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September Thursday, Sept. 16, 2 p.m. 444 Cabell Hall. Timothy Snyder from Harvard University will speak on "The Ethnic Cleansing of Volhynia and Galicia by Ukrainians and Poles, 1943-1947." Snyder is an Academy Scholar at Harvard's Academy for International and Area Studies and the author of Nationalism, Marxism and Modern Central Europe: A Biography of Kazimierz Kellez Krauz, 1872-1905 (Harvard, 1997). He was also a Marshall Scholar and his work has won several awards. Contact: Jeffrey Rossman, History Department, 924-6384 / rossman@virginia.edu Friday, Sept. 17, 5:30 p.m., Campbell Hall. "There's More to Art than Gender or Race" -- Kay WalkingStick, a Native American artist and professor of art at Cornell University, will speak about her work in conjunction with the Bayly Museum special exhibition "The Heritage of Our Ancestors: Work by Jaune Quick-to-See and Kay WalkingStick," on display until October 10. Contact: Dona Yarbrough, Women's Center, 924-8979 / dly4a@virginia.edu  Wole Soyinka Tuesday-Thursday, Sept. 21-23, 4 p.m.,Minor Hall Auditorium. Wole Soyinka, the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of the Arts at Emory University, will present three Page-Barbour Lectures under the collective title, "The Muse at War: African Expression and the Siege of Censors." Soyinka is the author of several plays, novels, autobiographies, collections of poetry, books of cultural criticism on African politics, and scores of articles. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986, the first African -- indeed the first person of African descent -- to win the prize. A political activist and human rights campaigner, Soyinka is the chairperson of United Front of Nigeria, an umbrella of pro-democracy groups. Each of the three lectures will be held at 4 p.m. in Minor Auditorium, with a reception to follow.
In addition to his public lectures, Soyinka will participate in a public forum at the University Bookstore Mezzanine on Wednesday, Sept. 22, at 10:30 a.m. He will read from one of his works , engage the audience in conversation, and sign copies of his books. Sponsored by the 1999 Page Barbour Lectures, with additional support from the Woodson Institute's Race Seminar. Contact: Tejumola Olaniyan, Associate Professor, English, to4x@virginia.edu / 924-7105. Tuesday, Sept. 28, 4 p.m., Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 145 Ednam Drive. Thomas Costa, a fellow at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy, will speak on "18th Century African-Virginian History." Open to the public. Contact: Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 924-3296.
Wednesday, Sept. 29, 4 p.m., Studies in Women and Gender Conference Room, Minor 225; Reception/followed by opening of poster exhibit in Woodson Institute offices, Minor 108. The Woodson Institute invites the University community to meet its 1999-2000 predoctoral and postdoctoral fellows:
After brief presentations by each of the fellows, a reception will be held in the Woodson Institute Offices, Minor 108. A new exhibit, featuring posters of books produced by scholars during their tenure as Woodson Fellows, will be on display. Sponsored by the Woodson Institute. Contact: Scot French, saf5g@virginia.edu / 924-8889. October Friday, Oct. 1, Time and place TBA.. Ira Bashkow, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, James Madison University, will give a talk titled "'Whitemen' Are Good to Think With, for Orokaiva of Papua New Guinea." Cosponsored by the Anthropology Department and the Woodson Institute's Race Seminar. Contact: H. L. Seneviratne, hls@virginia.edu Thursday, Oct. 7, 3:30 p.m., Studies in Women and Gender Conference Room, Minor 225; reception to follow in Woodson Institute, Minor 108. Leslie Witz, Senior Lecturer in the History Hepartment at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, will discuss his coauthored (with Gary Minkley and Ciraj Rassool) paper, "The Boer War, Museums and Ratanga Junction, the Wildest Place in Africa: Public History in South Africa in the 1990s," at a Race Seminar/History Department workshop. Witz has published widely, with articles in Social Dynamics (South Africa), Radical History Review (US), South African Historical Journal, Journal of African History, and The History Teacher. His coauthored paper looks at three instances in which the public is engaged in historical production: the Anglo-Boer War centenary commemorations, the post-Apartheid transformation of South African museums, and the depiction of African wildness in Rutanga Junction. Participants in the workshop are encouraged to read the paper in advance; a copy is available to those with U.Va. ethernet connections or U.Va. dial-in accounts at the following WWW address:
Cosponsored by the Woodson Institute's Race Seminar and the History Department. Contact: John Mason, History, jem3a@virginia.edu / 924-6947. Monday, Oct. 11, Old Cabell Hall, 8:15 p.m. The Zimbabwe Group Leaders Mbira Ensemble will perform as part of the McIntire Department of Music Series. The featured artists, who lead their own mbira ensembles in Zimbabwe, have joined their talents for the tour to represent Zimbabwe's mbira tradition broadly. Altogether, the group features three different types of mbiras [mbira dzavadzimu, matepe, karimba], their accompanying styles of song and dance, as well as drums, hosho [gourd rattles], musical bows, and antelope trumpet. The featured artists include: Beauler Dyoko, Zimbabwe's first woman mbira recording artist and singer; Hakurotwi Mude, renowned singer and leader of the group Mhuri yekwaRwizi, and spirit medium; Cosmas Magaya, featured mbira player and mbira teacher; Simon Magaya, hosho player and expert on Shona custom [the Magaya's father is a renowned n'anga or herbalist]; Chaka Chawasarira, Headmaster of Zengea Primary School, as well as mbira maker and player, composer of church music, performer of drums and musical bows. Seats are $10 and $5. Members of the group will also give pre-arranged lecture-demonstrations in selected African and African-American Studies classes. Cosponsored by the Woodson Institute's Race Seminar. Contact: Marcy Day, Music, mmd3e@virginia.edu / 924-3052. Tuesday, Oct. 26, 4 p.m., Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 145 Ednam Drive. Ellen Eslinger, a fellow at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy, will speak on "Free Black Society in the Upper Shenandoah Valley, 1800-1865." Open to the public. Contact: Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 924-3296. Friday, Oct. 29, 4 p.m., Cabell 345 (reception to follow in Cabell 329). Sylvie Kandé, Professor of Francophone African literature at New York University, will speak on "Fictions Metisses: un homme pareil aux autres de Rene Maran." Kandé is the author of three books, including Discours sur le metissage/identites metisses: en quete d'Ariel. Co-sponsored by the Department of French Committee on Lectures and the Woodson Institute's Race Seminar. Contact: Kandioura Dramé, French Language and Literature, kd4j@virginia.edu / 4-4634. November Friday, Nov. 19, 3 p.m., Newcomb Hall Board Room. Franny Nudelman, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Virginia, will present her paper, "'The Blood of Millions': John Brown's Body, Public Violence, and Political Community." Copies will be placed in the Graduate Lounge in Randall Hall. Sponsored by the History Department's Southern Seminar. Contacts: Amy Rider (295-5755) or Clayton McClure Brooks (293-6180). December Wednesday, Dec. 8, 4 p.m., Minor 225 (Studies in Women and Gender Conference Room). Jerome S. Handler, Scholar-in-Residence at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, will discuss his paper, "Slave Medicine and Obeah in Barbados, ca. 1650 to 1834" at a Race Seminar workshop. Rosanne Adderley, Assistant Professor of History at Tulane University and a 1999-2000 postdoctoral fellow at the Woodson Institute, will comment. Sponsored by the Woodson Institute. Contact: Scot French, saf5g@virginia.edu / 924-8889. |
