The Department of African Languages & Literature Graduate Student Colloquium is held on the first Thursday of each month, at 12:00 noon, in Van Hise Hall, Rm. 1418. Each month, a graduate student from the Department presents her/his most current work in a semi-formal setting. Presentations include:

FALL 2007

October 4: "Globalization at Grassroots: Inyama Nnadozi's 'Hot Days, Long Nights'" by Florence Olamijulo

November 1: "From the mouths of babes: childhood in the Zimbabwean literature of crisis" by Joseph Chikowero

SPRING 2007

February 15: "'Peripheral Destinations': Road Imagery in the Poetry of Soyinka and Serote" by Matthew Brown

April 26: "The Lyric and Erotic Imagination of Niyi Osundare" by Mark Lilleleht

May 9: 2:30-5:00pm, African Verbal Stylistics class presentations

FALL 2006

October 5: "'Operating from the inside:'" Hausa film, Hausa women, and the deconstruction of the private sphere" by Carmen McCain.

November 2:"Gender and Form in Okot p'Bitek's Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol" by Florence Ebila.

December 14: "Writing for Dissertators and MA Students: from Proposal to Completion" by Moneera Al-Ghadeer and Melissa Tedrowe of the UW Writing Center.

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