Center for African Studies at OSU

Mauritania's most prominent antislavery activist, Biram Dah Abeid, is visiting Columbus this week from the 9th (Thursday) through the 13th (following Monday).
The Columbus chapter of his abolitionist organization (IRA) is hoping that his upcoming visit will provide opportunities to establish contacts with city leaders, statehouse leaders, as well as the scholarly community at Ohio State. He will be on campus Thursday 3/9 from at the Hale Center, room 110B, from noon - one. All are welcome.

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Brown Bag: Linking Water Quality With Aquatic Biodiversity In Rural Ugandan Communities Voices from the Field Brown Bag Speaker Series This week, Suzanne Gray will discuss her Water Across the World project, where she works with students in rural Uganda and those in rural Ohio to conn…

Come and learn more at an upcoming information session:

Monday, November 23, 5:30 PM
246 Agricultural Administration Building

Thursday, December 3rd, 4:30 PM
Hall of Fame, Hale Hall
Or contact

Kelly Newlon, Coordinator
614 688 4144; [email protected]

Laura Joseph, Resident Director
614 292 8169; [email protected]

Africa Network: Focus on Dodoma, Tanzania:Inspiring Synergies between Tanzania's New Capital City and its University
Monday, April 13th
6 - 8:00 pm
Mason Hall Rotunda
Fisher College of Business
250 W. Woodruff Avenue

Visiting Professor Shabaan Mlacha, Deputy Vice Chancellor, Planning, Finance and Administration at the University of Dodoma will discuss the development of the University and the transformation of the city of Dodoma since it became the new Tanzanian capital city. Partnerships between private enterprise, NGOs, and international higher education institutions, including OSU, are a vital part of this development.

East African food will be served. Africanists of all backgrounds encouraged to attend, meet and greet one another. RSVP encouraged to [email protected] or 292 8169.

"Saving Africa": A 3-part Reflection. The Diaspora Dynamic in Humanitarian Relief and... December 16, 2014 Wednesday, February 4, 2015 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm Pomerene Hall 208 Over the last several decades, Columbus has become home to a number of vibrant African Diaspora communities from Somalia, Ethiopia, Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and elsewhere. Many young adults from these co…

2014 Ohio State International Photography Exhibition
"Beauty in the Fields"
Photo Location: Mulanje, Malawi
Photographer: Sami Downing
Home Country: United States
University Affiliation: Undergraduate Student
Category: People
Award: Honorable Mention

In the photographer's words: "This photo was taken in the sugar cane fields next to Mount Mulanje. Children from the villages around the fields were excited to see foreigners and would follow us everywhere. This photo is one of my favorites because it captures both beauty and struggle in the boy and his surroundings."

Please join us on Friday, Nov. 7 at 7pm for an amazing evening full of African music and speakers!
Admission is free and all donations go to Doctors Without Borders to help end the Ebola crisis.

Alec G. Hargreaves
"A French Intifada? French Muslims and the Middle East"
4:30 p.m., 0020 Page Hall, 1810 College Road
Co-sponsored with French and Italian, Comparative Studies, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, History, International Studies, and Center for Middle East Studies

[Alec G. Hargreaves]Home to the largest Muslim population in Western Europe, France occupies a key position in the spillover into the West of current conflicts in the Middle East. Alec G. Hargreaves explores the complex underpinnings of this dynamic, focused on unresolved tensions in French policy towards immigrant minorities of Arab and Muslim heritage. Professor emeritus at Florida State University, Hargreaves was Ada Belle Winthrop-King Professor of French and director of the Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies. A specialist on political, cultural and media aspects of post-colonial minorities in France, he is the author and editor of numerous books, the most recent of which are Transnational French Studies: Postcolonialism and Littérature-monde (Liverpool, 2011); Politics and Religion in France and the United States (Lexington, 2007); Multi-Ethnic France: Immigration, Politics, Culture and Society (Routledge, 2nd ed. 2007); Memory, Empire, and Postcolonialism: Legacies of French Colonialism (Lexington, 2005); and Memory, Empire and Postcolonialism (Lexington, 2005).


Read more

http://cllc.osu.edu/events/alec-g.-hargreaves-lecture-french-intifada-french-muslims-and-middle-east?utm_source=Mershon+Memo+10-6-14&utm_campaign=Mershon+Center+for+International+Security+Studies&utm_medium=email

Alec G. Hargreaves Lecture: A French Intifada? French Muslims and the Middle East | Center for... September 25, 2014 Thursday, October 9, 2014 - 4:30pm Page Hall 0020 Home to the largest Muslim population in Western Europe, France occupies a key position in the spillover into the West of current conflicts in the Middle East. Professor Alec Hargreaves explores the complex underpinnings of this dy…

On October 7th, 2014, from 12pm-1pm the Columbus Council on World Affairs will be hosting guest speaker: Never Barnabas Awukudzi; a survivor of child slavery in Ghana's fishing trade. The event is open to the general public and members. Please register your seat at the event at http://columbusworldaffairs.org/2014/october-7-2014/

Columbus Council on World Affairs» Blog Archive » October 7, 2014 Since 2002, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has worked to release more than 760 children, like Never, from the fishing trade around Ghana’s Lake Volta region. Some of the children that have been trafficked are as young as 4-years-of-age. The boys get up at 4am and prepare to go ou…

Learn more about initiatives on diaspora engagement when Andrew O’Brien, U.S. Department of State Special Representative, brings the Diaspora Tour to Ohio State on Wednesday (10/1) from 2-4 p.m. in the U.S. Bank Conference Theater in the Ohio Union. O’Brien will moderate a panel discussion featuring those who are passionate about improving the lives of others internationally. http://go.osu.edu/DiasporaTour

Office of International Affairs - Diaspora Tour at Ohio State, October 1 Information hub, in the Office of Academic Affairs, for the coordination, enhancement and development of Ohio State's international activities.

[Model African Union Club Kicks Off]

The Model African Union club will hold its next meeting on Wednesday, September 17th at 6:00 p.m., in Campbell Hall 209. MAU will represent Burkina Faso and Ethiopia at the Washington National Summit in February.

All are welcome. For details contact [email protected] .

[Ebola and the Political Economy of Health Care in Sub-Saharan Africa]

Friday, September 19, 2014 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Pomerene Hall 0306

The recent outbreak of Ebola in West Africa has claimed nearly 1900 lives, with many more projected losses in the coming months. The epidemic is unprecedented in size, complexity and the strain imposed on health systems. Much of the failure to contain the spread of Ebola is due to lack of investment in basic health infrastructure. This forum will explore the political and economic causes of poor health infrastructure in many Sub-Saharan African countries, including those directly impacted by Ebola. It will also consider challenges to health-seeking behavior in resource-poor contexts. The forum brings together scholars from several disciplines whose remarks will initiate the discussion forum.

· Kim Yi Dionne is an assistant professor of government at Smith College. Professor Dionne studies, among other things, the politics surrounding health (particularly HIV/AIDS) in Africa. She has been very visible in the media coverage of Ebola.

· Willa Friedman is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Houston. Part of her research focus is on (often unintended) behavioral changes in response to health systems.

· Marcel Yotebieng is an assistant professor of epidemiology in the OSU College of Public Health who works on infectious diseases and has an interest in health-seeking behavior at the micro level.

The forum is sponsored by The Midwest Working Group in African Political Economy (MGAPE), as part of its 2014 conference at the Ohio State University. Partners include the Department of Political Science, the Office of International Affairs and the Center for African Studies. For additional information contact Dr. Amanda Robinson, Department of Political Science, at [email protected].

[Zimbabwe's Minister of Tourism and Hospitality Industry coming to OSU]

“Great Zimbabwe: The role of tourism in the building of economies, international relationships and changing global images of Zimbabwe”

WHEN: Tuesday, September 23rd 2PM
WHERE: Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Conference Room
1501 Neil Ave, Columbus Ohio

The Hon. Eng. Walter Mzembi is Zimbabwe’s Minister of Tourism and Hospitality Industry.

Mzembi was a former Deputy Minister of Water Resources and Management; current Member of Parliament (Masvingo South,Zimbabwe); (ATA) and also the current President of the Africa Travel Association and a member of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) Executive Council since 2009,

Co-sponsors: Center for African Studies, African and African American Studies Department and the Mershon Center for International Security

Email questions to [email protected]

[CAS to host Extension Africa 2014 Conference]

The Center for African Studies (CAS) and partnering departments will host an international conference October 20th and 21st, 2014 on Agricultural Extension and Food Security in Africa. The conference will feature paper presentations on food security, extension, gender, environment/climate change, private sector, information technology, youth and related issues on African development.

Details can be found in webpage below

http://cas.osu.edu/news/cas-host-extension-africa-2014-conference

Contact [email protected] or (614) 292-8169 for more information.