Tricia Redeker Hepner Presents "Eritrea, Exile, & the State of Transnational Diaspora"
Based on field research conducted in Eritrea and the US, Dr. Hepner will discuss how the contemporary Eritrean diaspora and nation-state are bound together in an historical transnational social field that simultaneously enables and represses new forms of governance and civic participation. Eritrea emerges as a fascinating example of nationalism and nation-state building in an era of intensified global and transnational processes.
Thursday, December 09, 2004
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10367 Bunche Hall (10th floor
UCLA campus
enter Hilgard Ave. and Wyton Dr.
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Tricia Redeker Hepner earned her Ph.D. in anthropology from Michigan State University in 2004. She is currently a lecturer in anthropology at UC Irvine and has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship with the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. She is co-editing a collection of essays on the global Eritrean diaspora and serves on the executive committee of the Eritrean Studies Association.
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Cost: Free and open to the public; parking is available in lot 3 for $7.
For more information please contact
James S. Coleman African Studies Center
Tel: 310-825-3686
africa@international.ucla.edu
www.international.ucla.edu/africa
Sponsor(s): African Studies Center
