August
Dr. Howard's summer work in Ghana and Nigeria
July
Dr. Edna Wangui and Dr. Tom Smucker's Field Research
(Department of Geography)
Story from Ahfad University in Khartoum Sudan
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| Dr. Mohamud Bhadmus Wumi, Associate Professor Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria. Dr. Bhadmus is a visiting associate professor of theatre and drama from Bayero University, Kano-Nigeria. His interests include reading established dramatists and plays against the grain and finding new meanigs and interpretations for established theatre and drama traditions. Dr. Bhadmus will be teaching a course titled "Studies in African Drama and Theatre" during the 1st session of this summer. This course will offer students an overview of origin, growth and developments of African Drama and Theatre using concepts such as mimesis, ritual, substitution and theatrical antecedents from across the continents as illustrations and pivots of the discussion. This, as the first module of the course, will serve as the introductory and background lecture for the course. |
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| The role and impact of religions on African Drama and Theatre shall be the focus of discussion in the second module. Trends and patterns in African Drama and Theatre will be examined, preparatory to discussions of selected African plays and African playwrights in subsequent modules for the course Theatre is specifically added to transcend the tradition of discussing African drama as an exclusive academic practice as opposed to it being a more vibrant mode of representation, pedagogy and recreation, thriving on the streets, marketplaces, beer parlour, churches, mosques, palaces and as films, home videos and radio drama. I intend to do a teaching of African Drama and Theatre against the grain of the established canons and tradition. |
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June
The African Studies Graduation Slideshiow
May
International Studies Forum
Ambassador Zachary Muburi-Muita, Kenyan Ambassador to the UN will present "THE KENYAN CRISIS: CHALLENGES OF NATION-STATE CONSOLIDATION IN AFRICA
Africa Live: The Crisis in Darfur
A video conference from Sudan with Dr. Albaquir A. Mukhar, director of Al-Khatim Adlan Centre for Enlightenment and Human Development (KACE).
Date/Time: Thu, May 15, 10am – 12pm
Location: Yamada House 009
"Progressive Islam in Africa and Southeast Asia: a Media Project to Honor the Life of Mahmoud Mohamed Taha, 1909-2009."
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Our first speaker in a lecture series that is part of the project will be Professor Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im, Candler Professor of Law at the Emory University School of Law with a talk entitled, "Imagining and Realizing Progressive Islam: A framework and call to action." An-Na’im is a leading student of Taha’s teachings and is the author of the recently published, "Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari’a." |
Dr. Abdullahi An-Na’im exemplifies this aspect of Taha’s teaching and has devoted his work in legal studies to seeking a place for Islam that fits a modern world’s needs for equality, acceptance, and respect for communal differences. He has authored, edited, and co-authored many books and articles on these topics, converging on the issue of human rights in Islam, and we are delighted to welcome him back to this campus. You can learn more about Dr. An-Na’im here:
http://people.law.emory.edu/~aannaim/
Date/Time: Tuesday, 27 May 2008, 7:00-9:00
Location: Bentley Hall 140
Click here to view the lecture's Webcast ----------------------- Slideshow
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