>
> Prospective Schedule for 1997 ALA
> Meetings and other activities
> Poetry Reading Th & Fri, 10:00-12:00 midnight
> Women's Caucus Business Meeting Thur 2:00-3:00
> Film Screenings
> ALA Business Meeting: Sat 3:30-5:30
> Executive Council Meetings: Thurs, Fri, Sat 7:00-8:15; Sun 8:00
> AWP Reception Th 5:30
> Fonlon-Nichols Award Th 6:00
>
> Special Sessions and Plenary Sessions
> WED
> 8-10 p.m. Special Session 1: Women and Cinema: Ngozi Onwurah, Salem
> Mekuria, Flora M'Mbugu-Schelling
>
> WED: 5-6:30 p.m. Gloria Rolando--Oggun
>
> THUR
> 10:00-12:00 a.m.: Roundtable 1 Democratic Renewal in Late 20th
> Century Africa: Soyinka's The Open Sore of a Continent and
> Mahmood Mamdani's Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and
> the Legacy of Late Colonialism. Biodun Jeyifo (Cornell
> University), Lemuel Johnson (University of Michigan), Obioma
> Nnaemeka (Indiana University), Olateju Olaniyan, Kunle George,
> Jonathan Ngate (Cornell University).
>
> 1:00-3:00 p.m. afternoon: Special Session 2 : Cameroonian
> filmmakers FranIois Woukoache and Bassek ba Kohbio
>
> Thur 3:30-5:30 p.m. Roundtable 2: Insiders Outsiders: Eileen
> Julien (Indiana University), Kwame Anthony Appiah (Harvard
> University), Mineke Schipper (University of Leiden), Biodun
> Jeyifo (Cornell University), and Obiama Nnaemeka (Indiana
> University).
>
> Thur 5:30 AWP Reception
>
> Thur 6:00 Fonlon-Nichols Award
>
> Thur: 8 p.m.Plenary 3: FESPACO NIGHT: Djibril Diop Mambety:
> Showing of Hyenas & commentary
>
> Thur: 10:30-midnight Poetry Reading
>
> FRI 10-12:30 A.M. Showing of EVERYONE'S CHILD with Tsitsi
> Dangarembga & Shimmer Chinodya
>
> Fri 12:30-2:30 Afternoon: Women's Caucus lunch: Tsitsi
> Dangarembga
>
> Fri 3:00-5:00: Special Session 3: Anthropology & Film; Manthia
> Diawara and Trinh T. Minh-ha
>
> Fri 5:-6:30: Ola Balogun
>
> Fri: 8 p.m.FESPACO NIGHT: Islam and film: Assia Djebar
>
> Fri 10:30-midnight Poetry reading
>
> SAT 9:00-11:00 A.M.: Workshop 1: Critical Approaches to African
> Cinema: Manthia Diawara (New York University), Awam Amkpa (Mt.
> Holyoke College), Dudley Andrew (University of Iowa), Frank
> Ukadike (University of Michigan), and Keyan Tommaselli
> (University of Durban-Westville)
>
> Sat 11:00-1:00: Hosted by Graduate students: John Akomfrah &
> film, Last Angel of History.
>
> Sat: 1:30-3:30 P.M.Workshop 2: Teaching of African Cinema:
> Cornelius Moore (California Newsreel), Susan MacRae (U of
> Arkansas), Maureen Eke (Central Michigan University), Phil Rosen
> (Brown University), Laura Arntson (Michigan State University)
>
> Sat: 7:00 p.m.Banquet: FESPACO CELEBRATION: Gaston Kabore
>
> Sat 10:00 Ki-Yi Mbock Troupe!
>
>and lots more. please contact me for the panels, I cut it off so this
wouldn't be too long for those that pay by the byte... Steve Smith,
scs@dsr.us.net
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