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Calendar of Events 2009: Focus on Africa at OSU
Conference: Climate Change and Livelihoods in SubSaharan Africa. May 15th, John Glenn School of Public Policy, Page Hall. Mark Moritz, Anthropology, David Kraybill (AEDE) , Andy Keeler (Glenn School) and guest speakers. Details and registration TBA.
K12 Teachers' Institute: Somali History, Language, and Culture. June 16-20, SWCA/Global Mall. Cosponsored by the Ohio Humanities Council and OSU College of Education. Details and registration TBA .
Autumn Quarter 2008
"The Impact of Agricultural-Consumption Regimes on Women's Autonomy in Kenya" . CAS brown bag series. October 1st. Wairimu (Nimu) Mwangi, PhD Candidate, Rural Sociology.
"In Search of a Post-Racial Society: From Othello to Obama" . November 7th. Dr. Ali Mazrui, University of New York at Binghamton.
"Studying the Cultural Patterning of Second Language and Literacy Development among Somali Children in Columbus" . CAS brown bag series. October 8th. Leslie Moore, Associate Professor, School of Teaching and Learning.
"Research and Training Capacity building of Veterinary Public Health in East Africa". CAS brown bag series. October 22nd. Wondwossen Gebreyes, Associate Professor, Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine.
CAS Reception in appreciation of Africanists on campus. October 23rd, Hale Center.
"Issues of the Nation-State and the Conflict in Darfur " . CAS brown bag series. October 29th. Elsadig Elsheikh, Research Assistant, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity.
"HIV/AIDS in Africa: Global Responses to the Epidemic" . October 30th. Laura Joseph, Center for African Studies. First Year Experience series.
"Western Modernity and 20th Century West African Islamic Reform" . CAS brown bag series. December 3rd. Ousman Kobo, Assistant Professor, History.
Summer Quarter 2008
July 27: Extra Golden band with West African/Indie fusion. Wexner Center Performance Space, 8 p.m. http://www.wexarts.org.
Spring Quarter 2008
April 4: "Great Books Make History: Things Fall Apart at 50". Dr. Adeleke Adeeko, African American and African Studies. Noon - 1:00, 122 Oxley Hall.
April 11: "Kenya: Elegy of a Nation that Never Really Was". Kennedy Waliaula, Comparative Studies. Noon - 1:00, 122 Oxley Hall.
April 16: The Africa Network Spring Tea, hosted by the OSU Health Sciences Center for Global Health. Featured speaker: Ms. Barbara Campbell-Ker, Executive Director of Hospice Witwatersrand, South Africa. 4:00 - 6:00, 115 Biomedical Research Tower, 460 W. 12th Ave. Contact: wright.7@osu.edu
April 18: Snapshot of Somali Studies at OSU. Graduate Student Panel. Noon - 1:00, 122 Oxley Hall.
April 21: "The South African Transition: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: A Personal Experience". Michael Sutcliffe, OSU Alum and ANC member. 3:30 - 5:00, Derby 1039.
April 22: "Health Issues in Somaliland". Dr. Edna Aden, University of Hargeisa. 7:00, Hagerty Hall 180.
April 24: “An Overview of Research Opportunities and Challenges at the Okavango Research Centre , University of Botswana ” Dr. Barbara Ngwenya, Ph.D , Visiting Scholar, Okavango Research Centre. 3:30 pm, 103 Kottman Hall, School of Environment and Natural Resources.
April 24: "Hope the Pitanga Cherries Grow". Angolan filmmaker, poet, writer Ondjaki. Film (62") screening 4:00, at the Wexner Film Theater , followed by Q&A.
April 25: "Overview of Research on Climate Change in Africa". Dr. David Kraybill, Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics. Noon - 1:00, 0140 Jennings Hall.
April 25: “Children Fishing for Survival in the Okavango Delta , Botswana ”. Dr. Barbara Ngwenya, Ph.D , Visiting Scholar, Okavango Research Centre. 3:30 pm 244 Kottman Hall, Environmental Science Graduate Program.
April 25: "Hope the Pitanga Cherries Grow". Angolan filmmaker, poet, writer Ondjaki. Film (62") screening 3:30, Hagerty Hall 255, followed by discussion.
May 1: "Routes of Infection: Exports and HIV Incidence in Sub-Saharan Africa". Emily Oster, Economics, University of Chicago. 3:30 - 5:00 437 Arps Hall.
May 2: "African Freedom in the Post-Abolitionist Thought of E.W. Blyden (1932-1912)". Dr. Kwaku Korang, African American and African Studies, Noon - 1:00, 122 Oxley Hall.
May 2: " From Mandabi to Bamako: Re-Thinking African Cinema in the Context of Third Cinema". Dr. James Genova, History,
3:00 - 4:30,
Jennings Hall Room 0060
May 8: "Voices of African Storytellers: the Jie people of Uganda, the Turkana people of Kenya". Dr. Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler, Western Michigan University, 4:00 - 5:30, Denny 311.
May 9: "Kenya Human Rights Commission Report: Summary of Findings". Valentine Mukuria, College of Education and Human Ecology, School of Educational Policy and Leadership. Noon - 1:00, 122 Oxley Hall.
May 16: "Using Archaeology to Reconsider Urbanism in Atlantic Africa: Town and Country of the Hueda (Whydah) Kingdom, c. 1650-1727. Neil Norman, History. Noon - 1:00, 122 Oxley Hall..
May 20: "Black Gold", film documentary on the inequities of the coffee market, seen through the experience of fair-trader Tadese Meskela. 6:30 pm, Food, Agriculture, and Environmental Science Library; 045 Agriculture Administration building, 2120 Fyffe Rd.
May 20: "Lord of War", film presented by OSU Amnesty International. 6:30 pm, 024 Scott Laboratory. With discussion following on the international arms trade.
May 23: "The Gold Coast Diaspora in the Americas: Ethnogenesis, Resistance, and Culture". Dr. Walter Rucker, African American and African Studies. Noon - 1:00, 122 Oxley Hall.
Winter Quarter 2008
January 9 – March 12: African Livelihoods K12 Institute , AAAS Community Extension Center, Wednesdays 4:30 – 7:30.
January 11: “HIV/AIDS in Malawi ” CAS Brown Bag Talk Series. Dr. Jesse Kwiek, OSUMC. Noon – 1:00, 122 Oxley Hall.
January 18: "Autochthonous Research and Biographical Evidence: Knowledge, Construction, Interdisciplinarity, and Ethnomusicological Research in Africa with Focus on Religious-Ritual Traditions" CAS Brown Bag Talk Series . Dr. Daniel Avorgbedor, AAAS & Music. Noon – 1:00, 122 Oxley Hall.
January 25: “An alternative model of crop-livestock interactions in West Africa ” CAS Brown Bag Talk Series . Dr. Mark Moritz, Anthropology . Noon – 1:00, 122 Oxley Hall.
February 1: “Schooling Bodies to Hard Work”: The South African State 's Policy Discourse and its Moral Constructions of Welfare” . CAS Brown Bag Talk Series . Franco Barchiesi, AAAS. Noon – 1:00, 122 Oxley Hall.
February 8: “Microfinance in Africa : Successes and Challenges” CAS Brown Bag Talk Series. Dr. Richard Meyer, FAES (Emeritus). Noon – 1:00, 122 Oxley Hall
February 8: "Disability in Kenya: A Collaborative Initiative" Roundtable discussion with Philip Armstrong, Nina Berman, Brenda Brueggeman, Marian Lupo and Brian Stone. 12:30, George Wells Knight House, 104 E. 15th Ave.
February 11: “Introduction of the German Law and Legislation in the German Protectorate Cameroon ” Dr. David Simo, University of Yaounde , Cameroon . Faculty Club, 3:30.
February 15: “Using Community-Based Art Education to Address Social Justice: an Evolving Project in Tshwane, South Africa ” . CAS Brown Bag Talk Series. Dr. Vesta Daniel, Art Education. Noon – 1:00, 122 Oxley Hall.
February 20: "Kenya's Political Situation". Kennedy Waliaula, Comparative Studies, will appear on WOSU Open Line with Fred Andrle from 10:30 - 11:00. Also featured will be Joel Barkin, Center for Strategic and International Studies.
February 22: “Migrant Labor in South Africa , Past and Present” CAS Brown Bag Talk Series. Dr. Kevin Cox, Geography .
Noon – 1:00, 122 Oxley Hall.
February 28: University Libraries' ReadAloud Series will feature a celebration of contemporary African literature, read by Dr. Ruthmarie Mitsch, Department of African American and African Studies, and Brenda Goodwin, University Libraries. 3:00 - 4:00, Wexner Center Cafe.
February 29: " Practical Models of Inter-University Collaboration in Graduate Programs in Eastern and Central Africa" Dr. Bernard Bashaasha, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. Third in the CAS lecture series on Higher Education in Africa. Oxley Hall 122, noon - 1:00.
March 5: "Health and International Humanitarian Assistance: Thirty Years of Evolution". Dr. Ronald Waldman of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and USAID. Younkin Success Center, Room 150, 1640 Neil Ave, 3:30 - 5:00.
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