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"Eye on Africa" Speakers for Spring 2013

Time: 12:00 - 1:30 PM

Location: Room 201 International Center (URL: www.africa.msu.edu)

427 N Shaw Lane, East Lansing, MI 48824
Phone: 517-353-1700
Date Speaker Affiliation Topic
1/17 Brent Simpson Faculty (Coll of Ag. & Nat. Resources, MSU) “African Agriculture under the New Normal of Climate Change”
1/24 Eve Nabulya UMAPS Scholar - U of M “Under the Patronage of Nature: Conceptions of the Natural Environment in the Ganda Myth”
1/31 Joshua Grace Graduate student (History, MSU) “African Experts at Work: Men, Modernization, and the Making of African Cars in Tanzanian Repair Garages, 1910s to the 1980s”
2/07 Ken Harrow,
Salah Hassan,
Safoi Babana-Hampton		 Faculty (English, French, Classics & Italian, MSU) “Rethinking Area Studies and Postcoloniality in the Context of Globalization”
2/14 Susan Wyche Faculty (Telecommunication, Information Studies, & Media) “Social Media Use in Rural and Urban Kenya”
2/21 Lindsey Gish Ph.D. candidate (History, MSU) “The Signares of Saint Louis: A Revision of Saint Louis 18th and 19th Century Women”
2/28 Andrew Dillon Faculty (Agricultural Economics, MSU) “Agriculture, Health and Nutrition: Empirical Evidence from Nigeria and Burkina Faso”
3/7 S P R I N G B R E A K
3/14 Cornelius Onyekaba Theatre & Film Studies (Dept of Creative Arts, Univ of Lagos, Nigeria) “Dramatic Representation of the Nigeria Police in Nigerian Films”
3/21 Winifred Nwaefido Obasi Ph.D. Candidate (History, MSU) “Gender and the Encounter Between the Ufuma and the Missionaries”
3/28 Regis Chikowo Agricultural Systems Scientist (Plant & Soil Sci & Microbial Sciences, MSU & Univ of Zimbabwe) “Sustainable Intensification Technologies for a Changing Climate in Africa”
4/04 Phillip Woodhouse Faculty (Environment and Development University of Manchester, UK) “Water as a Dimension of Land Use: Implications for Agricultural Intensification in Sub-Saharan Africa”
4/11 Dag Henricksen BAB Basel, Switzerland “Herero History, Namibia”
4/18 Rita Kiki Edozie Faculty (International Relations, JMC, & Director, Afr. American & African Studies, MSU) “Mali and the Challenge & Promise of Africa: Explaining Conflict, Democracy, Development, Pluralism, Regionalism, and Globalization”
4/25 Jeff Conroy-Krutz Faculty (Political Science, MSU) “Partisan Voices on the African Airwaves: A Field Experiment on the Political Effects of Exposure to Talk Radio”