Africa in the World/The World in Africa: A Border-Crossing Dialogue Featuring Howard W. French and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Department: Intl. Center for Writing and Trans.
Date and Time: February 10, 2011 | 1:30 PM-3:00 PMEvent Location: Humanities Instructional Building 135
Event Details
Featured Speakers:
Howard W. French (Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism), the author of the acclaimed book A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa (2004), and articles for the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, the Atlantic, and other premier publications.
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (UCI Department of Comparative Literature), the author of celebrated works of fiction, such as most recently Wizard of the Crow (2006), and a new work of non-fiction, Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir (2010).
Moderated by Laura J. Mitchell (UCI Department of HIstory)
Introduced by UCI Chancellor Michael V. Drake
Join us for this very special conversation between HOWARD FRENCH, an esteemed journalist and Open Society fellow (who has recently returned from Africa, where he was doing research for a new book on Chinese migration to the continent), and NGUGI WA THIONG'O, one of the leading African writers of our time (a UCI distinguished professor and past director of the university's International Center for Writing and Translation). This wide-ranging dialog will be moderated by LAURA MITCHELL, author of Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa (2008) and former co-director of the Huntington Library's "Past Tense" series, a seminar devoted to exploring the intersections of different genres of writing.
Sponsored by the UCI's Humanities Collective, International Center for Writing and Translation, and Department of History
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC: STUDENTS, FACULTY AND MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY ALL WELCOME
For information on visitor parking, go to: http://www.parking.uci.edu/permits/visitorpermits.cfm. Questions about the event should be sent to Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Chair, UCI History Department, jwassers@uci.edu