A lecture series coordinated by Professor Francoise Lionnet
From Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart to contemporary screenwriting, from the continent to the diaspora, the dynamism of African creators keeps pace with the global transformations of culture. This series will feature an expatriate filmmaker with a unique comedic talent, a Francophone novelist-autobiographer, and a critic whose editorial work at the helm of the premier journal in the field shapes future trends.
Speakers:
Pascal Atuma
Monday, February 14
314 Royce Hall 4:30pm
Nigerian actor, comedian, screenwriter, director and producer, Only in America (2005), My American Nurse (2005), Hurricane in the Rose Garden (2009), among others.
Ken Bugul, (Mariètou Mbaye Biléoma)
Tuesday, February 22
6275 Bunche Hall (6th Floor)4:30pm
Senegalese Francophone novelist Author of The Abandoned Baobab (1982), La folie et la mort (2000), Mes hommes à moi (2008), among others.
Kwaku Larbi Korang- Author of Authors: Chinua Achebe and the African Institution of the Modern (Literary) Author-Function
Monday February 28
10383 Bunche Hall 4:30pm
Editor, Research in African Literature, Department of African American and African Studies & Department of Comparative Studies, Ohio State University. Author of Writing Ghana, Imagining Africa: Nation and African Modernity (2004)
These presentations are part of the UCLA African Studies Center Monday Africa Seminar Series (MASS), funded by a grant from the UCLA International Institute and are co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Film, Television and Digital Media, the UCLA School of Arts and Architecture, and the Mellon Postdoctoral Program: Cultures in Transnational Perspective.
Date: Monday, February 14, 2011
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095
United States
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Pay-by-space and all-day ($10) parking available in lot 3.
UCLA African Studies Center Tel: 310-825-3686
africa@international.ucla.edu
www.international.ucla.edu/africa
Sponsor(s): African Studies Center, The UCLA Department of Film, Television and Digital Media, the UCLA School of Arts and Architecture, and the Mellon Postdoctoral Program "Cultures in Transnational Perspective".
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