African Studies Institute October lectures

The programs, institutes and centers in the Franklin College exist to bring our faculty and students greater opportunity to work within and across traditional disciplines. From certificate programs and study abroad to specialized cultural programming that brings important discussions and guests to campus, our international institutes in particular create a crucial nexus of teaching and learning on campus.

The African Studies Institute, for example, presents four terrific speakers on campus this month, in a cross-section of established lecture series and annual events. The schedule begins this week on Thursday Oct. 3 with ASI Visiting Scholar Mobolanle Sotunsa, professor of Languages & Literary Studies at Babcock University, Nigeria. Dr. Sotunsa' s public lecture “Yoruba Drum Language: Cultural Retention, Aesthetics and Transmission,” will be held in the room 217 pf the Hunter/Holmes Academic Building at 4 pm. 

Other ASI events this month include:

 

Wednesday, October 9

Apero Africana Brownbag Lecture

 

“The Evolution of the Co-Production of Public Safety and Public Order: Local Applications and Resulting Implications for Public Management”

Dr. Brian N. Williams

UGA Public Administration and Policy

 

481 Tate Center 

@ 12:15pm

Thursday, October 17

ASI FALL LECTURE

 

“Cotton Pickin’ Dilemma: The Case of Victoria’s Secrets and the Fair-trade Organic Cotton Fields of Burkina Faso”

 

Dr. Gilbert Werema

School of Management

Texas Woman’s University

Denton, Texas

 

Richard Russell Building Special Collections Libraries

@ 4pm                                                                  

                                                                           Light refreshments will be provided

Wednesday, October 23

Apero Africana Brownbag Lecture

 

“African Pastoralism in Transition: Linked Social and Ecological Dimensions of Sustainability”

Dr. Elizabeth King

UGA Odum School of Ecology

 

481 Tate Center   

@12:15pm

Image: View of the UGA arch from the Hunter Holmes Academic Building, via UGA photographic services. Photo by Dot Paul.