Events
ICGC Brown Bag Series
Every semester during the academic year ICGC offers a series of informal noon-time lecture-discussions called “Brown Bags” because guests are invited to bring their lunches and eat during the sessions. Most of the presenters are ICGC Scholars, graduate students who report on some aspect of the research they are carrying out or who want to have a discussion about some area of concern within the developing world. Faculty whose research and teaching are of interest to the Scholars also make presentations in the series. The Brown Bags occur on Thursdays from noon to 1:00(unless otherwise noted) in room 531 Heller Hall, ICGC commons area.
ICGC Brown Bags, Spring 2008
January 31 Stuart Davis, CSDS, “Racial Democracy and Musical Performance in Classical Brazilian Cinema: Grande Otelo and the Chanchada”.
February 7 Rehema Kilonzo, Sociology, “Development Theories, Democracy, and Social Movement History”.
February 14 Terence Mashingaidze, History, “Mobility and Pathology: A Social History of Syphilis Control in Colonial Zimbabwe’s Midlands Province, 1900-1950s”.
February 21 Omar Tesdell, Geography - Speaking on the Minnesota Campuses for Justice in Palestine.
March 6 “Cuba?” A Roundtable with Greta Friedemann-Sanchez (HHH),
August Nimtz (PolSci), and Cecilia Aldorando (CSDS)
March 13 Steven Winduo, Prof of English, U of Papua New Guinea (Visiting Prof,
English, UMN) "Developmental Research and Community Outreach Experience"
March 27 Julie Weiskopf, History, Colonial Concentrate: Reconsiderations ofSleeping Sickness Concentration Policy in Kigoma Region, Tanzania
April 7 (Mon.) Ciraj Rassool, Dept. of History, University of the Western Cape, Mellon Visiting Scholar, ICGC, University of Minnesota, “From collective leadership to presidentialism: I.B. Tabata, authorship and the biographic threshold”
April 2 (Wed.) Eric Sheppard, Prof, Dept. of Geography, U of M
April 10 David Menyah, Geography, Institutional Environment and Informal
Sector Developement in Botwana: Peculiarities and Particularities
April 24 Yasmeen Arif, Sawyer Post-doctoral Fellow, Towards a New
Knowledge Cartography: Mapping Dialogic Spaces amongst and between the “South”