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Spring 2008 Brown Bag Lunch Lecture Series
Organized by Carol Gallo

January 30
Luce 102

Jeannine DeLombard
Gilder Lehrman Center & University of Toronto
"Slaver Narratives: Citizenship, Slave-Trafficking, and Piracy in the 1850s"

February 6
Luce 102

Jean Krasno
Political Science
"Three Public Opinion Surveys: Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Burundi: Assessing the work of the United Nations in these three African nations"

February 13
Luce 102

Michael Eastman
2007-2008 Fox International Fellow
"Reach Out and Be Healed - Traditional African Healing meets the South African Constitution"

February 27
Luce 102

Alexis Arieff
International Relations
"Still Standing: Guinea as a Negative Case Study for ‘Neighborhood Effects’ in Civil War Onset"

April 2
Luce 102

Maggie Montgomery
Engineering & Applied Science
"In Praise of a Clean Latrine: Assessing Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene in Relation to Trachoma Prevention in Rural Tanzania"

April 9
Luce 102

Briana Meacham
International Relations
"Southern Sudan: Prospects for Economic Stability"

April 16
Luce 102

Semuteh Freeman
Yale College (PC '08)
"America's African Colony: The American Colonization Society in the Founding of Liberia"

April 23
Luce 102

Bernard K. Freamon
Seton Hall Law School
"The 'Ulama' (Islamic Scholars) and the Abolition of Slavery in East Africa"

April 30
Luce 102

Diing Akol
Divinity School
"Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement: Is It a New Political Dispensation?"

All lectures are on Wednesdays from 11:45 to 12:45 pm in Luce 102, 34 Hillhouse Ave.

Admission is free, but send e-mail to carol.gallo@yale.edu by 11 a.m. Tuesday to arrange for lunch.

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

Updated March 28, 2008






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