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AAA Conference: "The Business of Africa"

Seventh Annual Conference hosted by the African Activist Association.



Saturday, May 19, 2012

10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Royce Hall 306

UCLA

Los Angeles , CA 90095



SATURDAY SCHEDULE:



Saturday, May 19-10:00am-5:30pm at Royce Hall 306. Panel Discussions



Panel I: Technology and Business (10:00-11:30am)



Moderator: Michael Lofchie, UCLA



Lela M. Winston, UCLA: Waking the Giant: Technology & Business in Africa

Yareka Mhango, Anakazi Center: Rethinking African Business Development

Ruth Carlitz, UCLA: Sending a Message: Assessing the Role of Mobile Phone Technology to Promote Local Government Accountability.

Alex Laverty, UCLA: Information and communication technologies (ICTs) in Sub-Saharan Africa

Panel II: Entrepreneurial Avenues & Impediments 11:45am-1:00pm



Moderator: Edith Mukudi Omwami, UCLA



Douglas Kolozsvari, University of Michigan: Privatizing Public Railways at Any Lost Benefit: Neoliberal Railway Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa

Brian Smithson, Duke University: Breaking a Leg in Lagos: The Nigerian Video Film Phenomenon as a Semi-digitized Network

Mark Malisa, The College of Saint Rose: Education and Transnational African/Black Childhood in 20th/21st Centuries

Lunch 1:00-2:00pm at the Royce Terrace. (Lunch is provided free to conference attendees)



Panel III: Reclaiming Creative Expressions: The Business of African Filmmaking 2:15-3:30pm



Moderator: Claudia Hoffmann, UCLA



Inês Cordeiro Dias, UCLA: The Business of Emigration in Flora Gomes’ “Nha Fala”

Rush Perez, UCLA: Retaking the Lens: An Examination of a New Generation of African Documentary Filmmakers and their Western Counterparts

Ty-Juana Taylor, UCLA: "Aural Journeys”: The Use of Music in African Cinema

Claudia Hoffmann, UCLA: Nollywood Abroad: Nigerian Video Film Production in North America

Panel IV: Film Screening 3:30-5:30pm



Moderator: Ruby Bell-Gam, UCLA





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For more information please contact

The James S. Coleman African Studies Center Tel: 310-825-3779

africanactivists@gmail.com

international.ucla.edu/africa/events/showevent.asp?eventid=9495





Download File: Business-of-Africa-Program-sm-rrn.pdf





Sponsor(s): African Studies Center, This conference was made possible by the generous support of Campus Programs Committee, Associated Students UCLA, UCLA Mellon Postdoctoral Program in the Humanities, Student Cultural and Diversity Programming Fund and African Studies Center UCLA.