Africa @ KU & Beyond
Spring 2019 Events:
Thursday, January 31
FLAS Info Session
Receive tuition support and a stipend for African language study!
Applications for Summer 2019 and Academic Year 2019-20 fellowships are due February 8, 2019
Reference letters are due February 18, 2018.
Find out more and ask questions at this final info session.
English Room, Kansas Union
4:00-5:30 pm
Wednesday, February 13
Somali Open House
Ecumenical Campus Ministries, ECM, 1204 Oread Ave.
An afternoon of food, dance, and information about Somali culture and language
Refreshments served
Thursday, February 21
Migration in the Heartland
Conference Hall, Hall Center for the Humanities
3:00 - 5:00 pm
A film screening of Strangers in Town followed by a discussion with filmmaker Steve Lerner and Amy Longa of the International Refugee Commission. Longa is featured in this short documentary about how global migration transformed Garden City, Kansas. She will talk about her work with migrants in Kansas.
Friday, February 22
Bridging Health Divides in East Africa
Conference Hall, Hall Center for the Humanities
1:00 - 2:30 pm
An interdisciplinary panel featuring global medical humanities research from KU's first-ever Humanities Lab, ColLAB
Thursday, March 7
Religion and Power in Africa: A Conversation with Ebenezer Obadare
English Room- Kansas Union | 3:00 – 5:00 pm
A conversation with Ebenezer Obadare (Sociology) about his book Pentecostal Republic: Religion and the Struggle for State Power in Nigeria. Reception to follow
Monday, March 18
Visiting Artist Doreen Garner
Lecture, Marvin Hall Forum, 216 | 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Demonstration, Chalmers Hall, 315 | 5:300 – 7:00 pm
Doreen Garner creates corporeal sculptures to explore the frequently suppressed and traumatic medical histories of the Black body. Her sculptures are foten incorporated in performances and video works.
Thursday, April 4 and Friday April 5
Beyond Discourse: Critical and Empirical Approaches to Human Trafficking
Hall Center for the Humanities
This conference will feature panels and presentations by KU faculty and graduate students as well as human trafficking scholars from around the country.
Panelists will discuss critical research methods on human trafficking and related social problems.
Monday April 8
4th Annual KU African Language Festival
Ballroom, Kansas Union
4:00 - 6:00 pm
Celebrate African languages at KU with performances in Arabic, Kiswahili, and Wolof from our entertaining students. Activities include Henna body art, a fashion booth, games, raffle draw, and Arabic calligraphy
Refreshments served
Friday, April 12
9th Annual Graduate Research Workshop
318 Bailey Hall
9:30 am - 3:00 pm
A showcase of junio scholars working on research about Africa and its diaspora with many examining themes of power, memory, and violence
Abstracts due to KASC by March 25, 2019
Lunch and snacks provided
Thursday, April 25
Attaya Session Open House
Bailey 318
4:00 - 6:00 pm
Join our Wolof language table to learn how to make Senegalese tea called Attaya. Meet Dr. Omar Ka, a specialist in African language instruction.
No knowledge of Wolof required.
Tea and snacks provided.
Wednesday, May 8
Ujamaa Food for Thought: "From Ghandi and Mandela to Democracy in South Africa"
Bailey 318
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Visiting scholar Tony King will discuss the revitalization of a prison in Johannesburg that housed both Mahatma Ghandi and Nelson Mandela. The complex is now a center of public discourse on human rights and South Africa's authoritarian past that houses the Constitutional Court, the highest court in the country.
Free light lunch served.
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Fall 2018 Events:
December 5, 2018
UJAMAA FOOD FOR THOUGHT
"Materiality of Care"
Rethinking True Love from an
African Epistemic Foundation
Dr. Annabella Osei-Tutu
Bailey Hall 318 | 12:00 - 1:00 pm
November 6, 2018
CONVERSATION & FILM WITH MAMADOU DIA
Kansas Room, KU Union | 7:00 pm
November 1-2, 2018
AFRICAN & ARABIC FOOD & FILM FESTIVAL
Nov 1: Food, Film & Discussion
Hall Center Conference Hall | 5:00 - 8:00 pm
Nov 2: Arabic Film Screening
Woodruff Auditorium | 4:00 - 7:00 pm
October 25, 2018
HUMANITIES LECTURE SERIES
"Body Movements: Positioning Sundanese Women in an Age of Empire"
Dr. Marie Grace Brown
KU Department of History
Lied Center Pavillion | 7:30 pm
October 10, 2018
UJAMAA FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Study in Africa Series II
Dr. Teruna Siahaan
KU School of Pharmacy
Bailey Hall 318 | 12:00 - 1:00 pm
September 26, 2018
UJAMAA FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Study in Africa Series I
Dr. Lisa Ottinger, Mark Best &
KU School of Business Students
Bailey Hall 318 | 12:00 - 1:00 pm
September 6, 2018
KASC SOCIAL GATHERING
McLain's Market 1420 Crescent Rd | 4:00 - 5:30 pm
