Institute for African Development
IAD Poetry Reading
Moving Words, Moving Worlds: Migration, Exile and Return
Poetry is sometimes viewed as the least directly political of literary genres, yet the political and other forms of exile have encroached on the lives of writers. Forced to flee their homeland, writers have chosen to make exile a vital theme as well as a practical condition. The IAD Migration Poetry Hour will highlight poets who straddle two worlds, seeking truth in experience as their poetry bear witness to new beginnings, new experiences and new stories.
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Dr. Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, a Liberian civil war survivor and poet, immigrated with her family to the US during the Liberian civil war. Her books of poetry have been critically reviewed by literary critics and scholars in Europe, Africa, South America, America, and elsewhere. A regular interviewee on her poetics by NPR affiliate TV and Radio stations around the US, Dr. Wesley is also a public speaker on topics about the Liberian civil war, the plight of women, and African and African Diaspora poetics. She is the author of six books of poetry and a children's book, including, Praise Song for My Children: New and Selected Poems (Feb, 2020) “When the Wanderers Come Home,” (2016), “Where the Road Turns,” (2010), “The River is Rising,” (2007), “Becoming Ebony,” (2003), and “Before the Palm Could Bloom: Poems of Africa,” (2012). Jabbeh Wesley’s individual poems and nonfiction articles have been published in numerous magazines, including Harvard Review, Harvard Divinity Review, Transition Magazine, Prairie Schooner, Crab Orchard Review, New Orleans Review, Black Renaissance Noire, among others. Her poetry and nonfiction pieces have been anthologized in dozens of books in the US and across the world, and her work has been translated in Spanish, Finnish, and Hebrew. She is Professor of English, Creative Writing, and African Literature at Penn State University’s Altoona campus. Conversations from Penn State | Patricia Jabbeh Wesley | Season 7 | Episode 11 | PBS
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High Food Prices are Part of a 'One-Two Punch' for Struggling Americans
Chris Barrett, IAD and SEAP
“The risk of food price spikes is driving people into diets or undernutrition who don't need to be there. We've got to find ways to both temper demand growth and to accelerate supply growth,” says Chris Barrett, professor of applied economics.
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naked agency: GENITAL CURSING AND BIOPOLITICS IN AFRICA
March 3, 2021
4:00 pm
naked agency: GENITAL CURSING AND BIOPOLITICS IN AFRICA
Please join Naminata Diabate for a book Discussion.
Naminata Diabate is associate professor of comparative literature at Cornell University. With linguistic expertise in Malinké, French, English, Nouchi, Spanish, and Latin, she explores questions of gender, sexuality, and race in Africa and the African diaspora. Analyzing novels, films, visual arts, and digital media, Diabate’s most recent work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals, collections of essays, and her book, Naked Agency: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa (Duke University Press, 2020). Currently, she is working on two monographs, “The Problem of Pleasure in Global Africa” and “Digital Insurgencies and Bodily Domains.”
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Institute for African Development
Institute for African Development Seminar: The Need for Climate Justice in Africa and its Diaspora: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic
March 4, 2021
2:40 pm
Issues in African Development Seminar Series examines critical concerns in contemporary Africa using a different theme each semester. The seminars provide a forum for participants to explore alternative perspectives and exchange ideas. They are also a focal activity for students and faculty interested in African development. In addition, prepares students for higher level courses on African economic, social and political development. The presentations are designed for students who are interested in development, Africa’s place in global studies, want to know about the peoples, cultures and societies that call Africa home, and explore development theories and alternate viewpoints on development.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
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Institute for African Development Seminar: The Importance of Clean Water and the Role of African Woman in Situation of Health Crises / Importance de l’eau potable et la place de la femme Africaine en situation de crise sanitaire: cas de la COVID-19
February 25, 2021
2:40 pm
Issues in African Development Seminar Series examines critical concerns in contemporary Africa using a different theme each semester. The seminars provide a forum for participants to explore alternative perspectives and exchange ideas. They are also a focal activity for students and faculty interested in African development. In addition, prepares students for higher level courses on African economic, social and political development. The presentations are designed for students who are interested in development, Africa’s place in global studies, want to know about the peoples, cultures and societies that call Africa home, and explore development theories and alternate viewpoints on development.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
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Institute for African Development Seminar: Student Health In COVID-19: Challenges and Prospects of Supply Chain Management in Africa
February 18, 2021
2:40 pm
Issues in African Development Seminar Series examines critical concerns in contemporary Africa using a different theme each semester. The seminars provide a forum for participants to explore alternative perspectives and exchange ideas. They are also a focal activity for students and faculty interested in African development. In addition, prepares students for higher level courses on African economic, social and political development. The presentations are designed for students who are interested in development, Africa’s place in global studies, want to know about the peoples, cultures and societies that call Africa home, and explore development theories and alternate viewpoints on development.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
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Institute for African Development Seminar: A Holistic Approach to the Design and Management of Public Health Policy in Africa: Necessity and Effectiveness of a Multi-Sectorial Synergy
February 11, 2021
2:40 pm
Issues in African Development Seminar Series examines critical concerns in contemporary Africa using a different theme each semester. The seminars provide a forum for participants to explore alternative perspectives and exchange ideas. They are also a focal activity for students and faculty interested in African development. In addition, prepares students for higher level courses on African economic, social and political development. The presentations are designed for students who are interested in development, Africa’s place in global studies, want to know about the peoples, cultures and societies that call Africa home, and explore development theories and alternate viewpoints on development.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for African Development
Former IAD Distinguished Africanist Scholar Vusi Gumede Appointed Dean
Vusi Gumede has been appointed Dean of the Faculty of Economics, Development and Business Science, University of Mpumalanga (UMP). Before joining UMP, since March 2013 Gumede was a Professor at the University of South Africa, having previously headed the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute. Prior to that Professor Gumede was an Associate Professor in Development Studies at the University of Johannesburg from June 2010 to February 2013.
Vusi Gumede has been appointed Dean of the Faculty of Economics, Development and Business Science, University of Mpumalanga (UMP). Before joining UMP, since March 2013 Gumede was a Professor at the University of South Africa, having previously headed the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute. Prior to that Professor Gumede was an Associate Professor in Development Studies at the University of Johannesburg from June 2010 to February 2013.
He has occupied various positions in the South African government, including being Special Advisor to the Minister of Public Enterprises, Economic Advisor to the Deputy Minister of Trade & Industry and Chief Policy Analyst in the Presidency’s erstwhile Policy Coordination and Advisory Services. Before joining government, Professor Gumede worked as lecturer and researcher for various institutions and has held numerous fellowships, including as a Distinguished Africanist Scholar at Cornell University and Yale World Fellow at Yale University and research fellowships with the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection, Centre for the Advanced Studies of African Society, Centre for the Study of African Economies and the International Policy Centre as well as an Honorary Professor at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business.
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Judith Van Allen
Regional Scholar Affiliate
Judith Van Allen is a Regional Scholar Affiliate at the Institute for African Development at Cornell University and a long-time activist-scholar. She received her B.A from Stanford University and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in political science and political theory. She has been writing about African women for more than 40 years, beginning with her work on the 1929 Igbo Women’s War. She remains concerned with integrating gender and the study of women into African studies, and integrating the study of African women into U.S. gender studies.