Recent & Upcoming Events Calendar
August
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September
| Date | Event | Location |
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Wednesday, September 21 3:30-5:00 p.m.
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African Studies Colloquium:
"Re-imagining a Coloured Past: Multiracialism, Tidealectics, and (Dis)location in South African History"
Tshepo Chéry |
Brooks Hall Conference Room (second floor) |
Thursday, September 22 7:00 p.m. |
"Currents in Conversation"
Forum on "The Politics of the Debt Ceiling Crisis " |
125 Minor Hall |
October
| Date | Event | Location |
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Tuesday, October 4 |
Forum on "Revolution 67"
Mary Lou Bongiorno |
125 Minor Hall |
| Wednesday, October 5 3:30 p.m. |
Meet the Woodson Fellows |
Kaleidoscope Room, Newcomb Hall |
Wednesday, October 19 3:30-5:00 p.m. |
African Studies Colloquium:
"No Bad Bush Bo De Fo Trowe Way Bad Pikin:'Rewriting the Child Soldier and Reclaiming the Gola Forest in Delia Jarrett-Macauley's Moses, Citizen and Me"
Zétoile Imma |
Brooks Hall Conference Room (second floor) |
Monday, October 24 6:30 p.m. |
"Twiga Stars: Tanzania's Soccer Sisters"
Screening will be followed by a conversation with documentary filmmaker:
Nisha Ligon |
125 Minor Hall |
Tuesday, October 25 6:30-7:30 |
Woodson Graduate Planning Workshop
Coordinator of Admissions for the Institute for Recruitment of Teachers (IRT) at Phillips Academy
Stanley C. Trent Associate Professor at the Curry School of Education and Monique Cueto-Potts |
341 Nau Hall |
Friday, October 28 3:30 p.m. |
"Chaining: Theorizing African American Representations of Person and Past"
(Co-Sponsored with the Department of English) Professor Thadious Davis, University of Pennsylvania |
English Department Faculty Lounge Bryan Hall |
November
| Date | Event | Location |
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Sunday, November 13 7:00 p.m. |
The Saartjie Project 1 Performance--Free Admission
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Old Cabell Hall Auditorium |
Wednesday, November 30 3:30-5:00 p.m. |
African Studies Colloquium:
“Interrogating ‘Truth’: Rape narratives, Zoë Wicomb’s David’s Story, and South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission"
Barbara Boswell |
Brooks Hall Conference Room (second floor) |
February
| Date | Event | Location |
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6:00-7:00 p.m. |
Institute for the Recruitment of Teachers (IRT) Information Session |
TBA
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Wednesday, February 22 3:30-5:00 p.m. |
"China Moves in Africa"
David Shinn |
227 Rouss Hall |
Friday, February 24 3:30 |
"Talk About Books" Those Who Labor for My Happiness Lucia Stanton
Word, Like Fire: Maria Stewart, The Bible and the Rights of African Americans Valerie Cooper |
403 Rouss Hall |
March
| Date | Event | Location |
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Thursday, March 15 3:30 p.m.
Reception to follow Minor Hall Lobby |
"Is Public School 'Choice' Good for the Black Community? "
Mary Pattillo
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403 Rouss Hall |
Wednesday, March 21 3:30-5:00 p.m. |
African Studies Colloquium:
"The Rise and Fall of the real “King Kong”: A History of a Zulu heavyweight and the Place of Boxing in 1950s South Africa"
Tyler Fleming |
Brooks Hall Conference Room (second floor) |
Wednesday, March 28 3:30-5:00 p.m. |
African Studies Colloquium
"Look East Learn Chinese and then...? The Case of Kenyan Mandarin Learners at the University of Niarobi Confucius Institute"
Anita C. Wheeler |
Brooks Hall Conference Room (second floor) |
April
| Date | Event | Location |
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Wednesday, April 18 3:30-5:00 p.m. |
African Studies Colloquium:
"São Tomé: History and Life in an African Island Nation"
Jared Staller |
Brooks Hall Coference Room (second floor) |
Thursday, April 26 4:00
Reception to follow in Minor Hall Lobby |
"The Language of Race: The Dynamics between at State, Church and Civil Society in the Process of Racialization"
Cécile Vidal |
258 Rouss Hall |
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