This forum provides opportunities for students in the program to share their research as well as seek constructive feedback from peers, faculty and staff. Active participation and conversation centered on the issues as they relate to Africa in global context is encouraged. We will select the two best undergraduate and two best graduate proposal submissions for presentation. The four students will host a panel presentation. Please join us to discuss the students' work and provide them with constructive feedback and encouragement for their work.

John Prendergast and Anne C. Richard will lecture.

When Tracy McGrady of the NBA heard of the massive challenges children from Darfur were facing in the refugee camps in Chad, he decided to travel there. This film highlights the Darfuri refugees' thirst for quality education in the camps.

The film shatters the silence that surrounds the use of sexual violence as a weapon of conflict. Many tens of thousands of women and girls have been systematically kidnapped, raped, mutilated and tortured by soldiers from both foreign militias and the Congolese army.

The African Studies Program will be showing a film titled NERIA. It is the story of Patrick and Neria who through shared hard work and resourcefulness, have built a comfortable home, good life and family in the city of HARARE in ZIMBABWE. But when their loving and equal partnership suddenly ends with the tragic death of Patrick, Neria's nightmare begins. The film deals with the difficulties faced by African women when they loose a husband.

This event will explore the experiences of African-Americans who have studied, taught and conducted research in Russia or focusing on Slavic languages, literatures and cultures, an academic field in which they are seriously underrepresented. It will include interactive discussion among the speakers and audience on the unique challenges of studying and traveling, as part of an underrepresented minority, in a region of the world which has historically and recently had an uneasy relationship with racial diversity, despite official Soviet-era pronouncements on the “friendship of peoples.”

Part of the African Studies Lecture Series. Angela Ayukachale was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA. She attended North Carolina A&T State University where she received her Bachelors degree in Biology. One year after completing her degree she entered the Peace Corps and spent 2 years in Cameroon, Africa teaching Biology to 7 and 8 graders.

A celebration of Africa with performance by Ya Baso Dance Team and the African Drum Ensemble. There will also be a special Guest Speaker: Stephanie Vikery who will give a presentation on the Importance of Clean Water for Africa. Stephanie spent time in Tanzania with Amazade Global Service Learning. She will share her experiences of Tanzania and the issues of health and clean water.

Up until now the perilous situation in Sudan has been seen only from outside the country. 'All About Darfur' offers an opportunity to hear it explained by eloquent, diverse and even contradictory voices from within Sudan.

Part of the Global Lens 2010 Series. In this deeply affecting portrait of ordinary courage in present-day South Africa, a single mother-Shirley Adams -struggles to care for her paraplegic teenage son, Donovan, in a depressed district on the outskirts of Cape Town. Wearied but resolute, she desperately clings to him as he withdraws from the world following a suicide attempt, and is hopeful when his spirits are momentarily lifted by the appearance of Tamsin, a pretty but overeager social worker.