "The Institutions Debate"
Daron Acemoglu and Ed Glaeser

Thursday, April 28th, 2005 (4:00 - 7:30 p.m.)
Room 601
Topic: "Mini-conference on Microfinance"
Organized by Jonathan Morduch

4:00-5:30: Academic Panel: Microfinance research--what next?
Four economists studying microfinance look at the emerging issues in the academic study of microfinance. The focus is on meshing data from recent field experiments with economic theory.
-- Prof. Jonathan Conning (Hunter)
-- Prof. Rajeev Dehejia (Columbia)
-- Jonathan Zinman (New York Federal Reserve Bank)
-- Moderator: Prof. Jonathan Morduch, NYU

6:00-7:30 Practitioners Panel: Making Microfinance Work In Africa
Three experts on the practice of microfinance discuss the status of microfinance in Africa today. They will focus on emerging trends, problems limiting the development of microfinance in the region, and innovative solutions from the field.
-- Mr. Lawrence Yanovitch, Director of Policy & Technical Assistance, FINCA
-- Ms. Phyllis Wanjiku Kibui, Director of Relationship Management, Women's World Banking
-- Ms. Kiendel Burritt, Senior Technical Advisor, United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)
-- Moderator: Prof. William Easterly, New York University.

Tuesday, May 5th, 2005 (6:00 p.m.)
Room 601
Topic:"The Economics of AIDS Treatment in Developing Countries"
David Canning (Harvard)