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About: Africa on Film and Video Conference

Sun, 4 Jan 1998 10:48:10 -0800 (PST)

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    Originally dated: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 10:48:10 -0800 (PST)

    > Wow, this looks like a wonderful conference...
    > cross posted from VISCOM@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
    >
    >
    > 1998 CARTER LECTURE SERIES: "AFRICA ON FILM AND VIDEO CONFERENCE"
    > DAY ONE
    > SUNDAY, 22 MARCH ROOM 282 REITZ UNION 8:00AM --
    > 10:00PM
    >
    > REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST 8:00AM -- 9:00AM
    > 282 REITZ UNION
    > WELCOME: 9:00AM -- 10:00AM
    > Karen A. Holbrook, Vice President for Research and Dean of the
    > Graduate School
    > Willard W. Harrison, Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Science
    > Paul Gibbs, Director, Office of International Studies and Programs
    > Michael Chege, Director, Center For African Studies
    > 282 REITZ UNION
    >
    > OPENING REMARKS: 10:15AM --
    > 10:30AM
    > Mark A. Reid, Department of English, University of Florida
    > 282 REITZ UNION
    >
    > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    > LUNCH Break 10:30AM --
    > 12:00PM
    >
    > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    > SCREENINGS IN 282 REITZ UNION 12:00PM --
    > 10:00PM
    >
    > SCREENING: TESTAMENT 12:00PM --
    > 1:30PM
    > (John Akomfrah, Ghana/UK, 1988) 80 MINS
    > with introductory comments by Sheila Petty
    >
    > SCREENING: NERIA (DSR VIDEO) 1:30PM --
    > 3:13PM
    > (Godwin Mawuru, Zimbabwe, 1992) 103 mins.
    > 282 REITZ UNION
    >
    > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    > SUNDAY, 22 MARCH REITZ UNION AUDITORIUM 12:00PM --
    > 5:00PM
    >
    > SCREENING: FLAME (California Newsreel 35mm PRINT) 12:00PM --
    > 1:30PM
    > (Ingrid Sinclair, Zimbabwe, 1996) 85 mins.
    > REITZ UNION AUDITORIUM
    >
    > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    > SUNDAY, 22 MARCH REITZ UNION AUDITORIUM
    >
    > PANEL ONE: Sheila Petty 2:00PM --
    > 3:00PM
    > Dr. Sheila Petty, Dept. of Film and Video, University of Regina,
    > Saskatchewan,
    > Canada, "The Archeology of Memory: Transnational Visions of Africa in
    > a Borderless Cinema"
    > DISCUSSION
    > REITZ UNION AUDITORIUM
    >
    > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    > SCREENING: CLANDO (California Newsreel 35mm PRINT) 3:00PM --
    > 4:36PM
    > (Jean-Marie Teno, Cameroon, 1996) 96 mins.
    > REITZ UNION AUDITORIUM
    >
    > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    > RECEPTION: FRIENDS OF MUSIC ROOM 5:30PM --
    > 6:30PM
    > UNIVERSITY AUDITORIUM
    >
    > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    > SCREENING: EVERYONE'S CHILD (DSR 35mm PRINT) 8:00PM --
    > 9:30PM
    > (Tsitsi Dangarembga, Zimbabwe, 1996) 90 mins.
    > REITZ UNION AUDITORIUM
    > ________________________________________________________________
    > DAY TWO
    > MONDAY, 23 MARCH 282 REITZ UNION 8:00AM -- 4:00PM
    > SCREENINGS IN 282 REITZ UNION
    > OUSMANE SEMBENE CYCLE
    > SCREENING: CEDDO (VIDEO) 9:00AM -- 11:00AM
    > (Ousmane Sembene, Senegal, 1976) 120 mins.
    >
    > SCREENING: EMITAI (VIDEO) 11:00AM -- 12:45PM
    > (Ousmane Sembene, Senegal, 1971) 101 mins.
    >
    > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    > LUNCH BREAK 11:00AM --
    > 12:00PM
    >
    > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    > A233-A234 REITZ UNION 12:00PM -- 2:00PM
    > OPEN SCREENINGS
    >
    > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    > MONDAY, 23 MARCH REITZ UNION AUDITORIUM 12:00PM --5:00PM
    > SCREENING: CAMP de THIAROYE (VIDEO) 12:00PM -2:33PM
    > (Ousmane Sembene, Senegal,1989) 153 mins.
    > with introductory comments by Samba Gadjigo
    > REITZ UNION AUDITORIUM
    >
    > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    > PANEL TWO: SAMBA GADJIGO 2:40PM --3:40PM
    > Dr. Samba Gadjigo, Department of French, Mount Holyoke College
    > "Re-imagining and Re-representing Senegalese History: Ousmane
    > Sembene's
    > Emitai, Ceddo, and Camp de Thiaroye"
    > DISCUSSION
    > REITZ UNION AUDITORIUM
    >
    > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    > PANEL THREE: N. FRANK UKADIKE 4:00PM -- 5:00PM
    > Dr. N. Frank Ukadike, Program in Film and Video Studies and the
    > Center
    > for Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan-Ann
    > Arbor
    > "Video Boom and the Manifestations of First Cinema in Anglophone
    > Africa"
    > DISCUSSION
    > REITZ UNION AUDITORIUM
    >
    > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    > HARN MUSEUM SCREENINGS 7:30PM -- 10:00PM
    >
    > Ye Wonz Maibel/Deluge(16mm PRINT) 7:30PM -- 8:40PM
    > (Salem Mekuria, Channel Four, 1995) 68 mins.
    >
    > As I Remember It: A Portrait of Dorothy West 8:40PM -- 9:40PM
    > (Salem Mekuria, USA, 1991) 56 mins.
    > Q & A Session follows with Ms. Mekuria 9:40PM --10:00PM
    >
    > ________________________________________________
    > DAY THREE
    > TUESDAY, 24 MARCH 1998 282 REITZ UNION 8:00AM -- 6:00PM
    >
    > SCREENING: DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST (VIDEO) 8:00AM --10:00AM
    > (Julie Dash, 1991, USA) 113 mins.
    > 282 REITZ UNION
    > SCREENING: SIDET: FORCED EXILE (VIDEO) 11:00AM --12:00PM
    > (Salem Mekuria, Ethiopia, 1991) 60 mins.
    > 282 REITZ UNION
    > SCREENING: SANKOFA (VIDEO) 12:00PM --2:05PM
    > (Haile Gerima, Ghana/Burkina Faso/UK, 1993) 125 mins
    > 282 REITZ UNION
    >
    > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    > TUESDAY, 24 MARCH REITZ UNION AUDITORIUM 12:00PM --5:00PM
    >
    > PANEL FOUR: WESTERN WOMEN IMAG(IN)ING AFRICAN WOMEN
    > REITZ UNION AUDITORIUM
    > SALEM MEKURIA 12:00PM --1:00PM
    > Salem Mekuria, Producer, Writer, Director, Wellesley College
    > "'Dirt, Disease & Rituals': Western Women Imag(in)ing Africa"
    >
    > JENNIFER MACHIORLATTI 1:00PM --1:45PM
    > Dr. Jennifer Machiorlatti, Communication Department, University of
    > Michigan, Flint "The Diaspora Experience: Mythic Memory and African
    > Ancestral Lineage
    > in Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust"
    >
    > DISCUSSANT: 1:45PM -- 2:00PM
    > Dr. Mildred Hill-Lubin, Department English, University of Florida
    >
    >
    > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    > BREAK 2:00PM --2:30PM
    >
    > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    >
    > PANEL FIVE: AFRICAN AMERICANS RE-PRESENTING AFRICA
    > REITZ UNION AUDITORIUM
    > Aboubakar Sidiki Sanogo 2:30PM --3:15PM
    > Mr. Aboubakar Sidiki Sanogo, Visiting Fellow, University of Iowa,
    > Iowa
    > City.
    > "Encounters of a Different Kind"
    >
    > Mark A. Reid 3:15PM --4:00PM
    > Dr. Mark A. Reid, Department of English, University of Florida
    > "Race, Working-Class Consciousness and Dreaming in Africa"
    >
    > DISCUSSION 4:30PM -- 4:45PM
    >
    > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    >
    > DINNER & MUSICAL PERFORMANCE 6:30PM -- 9:00PM
    > ARREDONDO ROOM REITZ UNION
    > ________________________________________________
    > DAY FOUR
    > WEDNESDAY, 25 MARCH 282 REITZ UNION 8:00AM -- 1:00PM
    >
    > PANEL SIX: RECENT TRENDS IN AFRICAN CINEMA 9:00AM --10:30AM
    > SAMBA GADJIGO, JENNIFER MACHIORLATTI, SALEM MEKURIA, SHEILA PETTY,
    > ABOUBAKAR SANOGO AND N. FRANK UKADIKE
    > MODERATOR: Mark A. Reid
    >
    > CONFERENCE CLOSING & SUMMARY REMARKS 10:40AM -- 11:00AM
    >
    > For additional information contact:
    >
    > Dr. Mark A. Reid Tel: (352) 392-1013 ext. 246
    > Department of English Fax: (352) 377-7576
    > Box 117310 email: mreid@grove.ufl.edu
    > University of Florida
    > Gainesville, FL 32611-7310
    > U.S.A.
    >
    > *********
    > posted by
    > JAY RUBY - Temple University - PO Box 128, Mifflintown, PA
    > 17059 USA fax - 717-436-9559 voice - 717-436-9502
    >



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