Search Results for: ,aFr
Africa Initiative presents,’African Awakening:The Emerging Revolutions’
Special Guest Speaker: Firoze Manji, from Pambazuka in Oxford, an editor of African Awakening.
Syracuse Stage’s ‘The Brothers Size’ moving to leading theaters in South Africa
Syracuse Stage’s production of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brothers Size, directed by Producing Artistic Director Timothy Bond, will move to leading theaters in South Africa, made possible by support from the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation. “The Brothers Size” began rehearsing…
SU professors edit landmark book on Afro-Latin American rights
The rise of Afro-Latin American social movements is the basis of a new book, edited by Syracuse University professors Kwame Dixon and John Burdick. “Comparative Perspectives on Afro-Latin America” (University Press of Florida, 2012) is a collection of original essays…
School of Education to host workshop on African genocides and the Holocaust
The School of Education’s Regional Holocaust and Genocide Initiative will host a workshop titled “Teaching about Genocide with a Focus on Africa” at Syracuse University’s Winnick Hillel Center on Feb. 13 from 4-7 p.m. The workshop will be presented by…
McPeak receives grant for West African agricultural research project
The Livestock-Climate Change Collaborative Research Support Program (LCC CRSP) has awarded more than $1.3 million to Syracuse University and South Dakota State University for scientific research projects to improve the lives of livestock producers and increase the resilience of livestock…
Invisible Children to present the documentary ‘Tony’ about 25-year Central African conflict
Invisible Children, a media-based nonprofit dedicated to ending Africa’s longest-running war, will screen its latest documentary, ‘Tony,’ on Thursday, Nov. 3, at 6:30 p.m. in Watson Theater. Following the 50-minute documentary, Grace, a native of Uganda and an ambassador for…
Black Power movement is focus for African American Studies colloquium
“Bloody Lowndes and the Politics of Black Power” is the topic for the opening event of the Fall 2011 Colloquium Series presented by the Department of African American Studies in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences. Civil rights scholar…
SU students participate in West African Dance Residency with master teacher
On Oct. 4, a select group of SU students who are either members of a multicultural student dance organization, or just dance lovers at heart, began a six-week artist-in-residence program learning traditional West African dance from master teacher Biboti Ouikahilo….
Community Folk Art Center mounts new show, ‘African Diasporan Treasures’
CFAC launching its 40th exhibition season
McPeak to lead international team seeking to reduce climate change conflicts in Africa
John McPeak, associate professor of public administration in the Maxwell School, will lead an international team seeking to reduce climate-change related conflicts between herders and farmers in Africa