Friday, December 7th
Panel: Moderator: Felipe Smith, Director, African and African Diaspora Studies, Tulane
University. 10:00am-12:00pm, Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center
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Inside the Whale, Circa 2001: the Discipline of Postcolonial Studies in a Postcolonial
World. Biodun Jeyifo, Cornell University
Prequel: Four Disconnects and the Issue of the Post-Colonial Elaine Savory, New
School University
To Be Announced. Adeline Masquelier, Tulane University
Mellon Lecture: What is Africa to Me?: Africa in the Black Diaspora Imagination. F Abiola
Irele 4:30pm, Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center
Saturday, December 8th
Panel: Moderator: Adeline Masquelier, Tulane University. Discussant: Niyi Afolabi. 10:00am12:00pm, Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center
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Globalization, Diaspora and the Old World Order. Gaurav Desai, Tulane University
Beyond Categories. Christiane Fioupou, University of Toulouse
Poetry Recital: Lorna Goodison, University of Toronto. Chair: Roseanne Adderley 5:006:30pm, Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center
Dinner and African Night: 7:00pm, 4519 S. Galvez St., Mellon House