UC African Studies MRG

This coming week Takyiwaa Manuh will be speaking at UCLA and UCSB. See below for information about both events:

UCSB

On Wednesday, March 4, 12:15-2:15 pm Professor Manuh will conduct an interdisciplinary seminar titled 
“Transnational Feminisms in Africa” 
The seminar will be held in the Feminist Studies Conference Room, 4631 South Hall.
There will be light refreshments.

In this interdisciplinary seminar, which will be focused on the place of transnational feminisms in Africa, Manuh will directly speak to the often bewildering relationship between institutional realities, discursive strategies, and meaningful activism. Based on her professional experience as a scholar, academic administrator, and gender activist, she will address West African and Ghanaian contexts in order to inform the expanding framework for transnationalism in Feminist Studies, History, History of Art and other disciplines.

Participants are encouraged to read the following chapter: Takyiwaa Manuh, “Doing Gender Work in Ghana,” in AFRICA AFTER GENDER? ed. Catherine Cole, Takyiwaa Manuh, and Stephan Miescher, pp. 125-49 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007) — a copy will be available a week before at
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This seminar is being organized by the Department of Feminist Studies and the African Studies Research Focus Group with support from the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, the University of California African Studies Multi-Campus Research Group, the Hull Chair in Feminist Studies, the Department of History, and the Department of History of Art & Architecture.

Upcoming Events in African Studies:

Fiddling in West Africa: Touching the Spirit in Fulbe, Hausa and Dagbamba Cultures

Jacqueline Djedje Professor and Chair, Department of Ethnomusicology

Monday, February 23, 2009 at 12:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall (10th floor)
UCLA campus
Free and open to the public

Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje has been on the UCLA faculty since 1979. She teaches theoretical area courses in African and African-American music and was director of an African-American vocal ensemble. Much of DjeDje’s research has focused on performance practices as they relate to the one-string fiddle tradition in West Africa. In recent years her research has extended to the study of fiddling in African-American culture and its inter-connections with Anglo-American music. In addition, she has conducted investigations on African-American religious music. She is particularly interested in how the dynamics of urban life give rise to change and other musical activity. She has conducted fieldwork in several countries in West Africa (Ghana, Nigeria, Cote d’Ivoire, The Gambia, and Senegal), Jamaica, California, and the southern United States (Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, and Louisiana).
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“Transnational Feminisms in Africa”

Professor Takyiwaa Manuh
University of Ghana, Legon

Monday, March 02, 2009 at 12:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall (6th floor)
UCLA campus
Free and open to the public

Abstract:
In this interdisciplinary seminar at UCLA, which will be focused on the place of transnational feminisms in Africa, Manuh will directly speak to the often bewildering relationship between institutional realities, discursive strategies, and meaningful activism. Based on her professional experience as a scholar, academic administrator, and gender activist, she will address West African and Ghanaian contexts in order to inform the expanding framework for transnationalism in Feminist Studies, History, History of Art and other disciplines.

Bio:
Professor Takyiwaa Manuh is director of the Institute of African Studies (IAS), University of Ghana, Legon. She is a leading academic on the African continent, and her intellectual commitments and institutional network defines African Studies as an increasingly global and diasporic field of inquiry. She holds an LLM degree and PhD in Anthropology from Indiana University, Bloomington. She has published more than fifty articles and books, and was elected as Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005.

Both these events are free and open to the public; pay-by-space and all-day ($9) parking available in lot 3. For campus map, directions, transportation options to UCLA, visit www.ucla.edu/map.

For more info, contact the UCLA African Studies Center at 310-825-3686 or email africa@international.ucla.edu or visit www.international.ucla.edu/africa
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Information forwarded by the UCLA African Studies Center (ASC) - www.international.ucla.edu/africa

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