March 28-29, 2012
Program Flyer
Schedule at a Glance
Emailed Articles, Readings, and Study Guide
Session Descriptions
Hotel Information
Directions to the Friday Center
2012 Senegal Study Visit
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*Registration is $175 for one seminar and $325 for both.
*A team of 4+ attending the SAME seminar is $150 per person. (see flyer)
**ONLINE REGISTRATION IS CLOSED! (you may still register at the seminar)**
-Featured Speakers-
Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja. George Nzongola-Ntalaja is Professor in the Department of African and Afro-American Studies at UNC at Chapel Hill. He holds a B.A. from Davidson College, an M.A. from the University of Kentucky, and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His major area of research interest is the political history of Africa since the struggle for independence, and he has written an award-winning book in this regard entitled The Congo From Leopold to Kabila: A People’s History. Of his most recent publications, he considers “Challenges to State Building in Africa,” published by African Identities, a British academic journal, to be the most important.
Lisa Lindsay. Lisa Lindsay’s research centers on the social history of West Africa, particularly Nigeria, and on links between Africa and other parts of the world. Although over time her primary focus has moved from gender to slavery, in all of her work she endeavors to understand large-scale processes through human-scale experiences, and to attend to African particularities as well as points of larger comparison and connection. She is currently at work on the contextualized biography of a South Carolina freedman who in the 1850s migrated to modern-day Nigeria, making trans-Atlantic connections that his descendants and their American relatives maintain to this day.
Kathryn Mathers. Kathryn Mathers is a visiting scholar in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. Her published work examines reality television, adventure travel, and the tensions between tourism, development, and migration in South Africa. Her book “Travel, Humanitarianism, and Becoming American in Africa” uses observations of American travelers to southern Africa to ask: why is Africa so important to Americans? These travel stories show how encounters with Africans lead to a problematic desire to save Africa. This book draws fascinating new conclusions about the connections and disconnections on which contemporary American identity is formed.
Schedule At-A-Glance*
| Wednesday, March 28 |
Thursday, March 29 | ||
| 1:00 | Check In and Registration | 8:00 | Continental Breakfast at the Friday Center |
| 1:30 1:45 |
Welcome Africa: Greatest Challenges and Promises Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja Department of African and Afro-American Studies and the African Studies Center UNC at Chapel Hill |
8:30 | Poverty and Community in a Kenyan Slum: A Multimedia Perspective Leann Bankoski Carolina for Kibera Beth-Ann Kutchma
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| 2:45 | Break | 9:45 | Concurrent Sessions I: Understanding Africa |
| 3:00 | The Historical Roots of Modern Africa Lisa Lindsay Department of History UNC at Chapel Hill |
1. Dubunking Myths of Urban Poverty: An Exploration of Community Voice in the Kibera Slum of Kenya Leann Bankoski, Carolina for Kibera Beth-Ann Kutchma, Chasing the Mad Lion Productions and Center for Global Initiatives |
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| 4:00 | Making Good Americans in Africa: Travel, Celebrity, and the Costs of Humanitarianism Kathryn Mathers Department of Cultural Anthropology Duke University |
2. Contemporary Senegal Alassane Fall UNC Department of African and Afro-American Studies |
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| 5:15 | Reception for Participants and Faculty Center for School Leadership Development |
3. North Africa’s Challenges for Democracy: A Look at Egypt, a Year after 1/11 Mohamed Abou El Seoud UNC University Libraries |
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| 6:30 | Preparing for Senegal: Meet, Greet, and Senegalese Dinner for Study Visit Participants FedEx Global Education Center, Fourth Floor |
4. Understanding the HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Southern Africa: A Historical Approach Christopher Lee UNC Department of History |
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| 5. I am ‘Coloured’ Betina Coetzee Mallard Creek Elementary, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools |
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| 10:45 | Break | ||
| 11:00 | Concurrent Sessions II: Understanding Africa | ||
| 1. Women in Africa: Past, Present, and Future: A Case Study of the Family in Senegal Marame Gueye Department of English, East Carolina University |
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| 2. One River, Many Streams: Religion in Africa Today Donato Fhunsu UNC Department of African and Afro-American Studies |
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| 3. China in Africa: Development Partner or Neo-Imperialist Power? Hamady Mbaye Curriculum in International Studies, UNC at Chapel Hill Alumnus |
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| 4. Teaching about Human Rights in Africa: What do we do with Kony 2012? Barbara Anderson UNC African Studies Center |
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| 12:00 |
Lunch in Trillium Dining Room (Senegal Study Visit participants will meet for orientation and lunch) |
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| 1:15 | Concurrent Sessions III: Teaching Africa | ||
| Grades K-5 | |||
| 1. Adapting Contemporary Africa to Elementary Students Peter Burke Independent Consultant and Adult Educator |
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| Grades 6-8 | |||
| 2. Looking at Africa–Peeling Away Centuries of Misconceptions and Stereotypes Penny Maguire World View |
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| Grades K-12 | |||
| 3. African Studies Center K-12 Outreach Resources Amelia Defosset UNC African Studies Center 4. Evaluating, Selecting, and Using K-12 Materials on Africa
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| Grades K-12 and Community College | |||
| 5. Resources for Teaching North Africa and the Middle East Mohamed Abou El Seoud, UNC University Libraries Regina Higgins, Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies |
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| 2:15 | Break | ||
| 2:30 | Diverse Experiences: Education in Africa Katharine Robinson, World View (moderator) Anita Fourie, Gray’s Creek Elementary, Cumberland County Schools Kokou Nayo, Chapel Hill Seun Bello Olamosu, International House, Duke University Addonise Rennie Paye, Raleigh Judy Piercy, Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools Chifundo Zimba, School of Nursing, UNC at Chapel Hill |
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| 3:45 | Closing Remarks Robert Phay World View, UNC at Chapel Hill |
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| 4:00 | Adjournment | ||
*Program is subject to change. Click here for a printable PDF version of the program.
