Join ASP and our graduating students for presentations and discussions of their many accomplishments, experiences, and activities! We have 24 students presenting for 5 minutes each, so come and support your friends and students!
This event is free and open to the public. A light lunch will be provided.
What role does embodiment play in the making of religious selves, communities, and others, for those in Africa and its diasporas? How are embodied religious practices immersed in broader concerns of inter-relational ethics and socially transformative struggles for power?
Please join the International Week Committee and University Center for International Studies for the opening reception of the Displacement(s) film series. Refreshments will be provided prior to the first films in the series beginning at 6pm.
Join ASP, the Swahili Student Association (SSA), and the Less Commonly Taught Languages Center for a celebration of the vibrant Swahili language and culture! Free food will be served, and you will have a chance to engage with an African language that is spoken by millions of East and Central Africans in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, as well as in Burundi, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Comoro Islands, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, and Northern Zambia.
Please join African Studies and CMU's International Film Festival for a timely screening of "Between Fences," which tells the story of refugees (mainly from the Sudan and Eritrea) seeking asylum in Israel. Director Avi Mograbi and Chen Alon meet African asylum seekers in the Holot detention facility in the middle of the Negev Desert where they are confined by the state of Israel. Together with the African asylum seekers, they question the status of refugees in Israel using “Theatre of the Oppressed” techniques. What leads men and women to leave everything behind to go towards the unknown?
Genocide has evolved over time since the Holocaust. But the variables going into genocide have remained the same: targeting people on the basis of their identity. The biggest symbol of hope on the horizon regarding efforts to counter genocide is the growing people's movement to stop it from happening. Prendergast will discuss about how social movements are the force that has changed the course of history in the past in response to terrible atrocities, and will do so again with regard to genocide.
In this talk, Dr. Moses Ochonu, Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, will historicize the political, theological, and economic events and anxieties that produced the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria. He will deploy, as a structuring analytical device, the theological and polemical construct of munafunci (or hypocrisy). Munafunci is a recurring trope in the rhetorical claims of Muslim reformers and other critics of political and religious orthodoxies in Northern Nigeria.
Genocide has evolved over time since the Holocaust. But the variables going into genocide have remained the same: targeting people on the basis of their identity. The biggest symbol of hope on the horizon regarding efforts to counter genocide is the growing people's movement to stop it from happening. John Prendergast will discuss about how social movements are the force that has changed the course of history in the past in response to terrible atrocities, and will do so again with regard to genocide.
Join ASP and our Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant, Kelvin Ogelo, as Kelvin shares on the dynamics of juggling between the social and personal expectations of a young graduate. The setting of his talk is in rural Kenya, and his focus is on a college graduates from less privileged backgrounds.
Chicago human rights lawyer Standish Willis, founder, Black People Against Torture, and chair of the Chicago Chapter of The National Conference of Black Lawyers, will discuss his recent successful defense of the rights of victims of police torture in Chicago and its implications for human rights. His work speaks to larger questions about the translation of international law to local contexts, about the use of law to fight institutionalized racism against communities of color, and about the practice of law and the realization of human rights in communities.
