AAA Conference: "Women Agency in Africa: Role, Motivation and Voice"

The African Activist Association at UCLA presents the 6th Annual Graduate Student Colloquim at the Fowler Museum, May 20-21, 2011. The keynote address on Friday, May 20 features UCLA African Studies alum Muadi Mukenge, discussing "Who Will Fund the Revolution: Women's Funds and Social Justice in Africa." The Saturday, May 21 program will consist of panel discussions and presentations on cinematic, artistic, and gender representations of women in Africa.

SATURDAY SCHEDULE:

Saturday, May 21 – 10am to 4pm at the Fowler Museum Lenart Auditorium -- Panel Discussions (subject to change)

Panel I -- Cinematic Representations of Women in Africa (10am-11:30am)

Moderator: Claudia Hoffmann, Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow and Visiting Interdepartmental Program in African Studies and the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media

Dana Turken (Film and Television, UCLA): "Storytelling and Silence: Identity Re-Construction in Julie Dash’s “Daughters of the Dust"
Nina Lavelanet (Film and Television, UCLA): “The Roses and gifts are like a machine-gun against your neck”: The Politics of Haitian Female Sexuality in Heading South (Vers le Sud)
Elinam Dellor (Public Health, UCLA): "Modernity and Women's Sexuality in Nigerian Film"
Jane'a Johnson (Film and Television, UCLA): "What If Mary Was An Illegal African Immigrant? The Children of Men as a Near-Future Nativity Story"
Alexander Woodman (African-American Studies, UCLA): "Struggle of Perceptibility"

Panel II - Artistic Representations of Women Agency in Africa (11:45am-1:00pm)

Moderator: Mary (Polly) Nooter Roberts, Professor, Worlds Arts and Cultures, UCLA

Mary (Polly) Nooter Roberts (Worlds Arts and Cultures, UCLA): "African Women at the Cutting Edge of Power and Resistance"
Casey O'Neil (Applied Linguistics, UCLA): "Powerlessness of Women: A Study of Referential Expressions in the Music Industry"
Charmaine Lang (African World Literature and Rhetoric, CSU Dominguez Hills): "Authentic Voice, Agency and Empowerments: Teaching the Works of Ama Ata Aiodoo"
Ndubuisi C. Ezeluomba (Art History, University of Port Harcourt): “Implications of Texts in Analyzing Material Culture: A Case of Olokun Shrine Sculptures”

Lunch: 1:00pm to 2:30pm on the Fowler Terrace – Lunch is provided free to conference attendees

Panel III - Gender Representations of Women in Africa (2:30-3:45pm)

Moderator: Edith M. Omwami, Assistant Professor, School of Education, UCLA

Barbara Goldberg (Founder, Wells Bring Hope): "Transforming the Lives of Women in West Africa"
Clemence Pinaud (History, University of Sorbonne, Paris): "From Huts to the Front: Women's Roles in Southern Sudan's Civil War”
Sarah Watkins (History, University of California, Santa Barbara): “The Triumph of the Wife: Sex, Gender and the State in Nineteenth Century Rwanda”
Amanda Silver-Westrick (Geography, UCLA): “Gender Roles and Inequalities Regarding Domestic Water Acquisition in Guede”
Rayed Khedher (Anthropology, UCLA): “The African Court of Women: A Deconstruction of the Widely Used and Misused Neoliberal Concepts of ‘Victimization and Empowerment’”

African Activist Association:
Co-Chair: Deborah Dauda
Co-Chair: Adaeze Nnamani
Treasurer: Anne Mueller
Secretary: Farah Abdi
Public Relations: Ridwa Abdi
Planning Committee: Cynthia Ugwuibe, Brian Smithson, Lafayette Gaston

Date: Saturday, May 21, 2011

Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Fowler Museum at UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095

Cost: Free and open to the public

Special Instructions

Pay-by-space and all-day parking ($10) available in lot 4 (enter UCLA at Westwood Plaza and Sunset Blvd., off Sunset). For campus map, directions, transportation options to UCLA, visit www.ucla.edu/map.

For more information please contact

African Activist Association at UCLA Tel: 310-825-3686
africanactivists@gmail.com
www.international.ucla.edu/africa

Sponsor(s): African Studies Center, UCLA International Institute, Fowler Museum at UCLA, UCLA Graduate Students Association, UCLA Campus Programs Committee (CPC), USA for Africa, African Education Project (UCLA)

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