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Spring 2006 Brown Bag Lunch Lecture Series
Organized by Lucy Moore - if you have an interest in organizing this series in 2006-07, please contact Lora LeMosy. Thank you.

January 27
(Luce 103)

Ann Rodgers
Epidemiology and Public Health
"Fighting Trachoma with Better Sanitation in Northern Ghana"

February 10
(Luce 102)

Matthew Kustenbauder
Divinity
"Devils or Prophet-Diviners? The African Initiated Churches of Western Kenya and Christianity as Authentic African Religion"

February 17
(Luce 102)

Ruramisai Charumbira
History
"Women and the Making of Kings in Southern Africa in the late 1500s"

February 24
(Luce 103)

Marianne Camerer
African Studies
"Testing the System: Corruption and Reform in South Africa"

March 24
2 pm
(Luce 203)

Yasir Hamed
African Community Center for Educational and Social Services, New Haven
Nzogu Kulya
Economic Forum for Africa and KNZ Enterprises, New Haven, New Haven
"The Crisis in Darfur and its Economic Implication on Africa"

March 31
(Luce 102)

Sarah Beckham
EPH/African Studies
"Contagion, Cleansing, and Cure: Remedies for STDs and Associated HIV-risk in sub-Saharan Africa"

April 7
(Luce 102)

Andrew Offenburger
African Studies
"Literary Truths and Historical Fictions: The Xhosa Cattle-Killing of 1856-1857"

April 14
(Luce 102)

Reynolds Richter
African Studies
"World War II in Coastal Kenya: Food Rationing, Labor and the Limits of Colonial Governmentality"

April 21
(Luce 102)

Lisa Brooks
African Studies
"Community, Nation, and HIV/AIDS in Botswana: Rearticulating Relationships Through Song"

April 28
(Luce 102)

Sholly Gunter
Anthropology
"Sexual Conflict: Coercion and choice in chimpanzees at Ngogo, Kibale National Park, Uganda"


All lectures are on Fridays from 1:30 to 2:30 pm in Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave unless otherwise stated.

Admission is free, but send e-mail to lucy.moore@yale.edu by noon Thursday to arrange for lunch.

Co-sponsored by the MacMillan Center and the Council on African Studies.






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