{"id":24539,"date":"2016-09-23T16:35:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T20:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=24539"},"modified":"2021-02-03T17:40:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T22:40:01","slug":"african-studies-center-hosts-reception-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2016\/09\/23\/african-studies-center-hosts-reception-2\/","title":{"rendered":"African Studies Center Hosts Reception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/09\/ASC1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/09\/ASC1-516x300.jpg\" alt=\"ASC1\" width=\"516\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/09\/ASC1-516x300.jpg 516w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/09\/ASC1-768x447.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/09\/ASC1-1024x596.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/\">African Studies Center, <\/a><span>an affiliated regional center of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\">Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University,<\/a><span> hosted a welcome reception for faculty, students and friends on September 22, 2016.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/timothy-p-longman\/\">Tim Longman,<\/a><span>\u00a0Director of the African Studies Center, welcome faculty and students back to the center and took the opportunity to highlight a milestone for the Walter Rodney Seminar, the interdisciplinary\u00a0lecture series inaugurated in the fall of 1977\u00a0\u00a0that has included presentations by established and incipient scholars in all Africa-related disciplines, including history, anthropology, political science, economics, sociology, public health, literature, visual arts, musicology, religion, Islamic studies, international relations, and\u00a0public diplomacy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the 40th anniversary of that series, it&#8217;s our main vehicle for building an intellectual community, it&#8217;s an interdisciplinary program,&#8221; Longman said. &#8220;We bring in people from the outside, we have some of our graduate students speak, our professors occasionally speak &#8212; it&#8217;s the one time when the group gathers all together to talk about\u00a0the issues that are important to this center.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can find out about upcoming installments in the Walter Rodney Seminar series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/events\/rodney\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span>Founded in 1953, the African Studies Center has provided a strong foundation in African studies to generations of university professors, economists, health workers, government officials, development personnel, diplomats, and numerous others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/\">Learn more about the African Studies Center here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The African Studies Center held a reception to welcome faculty, students and friends back to campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8431,8411],"tags":[9287,9735,9737,8610,9736],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24541,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24539\/revisions\/24541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}