EVENTS
The African Activist Association at UCLA presents the 6th Annual Graduate Student Colloquium on
“Women Agency in Africa: Role, Motivation and Voice”
Friday, May 20 – Saturday, May 21, 2011
Fowler Museum at UCLA
Free and open to the public
Friday, May 20 Keynote Address by Muadi Mukenge
Regional Director for Sub-Saharan Africa, Global Fund for Women
Topic: “Who Will Fund the Revolution: Women’s Funds and Social Justice in Africa”
Performances by Wilfried Souly, World Arts and Cultures, and Horoya Kan Group (‘The Sound of Freedom’)
Friday, May 20 Preliminary Schedule:
6:00pm: Reception and Refreshments
6:30pm: Wilfried Souly, World Arts and Cultures Performance
7:00pm: Keynote Address by Muadi Mukenge
7:30pm: Horoya Kan Group (“The Sound of Freedom”)
8:30pm: Closing
Saturday, May 21 – 10am at the Fowler Museum Lenart Auditorium -- Panel Discussions (subject to change)
Panel I -- Cinematic Representations of Women in Africa (10am-11:30am)
Moderator: Claudia Hoffmann, Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow and Visiting Interdepartmental Program in African Studies and the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media
· Dana Turken (Film and Television, UCLA): "Storytelling and Silence: Identity Re-Construction in Julie Dash’s “Daughters of the Dust"
· Nina Lavelanet (Film and Television, UCLA): “The Roses and gifts are like a machine-gun against your neck”: The Politics of Haitian Female Sexuality in Heading South (Vers le Sud)
· Elinam Dellor (Public Health, UCLA): "Modernity and Women's Sexuality in Nigerian Film"
· Jane'a Johnson (Film and Television, UCLA): "What If Mary Was An Illegal African Immigrant? The Children of Men as a Near-Future Nativity Story"
· Alexander Woodman (African-American Studies, UCLA): "Struggle of Perceptibility"
Panel II - Artistic Representations of Women Agency in Africa (11:45am-1:00pm)
Moderator: Mary (Polly) Nooter Roberts, Professor, Worlds Arts & Cultures, UCLA
· Mary (Polly) Nooter Roberts (Worlds Arts and Cultures, UCLA): "African Women at the Cutting Edge of Power and Resistance"
· Casey O'Neil (Applied Linguistics, UCLA): "Powerlessness of Women: A Study of Referential Expressions in the Music Industry"
· Charmaine Lang (African World Literature and Rhetoric, CSU Dominguez Hills): "Authentic Voice, Agency and Empowerments: Teaching the Works of Ama Ata Aiodoo"
· Ndubuisi C. Ezeluomba (Art History, University of Port Harcourt): “Implications of Texts in Analyzing Material Culture: A Case of Olokun Shrine Sculptures”
Lunch: 1:00pm to 2:30pm on the Fowler Terrace – Lunch is provided free to conference attendees, East African cuisine
Panel III - Gender Representations of Women in Africa (2:30-3:45pm)
Moderator: Edith M. Omwami, Assistant Professor, School of Education, UCLA
· Barbara Goldberg (Founder, Wells Brings Hope): "Transforming the Lives of Women in West Africa"
· Clemence Pinaud (History, University of Sorbonne, Paris): "From Huts to the Front: Women's Roles in Southern Sudan's Civil War”
· Sarah Watkins (History, University of California, Santa Barbara): “The Triumph of the Wife: Sex, Gender and the State in Nineteenth Century Rwanda”
· Amanda Silver-Westrick (Geography, UCLA): “Gender Roles and Inequalities Regarding Domestic Water Acquisition in Guede”
Co-Sponsors:
UCLA James S. Coleman African Studies Center (UCLA)
Fowler Museum at UCLA
UCLA International Institute
UCLA Graduate Students Association
UCLA Campus Programs Committee (CPC)
USA for Africa
African Education Project (UCLA)
African Activist Association:
Co-Chair: Deborah Dauda
Co-Chair: Adaeze Nnamani
Treasurer: Anne Mueller
Secretary: Farah Abdi
Public Relations: Ridwa Abdi
Planning Committee: Cynthia Ugwuibe, Brian Smithson, Lafayette Gaston
Free and open to the public; pay-by-space and all-day parking ($10) available in lot 4
(enter UCLA at Westwood Plaza and Sunset Blvd., off Sunset).
For more information, email africanactivists@gmail.com or call 310-825-3686 or visit www.international.ucla.edu/
