Talks This Week
Mon. 03/27- Social Change & Development Working Group, Chesney McOmber, UF: "The Feminization of Rural Space: Exploring the Politics of Male Absence in Kenya and Morocco." 12:45pm in 471 Grinter
Wed-Fri 03/29-03/31- Congo-Kinshasa Meets Gainesville, UF: A gangster film @ the wooly, a comics workshop @ the Harn, and the history of masculinity in Kinshasa (more below)
Fri. 03/31- Baraza, Didier Gondola, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis: "Buffalo Bills in Kinshasa: Westerns, Masculinity, and Violence in the Tropics." 3:30pm in 404 Grinter
Next Week:
Wed. 04/05- Migration Dreams: Africans in China Talks (CAS China Working Group)- see below
Wed. 04/05- Film Showing: "Guangzhou Dream Factory" with Filmmaker Christiane Badgley. 6:00pm, Room TBA.
Thurs. 04/06- NRM in Africa, Thomas Smith, UCLA: "Importance of Preserving Environmental Gradients in a Changing World." 3:30pm in 404 Grinter
Thurs. 04/06- Lecture on North African Islamic Saints, Medicine, and French Colonialism, Ellen Amster, McMaster University: "A Doorway to the Divine: Islamic Bodies and the Sufi Saints as Connecting the Living to the Dead." 5:30pm in Smathers Library 100
Fri. 04/07- Baraza, Noah Saloman, Carleton College: "For Love of the Prophet: The Art of Islamic State-Making in Sudan." 3:30pm in 404 Grinter
Sun. 04/09- Turkish Food Fair, Kanapaha Veterans Memorial Park, Freedom Community Center, All donations sent to Syrian Refugees via 'Mercy without Limits' (US-based non-profit), 12:00-7:00pm
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