Calendar of Events - Fall 2008

Comprehensive Calendar
African Studies Seminar Series
Ujamaa Brownbag Series

** Ujamaa Brownbags: 11:30-noon for socializing and eating; lecture begins at noon

September 5, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
KASC Welcoming Reception
Food & refreshments!
Bailey Hall basement, Room 10

September 8, 11:30-1:00 p.m.
Jesse B. Semple Brownbag;
Langston Hughes Center Series
“Circus, Shriners, and Fairs, Oh My: An Alternative History of Black Islam and American Orientalism,”
Jacob Dorman, KU
Alcove J, Kansas Union
Sponsored by Langston Hughes Center

September 10, 11:30-1:00 p.m.
"One Path to Africa,"
Ujamaa Brownbag Series;
Geoff Knight, KU Alum
Alcove J, Kansas Union

October 1-5
93 Annual Convention;
Association for the Study of African American Life and History
Birmingham, AL

October 3
The Human Face of Climate Change
"A Sisters of the Planet"
The Truman Forum, Plaza Branch KC Public Library
www.kclibrary.org/event/2008

October 9, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
"Come to Africa and it is here!"
An "Army of Christ:" T. McCants Stewart and his quest to create a "Negro Nationality"
African Studies Seminar Series
Shawn Leigh Alexander, KU
International Room, KS Union
Co-sponsored with Langston Hughes Center

October 13, 11:30-1:00 p.m.
"Barack Obama's Candidacy: America, Race, and the Historical Moment"
Jesse B. Semple Brownbag;
Langston Hughes Center Series
Woodruff, KS Union
Sponsored by Langston Hughes Center

October 15, 7:00 p.m.
"Francois LeRoux, The Ha!Man Innovative Cellist from South Africa"
Performance
Woodruff, KS Union

October 17-18
"Ties That Bind: Uniting Africans"
Mid-America Alliance for African Studies (MAAAS) 2008
St. Louis, MO

October 23, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
"Race, Politics and History:  W.E.B. Du Bois and the Encyclopedia Africana Project."
African Studies Seminar Series
James T. Campbell, Edgar E. Robinson Professor of American History, Stanford University
International Room, KS Union
Co-sponsored with Langston Hughes Center

Revolutions Film Series
October 27, 7 PM
Lumumba (2000),
Woodruff Auditorium  , FREE and open to the public

October 30, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
"The Deeper Meaning of Common Sense: Collective Violence and White Agrarian Elites in the American South and South Africa, 1900-1927."
African Studies Seminar Series
John Higginson, Professor of History, Univeristy of Massachusetts, Amherst
International Room, KS Union
Co-sponsored with Langston Hughes Center

November 6, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
African Studies Seminar Series
Liz MacGonagle & Kim Warren, KU
International Room, KS Union
Co-sponsored with Langston Hughes Center

November 9, 2:00-3:30 p.m.
Soweto Gospel Choir: African Spirit
Lied Center World Series
Sponsored by Lied Center

November 10, 11:30-1:00 p.m.
Deborah Dandridge, Spencer Research Library
Jesse B. Semple Brownbag;
Langston Hughes Center Series
Alcove J, KS Union
Sponsored by Langston Hughes Center

November 13-16
"Knowledge of Africa: The Next Fifty Years"
African Studies Association Annual Meeeting
Chicago, IL

November 17, 10:00-5:00 p.m.
African Diasporas & Development
Conference
Ebenezer Obadare, KU
Ben Page, University College London
Claire Mercer, London School of Economics
Malott Room, KU
Schedule
Event Pictures

November 20, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
“By the Coast of Elmina: Africans & African Americans and the Problem of Slavery,”
African Studies Seminar Series
Randal Jelks, KU
International Room, KS Union
Co-sponsored with Langston Hughes Center

November 24th
REVOLUTION IN FILM SERIES
Daresalam
Woodruff Auditorium 7pm
FREE AND OPEN to the Public