PROGRAM INFORMATION

AFRICA ~ DAY ONE

8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast

8:55 - 9 a.m. ~ General Welcome
Percy Hintzen, Professor and Chair of UC Berkeley's Department of African American Studies

9 - 9:15 a.m. ~ Welcome and Intro
"Africa of the Imagination": Misconceptions and Stereotypes
Martha Saavedra, Associate Director of UC Berkeley's Center for African Studies

9:15 - 10:15 a.m. ~ Islam
"Islam in Africa"
David Gutelius, Stanford Research Institute, Visiting Scholar - specializes in African social & economic history and the history of Islamic Africa.

10:15 - 10:30 a.m. ~ BREAK

10:30 - 11:30 a.m. ~ Colonialism
"Colonialism: Continuities and Disruptions in West Africa"
Tabitha Kanogo, Associate Professor of History and Interim Chair (Spring 2003) Center for African Studies, UC Berkeley


11:30 - 12:30 p.m. ~ LUNCH PROVIDED

12:45 - 2:45 p.m. ~ Politics & Government
Panel on "Comparative Political Systems"
Moderated by Tetteh A. Kofi, Professor of Economics, University of San Francisco.
Graduate Student Panel ~ Corrie Decker, Ben Gardner and Saida Hodzic

2:45- 3:00p.m. ~ BREAK

3:00 - 5:30 p.m. ~ Classroom Applications
Mentor teachers:
Daouda Camara, Drew College Prep High School
William Carpenter, Enola D. Maxwell Middle School, 7th grade

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7 p.m. ~ Panel (open to the general public)
"Theme: Connecting Africa and the Diaspora"
* Pedro Noguera, Judith K. Dimon Professor in Communities and Schools, Harvard University

* David Theo Goldberg, Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute

* Sylviane Diouf, The Schomburg Research Center, New York and Author of, "Kings and Queens of West Africa"

*John Rickford, Martin Luther King Jr. Centennial Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Director of African American Studies, Stanford University

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PROGRAM INFORMATION

DIASPORA ~ DAY TWO

8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast

9 - 9:15 a.m. ~ Welcome and Intro
"Africanisms in the Diaspora: Identity, Culture and Religion"
Percy Hintzen, Professor and Chair of UC Berkeley's Department of African American Studies

9:15 - 10:15 a.m. ~ Identity, Culture & Music
"The Aesthetic and the Political in Popular Music"
Jocelyne Guilbault, Professor of Ethnomusicology, Music Department, UC Berkeley

10:15 - 10:30 a.m. ~ BREAK

10:30 - 11:30 a.m. ~ Social Movements
"Social Movements"
Angela Davis, Author, Activist and Professor of History of Consciousness at the UC Santa Cruz

11:30 - 12:30 p.m. ~ LUNCH PROVIDED

12:45 - 2:45 p.m. ~ Literature
Panel on "Literature of the Diaspora"
Gina Dent, Women's Studies, UC Santa Cruz
Graduate Student Panel ~ Sarita Cannon, Antoinette Chevalier and Ivy Mills

2:45 - 3:00 p.m. ~ BREAK

3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. ~ Classroom Applications
Mentor Teachers:
Bonnie Duplessis ~ Middle School, Fremont Unified School District
Lynn Moscrip ~ Lincoln High - 10th grade and PAR coach
Meryl Siegal ~ Laney College and University of San Francisco

5:30 p.m. ~ CLOSING WORDS
Percy Hintzen, Professor and Chair of UC Berkeley's Department of African American Studies

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Questions? ~ Contact
Amma Oduro,
Program Representative Center for African Studies,
UC Berkeley 510.642.8338 or <asc@uclink4.berkeley.edu>

This Institute is sponsored by...
the University of California Berkeley, Department of African American Studies,
Office of Resources for International and Area Studies (ORIAS),
Center for African Studies, Center for Race and Gender, the Ford Foundation,
and Title VI grants from the United States Department of Education.