Amanuel Melles (aa608@freenet.toronto.on.ca)
Fri, 7 Jan 2000 19:27:44 -0500 (EST)
[source: AHNET; please note Nunu Kidane on NGOs & Africa on Jan 27.//amanuel]
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AFRICAN EVENING FORUM
Thursday Night Seminars Presented by
African Studies Special Languages
Winter Quarter '00-'01 Thursday Evenings
African Studies Special Languages 133B 7:30 - 9:00 PM
1 Unit Seminar, 4 Units with Workshop Skilling Auditorium
The African Evening Forum is a weekly evening seminar and workshop series
sponsored by the Stanford - U.C. Berkeley African Studies Program.
Stanford students can take the series for 1 unit with attendance sign-up or
4 units with an added one-hour workshop per week.
The forum is to establish a close relationship between students and faculty
at Stanford and Berkeley and Africans living in the Bay Area. Speakers are
drawn from Bay Area institutions. Africans in the Bay Area are invited to
attend the Thursday Evening lectures and discussions.
This Winter Quarter will feature discussions of the emerging African
economic blocs and their future role in managing African development.
Jan 6: "Organization of African Evening Forum"
Bruce Lusignan - Awetu Simesso
Jan 13: "The emerging African Economic Organization"
Awetu Simesso, Stanford University
Jan 20: "Martin Luther King, Jr. Millennium Celebration"
Rev. Bernice A. King, Kresge Auditorium
MLK Millennium Celebration
Jan 27: "The Role of NGO's in African Development"
Nunu Kidane, International Development Exchange
Feb 3: "Giving Back to Africa, Technological Innovations & Tech
Transfer"
Teshager Tesfaye, Juniper Corporation
Feb 10: "Africa Today"
Walter Turner, KPFA
Feb 17: "South Africa and Regional Development"
Speaker to be announced
Feb 24: "Search of Meaningful Language Policy for African Nations"
Yunus Rubanza, Stanford Linguistics Dept.
Mar 2: "Political Economic Trends in Africa Today"
Cobie Harris, San Jose State Political Science
Mar 9: "Final Presentation of Workshops"
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Christine Capper, Program Administrator
Center for African Studies
Building 240, Room 104
School of Humanities and Sciences
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2152
office ph: 650-723-0295
home ph: 650-964-3173
fax: 650-723-8528
http:www-leland.stanford.edu/dept/AFR/
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