SPRING 2010

Date & Event

Series         & 

Location

February 18 “Why Should I Get Involved? Making your KU experience work for you” Jane Irungu, Rueben Perez & Ece Gurler
Co-sponsored  with The Emily Taylor Women’s Resource Center

12:00 – 1:00 pm               

Kansas Union
Centennial Room

February 22** “The Challenge of Building AIDS-Resilient Democratic Societies in Africa”
Kondwani Chirambo  &  Marietjie Oelofsen
Governance and AIDS Program, Idasa, South Africa, Institute for Democracy in Africa

Gender Seminar**
3:30 – 5:00 pm                              

Hall Center
Seminar Room

February 23 "Gender and HIV/AIDS: Global and Local Perspectives”
Olivia Burchett, Educational and Outreach Coordinator, Douglas County Aids ,
Kondwani Chirambo  &  Marietjie Oelofsen
Governance and AIDS Program, Idasa, South Africa, Institute for Democracy in Africa

7:00 – 9:00pm

     Kansas Union
Alderson Auditorium

February 24*  “African NGOs: Challenges and Opportunities”
Kondwani Chirambo  &  Marietjie Oelofsen
Governance and AIDS Program, Idasa, South Africa, Institute for Democracy in Africa
Co- sponsored with  Dept of Political Science

Ujamaa Brownbag
11:30 – 1:00

Kansas Union
Jayhawk Room

March 1”Discovering Kenya: Learn about life in Kenya today with slides, clothing, artifacts and more,” Jane Irungu
Co sponsored with Lawrence Public Library

7:00 pm

Lawrence Public Library

March 4  Seminar with Dr. Adekunle A. Adegoke, Visiting Fulbright Scholar from Virginia State University

"The concept of  ''IWA'' ( Human Character)  among  Yoruba People  of  Southwest Nigeria"
Co sponsored with Dept of Psychology

3:30- 5:00 pm              

Sabatini Multicultural  
Resource Center                                       

March 5 – 6 Literary Festival
Contact: Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka,  Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, KU

Kansas Union
Kansas Room, Parlor ABC, Jayhawk Room

March 8 International Women’s Day Table

11:30 – 1:00 pm

  Kansas Union Lobby

March 11 “Gendering Soccer and Citizenship in the new South Africa”
Cynthia Pelak, Sociology Department, New Mexico State

African Studies Seminar
3:30 – 5:00 pm                                             

Kansas Union
Centennial Room

March 22** “Old Songs of the New Market Square: Senegalese Women in Global Times”
Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, KU

Gender Seminar**
3:30 – 5:00 pm

      Hall Center
        Seminar Room

March 24** “Vitalities: The Gendered Politics of Work, Family, and AIDS in Nigeria”
Kathryn Rhine, Department of Anthropology, KU

Health & Humanities Seminar
3:30 – 5:00 pm

Hall Center
    Seminar Room

March 25” How Do I Get There From Here? Professional Development”
Co-sponsored  with The Emily Taylor Women’s Resource Center

12:00 – 1:00 pm

                                 Kansas Union
Jayhawk Room

March 31* “Voter Information Deficit, Party Identity and Political Perceptions in Kenya”
Patrick Asingo, Political Science Department, KU

Ujamaa Brownbag
11:45 – 1:00 pm               

      Kansas Union              International Room

April 9** “Two Weeks in September, 1960: The Crisis of the Congo and the United Nations”
Karenbeth Zacharias

Peace, War and Global Change Seminar**
3:30 – 5:00 pm

HallCenter
Seminar Room

April 16 – 17 Africana Library Conference
Contact: Shiferaw Assefa, Library, KU
Co-sponsored with KU Libraries

 Kansas Union
The Commons, Spooner Hall

April 21 “Collaborative Reality of Urban Village Program in Zanzibar”
Makame Muhajir, Geography Department, KU

Ujamaa Brownbag
12:30 – 1:45 pm                           

Kansas Union
  Jayhawk

April 29 “Soccer Academies and Soccer Development in Africa”
Gerard Akindes, Center of International Studies, Ohio University

African Studies Seminar
3:30 – 5:00 pm                    

Kansas Union
 Malott Room

June 8-18
“Using the Arts and Cultural Events to Teach about Africa”
Open to students and K-12 teachers

Teacher Summer Institute

*11:45 – noon for socializing and eating; lecture begins at noon
** Restricted to Faculty and Graduate Students