Tue, November 18, 2008
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240.
The Concilium on Southern Africa is extremely pleased to announce a public conversation between distinguished scholars James Ferguson (Stanford University) and Achille Mbembe (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
Africa, colonialism, Concilium on Southern Africa, culture, diplomacy, economics, governance, health, human rights
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The growth of human populations and the rapid destruction of forested habitat are bringing humans and wildlife into ever-increasing contact. What does this amplified interaction mean for global public health and biodiversity? Duke PhD student, Meredith Barrett, supported by a DUCIS Graduate Award for Research & Training, traveled to Madagascar in search of answers.
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Mon, October 6, 2008 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
LSRC B101.
Free, reception to follow.
Award-winning journalist Adam Hochschild will speak about his recent work on the Abolitionist movement in 19th-century Great Britain. He authored King Leopold’s Ghost, the basis for the film featured in this series.
Contact FHI: 668-1901; fhi [Email: fhi #AT# duke.edu ]
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Sat, October 4, 2008 9:30 AM – 6:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240.
While there has been an explosion of scholarship specifically concerned with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, this conference hopes instead to use the AIDS epidemic as a way of expanding the definition of illness. The Social Coordinates of Illness in Post-Colonial Africa conference thus aims to explore configurations of (…)
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Fri, October 3, 2008 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240
Conference keynote address by João Biehl, Princeton University
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While there has been an explosion of scholarship specifically concerned with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, an upcoming conference, hosted by the Concilium on Southern Africa (COSA), hopes instead to use the AIDS epidemic as a way of expanding the definition of illness. The Social Coordinates of Illness in Post-Colonial Africa, (October 3rd and 4th, in the Franklin Center) thus aims to (…)
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