May 2012

    Gender, Creative Dissidence, and the Discourses of African Diaspora: A Colloquium in Honor of Ama Ata Aidoo   May 24-26, 2012 McCune Room, 6020 HSSB UC-Santa Barbara campus   © Nana Kofi Acquah © Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd. © Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd.   The African Studies Research Focus Group at UCSB proudly...

Barbara Junisbai  (Assistant Dean, Pritzer College) Thursday, May 24 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Kazakhstan's international image is of utmost importance to the government.  The government's approach to cultivate its image abroad  raises a number of questions about identity and nation-building.  Should the government...

(Mark Achbar & Jennifer Abbott, 2003, 145 min.) Thursday, May 24, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this acclaimed documentary, forty corporate insiders and critics -- including Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein and Milton Friedman -- explore the nature and spectacular rise of...

© Nana Kofi Acquah The African Studies Research Focus Group at UCSB proudly presents Gender, Creative Dissidence, and the Discourses of African Diaspora, a three-day conference at that will explore the work of eminent Ghanaian author Ama Ata Aidoo and the broader questions of Diaspora and...