THE AFRICA WORKING GROUP EVENTS

UPCOMING EVENTS

Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Hesburgh Center Auditorium

Filip Reyntjens

Professor of Law and Politics, University of Antwerp

Noted Africanist Filip Reyntjens will discuss his new book, The Great African War: Congo and Regional Geopolitics, 1996–2006 (Cambridge University Press), which analyzes the developments in the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire), Rwanda, Burundi, and Uganda during this violent decade. He takes a non-chronological approach that sheds light on the causes of the war, shows the interrelationships among local, regional, and international actors, and offers a toolkit for understanding Central Africa’s past and future. Cosponsored by the Henkels Interdisciplinary Lecture Grant, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, College of Arts and Letters; Notre Dame International Security Program; and the Ford Family Program in Human Development Studies and Solidarity.

Speaker Filip Reyntjens will be in town Wednesday 11/26 through Wednesday 12/02.

For more information see <http://kroc.nd.edu/newsevents/events/2009/12/01/584

 

PAST EVENTS

Friday, October 2nd 12:00pm, The Notre Dame Room in LaFortune

Notre Dame Students in Africa: Three undergraduates returning from research and service in Uganda, Ghana, and South Africa discuss the rewards and challenges of fieldwork. Refreshments will be served.

Tuesday, April 1st, 12:30 pm, C103 Hesburgh Center
The Kellogg is sponsoring a talk by our own Naunihal Singh; "Seizing power: Exploring the first ever dataset of coup attempts and outcomes from 1945-2005."

Sunday, April 6th and Monday, April 7th
Conference Witnessing Genocide: Truth, Reconciliation, & the Media, includes events related to Darfur and Rwanda. See the following web site for more info: http://kroc.nd.edu/events/08genocide.shtml

Tuesday, April 8th at 12:30pm, C103 Hesburgh Center
The Kellogg is sponsoring a lecture by our own Fr. Robert Dowd: "The Religious Factor in African Politics: Christians, Muslims and Political Culture in Nigeria, Uganda and Senegal,"

Thursday, April 10th at 7pm, 119 O'Shaughnessy
The History Department is hosting a colloquium by visiting professor Neil Roos: ""Education / sex / leisure: ideology, discipline and the construction of race among South African servicemen during the Second World War." (Contact Sheila Nowinski at srudy@nd.edu for a copy of Neil's precirculated paper.)

Friday, April 18th and Saturday, April 19th
The Kellogg is co-sponsoring a conference on Africa in Portuguese, The Portuguese in Africa. See http://kellogg.nd.edu/projects/FLAD/conference.shtml for more info.

Saturday, April 19th, 2-6pm, Hesburgh Library Auditorium
Rwandan Genocide Commemoration, details TBA

Friday, April 25th at 1pm, C102 Hesburgh Center:
The Africa Working Group is sponsoring a talk by Dr. Akintunde Akinade of High Point University: "Global Faith: African Christians in the United States"