UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER
UCONN AFRICA NOTES Vol. 6, No. 25 (April 19, 1999)

UCONN AFRICA NOTES Vol. 6, No. 25 (April 19, 1999)

UCONN AFRICA NOTES Vol. 6, No. 25 (April 19, 1999) ____________________________________________________________________________

April 20-21. AFRICA BUSINESS CONFERENCE 1999. Hosted by the Connecticut Dept. of Economic and Community Development, Travelers Education Center, 200 Constitution Plaza, Hartford. For info call James Nicholas, TEL: 860-270-8061, or see the conference website: www.state.ct.us/ecd/africa'99 ____________________________________________________________________________

UPCOMING EVENTS AT UCONN

April 19. Film. Finzan (Mail, 1990). Monteith 143, free, 6:00 pm.

April 21. Talk. Robert Dewar's talk on Madagascar set for today is CANCELLED and will be rescheduled in the Fall semester.

April 26. Film. Kasarmu Ce (1991). Monteith 143, free, 6:00 pm.

UPCOMING EVENTS REGIONALLY

April 21. Talk. Ben Diogaye Beye (Senegalese Director and Producer). Themes in African Cinema. Harvard Hall, Harvard, 5:30 pm.

April 21. Talk. Nancy Jacobs (Brown U). The Great Bophuthatswana Donkey Massacre: The Politics of Class and Grass. Luce Hall, Yale, 34 Hillhouse, 4:00-6 pm.

April 22. Talk. The Tenth Annual Bradford Morse Distinguished Lecture. Carolyn Brown (Rutgers U). Cowboys, Letterwriters, and Dancing Women: Identity and Struggles over Space, Leisure, and Time in Enugu, Nigeria 1914-1955. ASC. BU, 270 Bay State Road, Boston. 4:00 pm.

April 22. Talk. William Foltz (Yale). Democratization and the African Military. CFIA, Harvard, 104 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge. 4:00 pm

April 22. Talk. Karari Clarke (Berkeley). Diaspora, Transnationalism and Anthropology's Field: The Production of Yoruba Origins and Practices. Dept. of Anthropology, Yale, 158 Whitney Ave., 4:00 pm.

April 23. Talk. Tamara Giles-Vernick (U. Virginia). Cutting the Vines of the Past: Environmental Histories of Loss in the Sangha River Basin. Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale, 77 Prospect, 11 am- 1 pm.

April 26. Talk. William Lindeke (Univ. of Lowell). Namibian Foreign Policy Since Independence. ASC, BU, 270 Bay State Road, Boston. noon-1:30 pm.

April 29. Talk. Robert Bates (Harvard). Instability and Violence in Africa.
CFIA, Harvard, Coolidge Hall, 1737 Cambridge St., 4:00 pm.

May 3. Talk. Elliot Fratkin (BU). When Nomads Settle: Social and Health Consequences of Sedentarization among Rendille Pastoralists of Northern Kenya. ASC, BU, 270 Bay State Rd., noon-1:30 pm. ____________________________________________________________________________

CONFERENCE AND CALL FOR PAPERS. 30th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, July 25, 1999, at the Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The theme is Comparative Africana Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. For info contact: Professor Eyamba Bokamba, Dept. of Linguistics, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801. E-mail: bokamba@uiuc.edu

STUDY ABROAD. International Summer Program, Nairobi, Kenya. Kenyatta Univ. announces a unique five-week study program for summer 1999. For info: Prof. Olive Mugenda, Director of International Linkages, Kenyatta Univ., PO Box 43844, Nairobi, Kenya.

ON-LINE NEWSLETTER. Area Media Services announces Eye On Africa intended to provide timely critical analysis of political and economic development trends in sub-Saharan Africa. Website: www.eyeonafrica.com

CONFERENCE. Agroindustrialization, Globalization, and International Development, August 6-7, 1999, in Nashville, TN, sponsored by the American Association of Agricultural Economics. For info: www.cals.cornell.edu/dept/arme/staff/cbb2/preconf.html

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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 11:15:35 -0400 From: Larry Bowman <BOWMAN@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU> Subject: UCONN AFRICA NOTES

Editor: Ali B. Ali-Dinar

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