February 2012

Yaba Badoe  (director) Thursday, February 16 / 5:00 PM 1701 Theater & Dance West The Witches of  Gambaga is the extraordinary story of a community of women condemned to live as witches in Northern Ghana. Made over the course of five  years, this disturbing expose is the product...

Keiji Sato (Hokkaido University, Japan and Davis Center, Harvard University) Thursday, February 16 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Social mobilization of ethnic groups represents an issue of widespread interest for historians and political scientists.  The presentation examines the social movements of Russian speakers in Estonia and Moldova,...

Mark Rosheim (author, Leonardo's Lost Robots) Carlo Pedretti (Art History, UCLA) Sara Taglialagamba (Art History, UCLA) Thursday, February 16 / 11:00 AM Embarcadero Hall  A discussion among three outstanding experts on the work of Leonardo da Vinci. Mark Rosheim is a mechanical engineer and author of...