African Studies Workshop (ASW)
The African Studies Workshop at Rice University is a key component of one the only multi-institutional academic networks for African Studies in the United States, the Houston Area African Studies Group. HAASG involves participation of faculty and students from the major universities in Houston as well as broader community participation. As well as making links across institutions, the ASW is interdisciplinary across Rice University and provides a forum for developing research interests in Africa. Each year the ASW and HAASG coordinators develop a program of activities that include individual research seminars, thematic seminar series, mini-conferences and workshops, as well as outreach community programs. The ASW is actively seeking to enhance the profile of African studies at Rice and is open to the opportunities provided by the presence of external faculty and post-doctoral fellows at the Humanities Research Center.
Out of Africa
As part of this year's Houston International Festival, this series of presentations and discussions by Houston area scholars considers the theme "out of Africa" as a sequence of three journeys.
18 April, Friday, 4 p.m.
The Neo-Liberal "Thin" State and the Transition to "Enclave Extraction" in the Post-Apartheid Fisheries
117 Humanities Building
Lance van Sittert, Mellon Global Scholar, Department of Environmental
Studies, Bowdoin College
24 April, Thursday, 4 p.m.
The First Journey
Re-envisioning West Africa's Past through Archaeology and Art
Susan Keech McIntosh, Professor of Archaeology, Rice University
The Menil Collection
1515 Sul Ross
Houston, Texas 77006
25 April, Friday, 10 a.m.
The Second Journey
Round Table on Africa and its Diasporas
Jew Don Boney, Associate Director, Mickey Leland Center on World Hunger and Peace at Texas Southern University
Alex Byrd, Assistant Professor of History, Rice University
James Conyers, Director and Professor of African American Studies, University of Houston
Edward Cox, Associate Professor of History, Rice University
Merline Pitre, Professor of History and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts & Behavioral Sciences, Texas Southern University
Kerry Ward, Assistant Professor of History, Rice University
The University Museum
Texas Southern University
3100 Cleburne Street
Houston, TX 77004
28 April, Monday, 5 p.m.
The Third Journey
Africa in the Age of Globalization: Du Bois in Africa
Earl Wright II, Associate Professor and Chair of Sociology, Texas Southern University
117 Humanities Building
Rice University
6100 Main Street
Houston, TX 77005
This series is co-sponsored by the Houston Area African Studies Group, the Menil Collection, the Mickey Leland Center at Texas Southern University, and the Houston International Festival. For more informantion contact Kerry Ward at kward@rice.edu or x2443.
