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Speaker Series

Fall Semester 2009

FDI co-sponsored Events

Wednesday, October 21, 2009
James Ferguson, Stanford University
"Asocial Welfare: Poverty & the New Arts of Government"
7:00 PM in Lander Auditorium, Hutchinson Hall
Sponsored by Department of Anthropology-2009 Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series. For more details visit site: http://www.rochester.edu/College/ANT/morgan/upcoming.html

Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Sudan Sunrise Event with Manute Bol, John Zogby
"Building Reconciliation: The Story of Sudan Sunrise"
6:00 Reception
7:00 Program
Interfaith Chapel
Co-sponsored by Office of the President, the Rochester Center for Community Leadership, the Interfaith Chapel, the Department of Athletics, and the Department of English.

Refreshments will be served.


November 4, 2009
Wednesday
Theorizing Black Studies: Representing African-Americans in the African Imagination

"Writing the Blues"
Leonora Miano
4:30 PM
Hawkins Carlson Reading Room, Rush Rhees Library
Sponsored by the UR Humanities Project, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, the Morey Fund, and the Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies. For more details visit site:http://www.rochester.edu/college/humanities/projects/index.php?imagination

Frederick Douglass
Institute for African and
African-American Studies
Morey 302
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627
585.275.7235
fdi@mail.rochester.edu