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Spring 2008 Colloquium Series
Organized by David Simon

January 24

Etelle Higonnet
Human Rights Watch/Film-maker
"Blood Chocolate? Sexual Violence and War Crimes in Côte d'Ivoire"
Film screening to follow at 7:30 pm at the Afro-American Cultural Center, 211 Park St.

January 31

Eric Reeves
English / Smith College
"Shame Without End: Darfur and 'the responsibility to protect' "

February 7

Ato Onoma
Political Science / Yale University
"Divergent attitudes towards property rights security: the making and unmaking of institutions in Kenya"

February 21

Emmanuel Kreike
History / Princeton University
"Imag(en)ing Time Traveling Trees: Aerial Photography, GIS, Digitalization, and Environmental History"

March 6

Macartan Humphreys
Political Science / Columbia University
"Who Fights? Participation in African Civil Conflicts"

March 27

Alex Perullo
Musicology / Bryant
"Producing Song: Neoliberalism, Creative Practices, and Tanzania’s Economy of Music"

April 3

Leonard Wantchekon
Political Science / NYU
"The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and Mistrust in Africa: An Empirical Analysis"

April17

Pascaline Dupas
Economics / Dartmouth
"Fighting AIDS and Malaria: What Works?"

April 24

Stephanie Rupp
Kennedy School of Government / Harvard University
"Africa-China: The Politics of Engagement"

Unless otherwise stated, all lectures are on Thursday afternoons from 4:15 to 5:45 pm in room 203, Luce Hall, The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale, 34 Hillhouse Ave.

Admission is free and open to the public.

Funded in part by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.
Co-sponsored by the MacMillan Center and the Council on African Studies.


Updated April 3, 2008






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