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SPRING 2006 EVENTS Here is a listing of events held by Africa House in Spring 2006 GENERAL Africa House is hosting multiple events this semester, including Africana Social Science Seminars and Films (see below). * Thursday-Friday, February 9-10, 2006 Jointly hosted by Center for Transcultural Studies, Chicago; Institute
for African-American Affairs and Africa House, New York University; and
CODESRIA African Humanities Institute Programme, University of Ghana-Legon.
Speakers include Rajeev Bhargava, Craig Calhoun, Manthia Diawara, Dilip
Gaonkarm, Nilufer Gole, * Tuesday, February 14, 2006 (6:00-8:00 p.m.) * Thursday, February 16, 2006 (6:00 p.m.) * Thursday, February 23, 2006 (7:00 - 9:00 p.m.) Africa House is co-sponsoring a reading by new African writers whose work is being published in a special issue of Granta magazine. Other sponsors include the Africana Studies program. * Tuesday, March 21, 2006 (4:30 p.m.) * Thursday, April 6, 2006 (6:30 - 8:00 p.m.) * Tuesday, April 18th, 2006 (4:00 - 5:30 p.m.) Panel Participants: * Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer (also
former Ambassador to South Africa) * Thursday, April 20, 2006 (6:00 - 8:30 p.m.) This colloquium plans to address the underlying factors that have contributed to the escalating conflicts in the Sudan. It will historicize the conflict by addressing the roles of the British and the Egyptians in the creation of this North/South dichotomy. It will focus on the ways in which the South has been used as a source of manpower through slavery and the garnering of its material resources from agricultural products to oil. It will address the ways in which the conflicts affect different ethnic groups such as the Dinka, the Shiluk, and the Nuba. It will also focus on the human rights abuses in Darfur and the local and international responses to what has been described as the worst humanitarian crisis. * Prof. Eve M. Troutt Powell, Radcliffe Institute Fellow; * Monday, April 24, 2006 (7:45 p.m.) http://www.povertyactionlab.com/news/ Abhijit%20Film%20Announcement.php * May 1, 2006 (6:00 - 8:00 p.m.) Dr. Roberta Bonetti Dr. Roberta Bonetti works and conducts research in the field of museum anthropology, in particular that of Africa. She has a Ph.D. degree in “Religious Studies: Social Sciences and Historical Studies of Religions” and in “Anthropologie sociale, ethnographie et etnologie”, a joint program of the University of Bologna and l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales of Paris. Her dissertation entitled Oggetti funerari dell’Africa contemporanea. Modalità di produzione, uso e rappresentazione nei musei etnografici, discusses contemporary art of South Ghana and its circulation and representation in the western world.From 1996-2002, as the director of the African Museum of Verona, she conceived and curated a series of exhibitions, educational courses, and catalogues. During that same time, she has worked in collaboration to realize exhibitions centered on specific aspects of African culture, in museums across Italy. She has conducted research in several African and Italian museums, run university seminars on the topic of museum anthropology and anthropology of art. * May 17-21, 2006 * May 21-27, 2006 This is an annual film festival dedicated to the documentation of Pan-African images. The event will bring together filmmakers, scholars and students to one of Africa’s historical Pan-African cities. Both events are co-sponsored by Africa House and NYU’s Institute for African-American Affairs, among others. * AFRICA HOUSE FILM SERIES, SPRING 2006 Africa House is again working with frontière afrique to present a series of exciting African films this Spring. In addition, the showings will be in a new and better space this semester - the King Juan Carlos Center Screening Room. After the films, you are invited to join in an open discussion, led by frontière afrique. Tuesday, January 31, 2006 (6:30 p.m.) Tuesday, March 14, 2006 (6:30 p.m.) Tuesday, March 28, 2006 (6:30 p.m.) Tuesday, April 11, 2006 (6:30 p.m.) Monday, April 17, 2006 (6:30 p.m.) * AFRICANA SEMINARS, SPRING 2006 NOTE: There is a new location for the Africana Seminars this semester - 269 Mercer is being renovated, so we are using 110 Fifth Ave, Room 445, Economics Department. The goal of the seminar series is to bring together researchers here at New York University and the immediate vicinity, who have some interest in Africa. We like to describe it with the Zulu term "Indaba" - a gathering of chiefs for a conversation on matters of state. All seminars will be held at New York University at 110 Fifth Ave, Room 445, unless otherwise indicated. The talks will begin at approximately 6.00pm (unless otherwise stated) and run between an hour and an hour and a half. Just before the talk, at about 5.30pm, there will be an informal "wine and cheese" with the speaker of the day to which you are cordially invited. Thursday, March 2, 2006 (6:00 p.m.) Thursday, April 13, 2006 (6:30 p.m.) Wednesday, April 19, 2006 (3:30 p.m.) |
