CONVERSATIONS 2003
A roundtable series for recipients of the Driskell Center's
2002 Travel and Research Grants Competition
12:00-2:00pm
TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 2003
2209 Tawes Fine Arts Building
Laurie DeRose, Assistant Professor, Sociology
“Women's Autonomy and Fertility Transition in Sub Saharan Africa”
Amy Hardt, Graduate Student, Anthropology
“An Ethnographic Investigation of Health Benefits and Practices Among
the Kuassai People of Binaba Village, Ghana”
Tom Owuor, Graduate Student, Sociology
“Women's Autonomy and Fertility Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa”
Carola Weil, Research Fellow, Center for International Development and Conflict
Management
“People vs. Borders: Competing Norms of International Protections and
Military Intervention in Humanitarian Emergencies”
12:00-2:00pm
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 2003
2209 Tawes Fine Arts Building
Isabell Cserno, Graduate Student, American Studies
“I imagined that I must be white, too—what else could I be?”
Heather Nathans, Graduate Student, Theatre
“Lifting the Veil of Black: Sentiment and Slavery on the American Stage,
1787-1861”
Philip Roessler, Graduate Student, Government and Politics
“Understanding Non-State Violence: The Civil Defense Forces of Sierra
Leone and the Interahamwe of Rwanda”
12:00-2:00pm
THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2003
2209 Tawes Fine Arts Building
Elsa Barkley Brown, Associate Professor, History and Women’s Studies
“The Iconography of Black Gender”
Tamara De Silva, Graduate Student, Art History and Archaeology
“Re-defining the Master’s Tools”
Christopher Slogar, Graduate Student, Art History and Archaeology
“Recovering the History of Pottery at Calabar, Nigeria”
Kelly Quinn, Graduate Student, American Studies
“Making Modern Homes: A History of Two New Deal Housing Programs”
Conversations 2003 is free and open to the public. Lunchtime refreshments will be served.