Announcements:
Ali A. Mazrui: Professor & Director, Institute of Global Cultural Studies, Binghamon University, New York, Senior Scholar, Africana Studies & Research Center, Cornell University. The title of his lecture is: "The Brain Drain & The Dual Diaspora: Between Post-Enslavement & Postcoloniality," Wednesday, November 28, 2007, 4:30pm, at the Africana Studies and Reseach Center, Multipurpose room.
Past Lectures/Programs:
N'Dri Assié-Lumumba Professor, Africana Studies & Research Center, Cornell University. Will lecture on her two new books, Higher Education in Africa: Crises, Reforms and Transformation AND Higher Education in Africa: Reconceptualizing Gender-Based Human Capabilities and Upgrading Human Rights to Knowledge. Tuesday, November 6, 2007, 4:30pm, at the Africana Studies and Reseach Center, Multipurpose room.
Robert Moses: Algebra Project Founder and Rhodes Class of '56. The title of his lecture is: "Quailty of Public School Education as a Constitutional Right: My Story About Myself and Mississippe." Wednesday, October 31, 7pm, at the Africana Studies & Research Center, Multipurpose room. For more information on Quality Education as a Civil Right, visit, http://www.qecr.org/.
Salah M. Hassan: Director and Professor of the Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University, will present a free public lecture on the crisis in the Sudan. The title of his lecture is: "Naming the Conflict: Darfur and the Crisis of Governance in the Sudan." Tuesday, October 23, 2007, 4:30pm, at the Africana Studies and Reseach Center, Multipurpose room.
Angela Y. Davis to visit Cornell: Angela Y. Davis, noted scholar, political activist and Professor of History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will visit Cornell's campus on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 and give a free public lecture titled, "The Prison: A Sign of U.S. Democracy?" The lecture will take place at Sage Chapel (behind Day Hall), at 7:00pm. This event is co-sponsored by: The Africana Studies & Research Center, The Society for the Humanities, The Carl Becker House, United Religious Works, COSEP, Ujamaa Residential College, and the Office of the Vice Provost for Diversity and Faculty Development.
New Student Reading Project: This year marks the seventh year of Cornell's New Student Reading Project. This year's incoming undergraduate class will read The Pickup, a novel published in 2001, by South African Nobel Laurate, Nadine Gordimer. http://www.reading.cornell.edu/
Check back on this page to see the events at Africana throughout the year.
For direct information about events sponsor by ASRC visit: http://www.asrc.cornell.edu/events.html
