The second Thursday of each month, at 1:00 in Van Hise Hall, Rm 1418, a member of the faculty of the Department of African Languages & Literature presents some of her/his most current work in an informal setting. Presentations include:

SPRING 2008

March 13: "Speaking in Tongues: A Stylistic Explication of the Language Style of Ese-Ifa´–The Yoruba Ifa´ Literary Corpus" by Moses Olateju, Visiting Professor of African Languages & Literature from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria

FALL 2007

October 11: "Akan numeral compounding: a morpho-phonological account" by Seth Ofori

November 8: “Mourning Like Desert Animals in Bedouin Women's Poetry” by Moneera Al-Ghadeer

SPRING 2007

February 8: ""Shhh..., don't say 'fat,' it's 'corpulent'": body size, power and prestige in African political cartoons" by Tejumola Olaniyan

March 8: "The Idea of National Cinema" by Aliko Songolo

April 12: "Going the Distance: Swahili-Language Distance Education 2007" by Magdalena Hauner

FALL 2006

September 14: "'Making Coffee' (and Making More): Translating Sexual Grievance in Bedouin Women's Poetry" by Moneera Al-Ghadeer

October 12: "2006 Summer Arabic and Persian Immersion Program" by Dustin Cowell

November 9: "The Storyteller" by Harold Scheub

December 7: "'The Prerogative of Being a Girl': Women and Selfhood in the Fiction of Njabulu Ndebele" by Dean Makuluni

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