For additional information on any of the events listed below, please contact the African Studies Program main desk by email or at 608.262.2380 or Toni Pressley-Sanon, Outreach Director, by email or at 608.262.4461.
Friday, October 12, 2007
Meet the Authors: A Conversation with Zakes Mda and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
An evening of informal discussion and audience Q&A
Moderated by UW professors Rob Nixon and Tejumola Olaniyan,
Promenade Hall, Overture Center, 201 State St., Madison
"Voices from a Changing Africa" (Wisconsin Book Festival reading): 5:00-7:00 pm
Meet the Authors discussion: 7:00-8:00 pm
Reception to follow in Promenade Terrace
Free and open to the public
Sponsored by the UW African Studies Program, Department of English, and Department of African Languages and Literature
For more information on this event, please contact Heather DuBois Bourenane, hldubois@wisc.edu. For the complete Wisconsin Book Festival schedule, visit: www.wisconsinbookfestival.org.
Sandwich Seminar Schedule
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Wednesday, October 3: Mateugue Diack, Maitre Assistant, Soil and Water Management, UniversitéGaston Berger de St. Louis, Senegal, An Experimental and Production Farm in an African University: Senegal’s Université Gaston Berger de Saint Louis and the Challenge of Agricultural Sustainability.
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Wednesday, October 10: Beth Dougherty, Associate Professor, Political Science, Beloit College, The Charles Taylor Saga: Can We Finally Get Transitional Justice Right?
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Monday, October 15: Andre Kapanga, Special Advisor to President Joseph Kabila; 206 Ingraham- noon, Former Democratic Republic of the Congo ambassador to UN; and Azarius Ruberwa, Former Vice President, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Building a Durable Peace in Congo
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Wednesday, October 17: No Sandwich Seminar. African Studies Association Meeting, New York.
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Wednesday, October 24: Christian Jennings, Assistant Professor, History, UW- Stevens Point, Science at Sea in the Twilight of Empire: The East African Marine Fisheries Research Organization
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Wednesday, October 31: Leela Hazzah, Jordan Prize Winner 2007. Ph.D. student, Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies: Land Resources, Lions and Warriors: Social Factors Underlying Declining African Lion Populations (Panthera leo) in Kenyan Maasailand
Ongoing Events
Afro-Cuba At the Crossroads: Arts, Culture, History
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