[ May 14, 2015; 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm. ] Knight Library
Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.
Talk Title: “It Takes More Than Profits to Make a Man: Historical Understandings of Success Amongst Tanzanian Entrepreneurs”
Dr. Laura Fair is an associate professor of history at Michigan State University. Her current project is a wide-ranging study of commercial cinema in colonial and postcolonial Tanzania. Dr. Fair’s first book was Pastimes […]
[ February 18, 2015; 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Knight Library
Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.
Free & open to the public
The Supreme Price, directed and produced by Joanna Lipper, is a feature length documentary film that traces the evolution of the Pro-Democracy Movement in Nigeria and efforts to increase the participation of women in leadership roles. Following the annulment of her father’s victory in Nigeria’s presidential […]
[ April 24, 2015; 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm. ] Knight Library
Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.
A Lecture by Professor Wendy Laura Belcher, Princeton University
The 17th-century Ethiopian book The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Wälättä P̣eṭros features a life-long partnership between two women and the depiction of same-sex sexuality among nuns. The earliest known book-length biography about the life of an African woman, written in 1672 in […]
