20th Annual Graduate Student Conference in African Studies
Contesting Boundaries:
Emerging Scholarship on Africa
March 30-31
Boston University’s Graduate Student Conference in African Studies is pleased to mark its 20th anniversary. This year’s conference will feature the work of emerging graduate scholars engaging Africa from an array of disciplines.
All are welcome to attend the conference and the the keynote address.
Keynote Address
“The Idea of Africa’s Future”
Ifeanyi Menkiti
Professor of Philosophy, Wellesley College
Keynote Speaker
Ifeanyi Menkiti was born in Onitsha, Nigeria. He received his BA from Pomona College, MS from Columbia University, MA from New York University, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he studied under John Rawls, his dissertation adviser.
Professor Menkiti has been a professor of philosophy at Wellesley College since 1973. His philosophical writings have appeared in such journals as The Journal of Value Inquiry, The Philosophical Forum, The Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Philosophia Africana, The Harvard Educational Review,and New Political Science. In 1996, he received Wellesley College’s top teaching award, the Pinanski Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
Professor Menkiti is the current owner of the historic Grolier Poetry Book Shop in Harvard Square, the nation’s oldest all-poetry bookshop made famous by its association with poets such as T.S. Eliot, E.E. Cummings, Robert Lowell, Robert Creeley, Elizabeth Bishop, and others. Menkiti’s own poetry has been published widely in the United States, Africa, and Europe.
His two most recent collections are: Of Altair, the Bright Light and Before a Common Soil.
Final Conference Program
Here is the Program Final 2012. It will open in a new window as a printable pdf.
Registration Information for Presenters
A $25 conference fee is payable for all presenters upon on-site registration on March 30th. Attending the conference is free for members of the public.
Lodging and Accommodation Suggestions
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Abercrombie’s Farrington Inn
23 Farrington Avenue
Boston, MA 02134
Tel: 617.787.1860
Email: info@farringtoninn.com
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Adams Bed & Breakfast
14 Edgerly Road
Boston, MA 02115
Tel: 617.267.1920
Email: info@adamsboston.com
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Beacon Inn
1087 & 1750 Beacon Street
Brookline, MA 02446 / 02445
Tel: 617.566.008
Email: info@beaconinn.com
http://www.beaconinn.com/
The Bertram Inn
92 Sewall Avenue
Brookline, MA 02446
Tel: 617.356.2234
Email: innkeeper@bertraminn.com
http://www.bertraminn.com/
Boston Hotel Buckminster**
645 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02215
Tel: 1-800-727-2825
Email: info@bostonhotelbuckminster.com
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Harding House
288 Harvard Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel: 617.876.2888
Email: reserve@harding-house.com
http://www.harding-house.com/
Hosteling International, Boston
12 Hemenway Street
Boston, MA 02115
Tel: 617.536.9455
Email: bostonhostel@bostonhostel.org
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Midtown Hotel
220 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Tel: 617.262.1000
Email: carol@midtownhotel.com
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Newbury Guest House
261 Newbury Street
Boston, MA 02116
Tel: 1.800.437.7668
Email: info@newburyguesthouse.com
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Oasis Guest House
22 Edgerly Road
Boston, MA 02115
Tel: 617.267.2262
Email: info@oasisgh.com
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The Samuel Sewall Inn
143 Saint Paul Street
Brookline, MA 02446
Tel: 617.713.0123
Email: innkeeper@samuelsewallinn.com
http://www.samuelsewallinn.com/
**Option closest to conference venue
Contacts & More Information
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Origins of the Annual Graduate Conference in African Studies at BU
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