Yale Council on African Studies

Spring 2005 Colloquium Series
New Directions in African History
Organized by Michael Mahoney

January 20 Thursday 4:30 pm, HGS 401	Jeremy Prestholdt Northeastern University Peripheral Visions: East African Consumerism in a Global Age
February 9 Wednesday Luce 203	Lynn Thomas University of Washington The Modern Girl, Cosmetics Debates, and Racial Respectability in 1930s South Africa
February 18 Friday 4:30 pm, HGS 401	Diana Wylie Boston University From the Bottom of our Hearts: The Life and Times of a South African Artist, 1948-85
March 23 Wednesday Luce 203	Derek Peterson The College of New Jersey Autobiography and the Documenting of Life in Central Kenya
April 28 Thursday Luce 203	Caroline Elkins Harvard University Where does 'custration' of men come from?: Gendered Violence during the Mau Mau Emergency
May 4 Wednesday Luce 203	Catherine Cole University of California, Santa Barbara South Africa's Truth Commission: A Transitional Stage

Lectures are either at 4:30 pm in HGS 401, 320 York St.
or at 4:15 pm in Luce 203, 34 Hillhouse Ave.

Admission is free and open to the public.

Funded in part by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant. Also sponsored by the Yale Center for International and Area Studies and the Council on African Studies.

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The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale