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MEDIA CONTACT: Sharon Dickman sdickman@rochester.edu
585.275.4128
April 6, 2006
TIME, DATE, AND PLACE: 1 p.m. Friday, April 14, in the Gowen Room of Wilson Commons on the University of Rochester's River Campus
ADMISSION: Free and open to the public
Jesse Weaver Shipley, director of Africana studies and assistant professor of Africana studies and anthropology at Bard College, will screen his hour-long documentary, Living the Hiplife: Reggie Rockstone & Stories of Ghanaian Hip Hop.
Shipley will be a fellow at the Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers University in 2006-07. His publications include "Visuality to Postcolonial African Politics: A Conversation with Mohamed Saidou N'Daou" (Public Culture, 2004) and "African/Diaspora History: W. E. B. Du Bois and Pan-Africanism in Ghana" (Africa World Press, 2003).
The Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies, the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, and the Department of Anthropology are co-sponsoring the program. It is the final event in this year's continuing series on Visual Culture & the African Diaspora.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Contact (585) 275-7235.
The University of Rochester (www.rochester.edu) is one of the nation's leading private universities. Located in Rochester, N.Y., the University gives students exceptional opportunities for interdisciplinary study and close collaboration with faculty through its unique cluster-based curriculum. Its College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering is complemented by the Eastman School of Music, Simon School of Business, Warner School of Education, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Schools of Medicine and Nursing, and the Memorial Art Gallery.
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