Fall quarter: Performative Culture

Wednesday, October 14. 12-1.15 pm, Knight Library Browsing Room – Dr. Susan Gagliardi. Art History, Emory University

“Unseeing Audiences: Women and Power Associations on the Senofo-Mande Cultural ‘Frontier’ ”

Thursday, October 29. 12-1.15 pm, Knight Library Browsing Room – Patience Munjeri. Kutsinhera Cultural Arts Center/Zimbabwe

“Traditional Zimbabwean Mbira Music and Its Uses in Spiritual and Cultural Contexts”

• Watch the video of Patience’s talk here: http://media.uoregon.edu/channel/archives/10250

Thursday, November 12. 12-1.15 pm, Knight Library Browsing Room – Dr. Habib Iddrissu. Ethnomusicology & Dance, University of Oregon

“Creation of the Multi-Ethnic Master Drummer”

Spring quarter:  Sexuality in Africa

Monday, April 11. 12-1.15 pm, Knight Library, Browsing Room– Dr. Angela Montague. International Studies, University of Oregon

“Rites vs. Rights: Female Genital Cutting in Sub-Saharan Africa”

• Watch the video of Dr. Montague’s talk here: http://media.uoregon.edu/channel/archives/10753

Tuesday, May 3. 12-1.15 pm, Knight Library, Browsing Room – Dr. Rachel Jean-Baptiste. Department of History, University of California-Davis

“The Ancient and The Modern: Customary and Civil Marriage and Family Law in Post-Colonial Gabon”

• This talk addresses the complex issues surrounding competing systems of what counts as sanctioned marriage in current-day Gabon. Dr. Jean-Baptiste is a historian of colonial and post-colonial French-speaking Central and West Africa, with research interests in the history of sexuality, gender, and women’s history, marriage and family law, among other topics.
• Watch the video of Dr. Jean-Baptiste’s talk here: http://media.uoregon.edu/channel/archives/10853

Thursday, May 12. 12-1.15 pm, Knight Library, Studio A – Dr. Sanyu Mojola. Department of Sociology, University of Colorado-Boulder

“Love, Money, and HIV: Becoming a Modern African Woman in the Age of AIDS”