Nancy Jacobs, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History at Brown University, will deliver a talk on "Europe, Africa, and the Birds Between Them" at Macalester College, Olin Rice Hall Room 250 on February 25, from 4:30-6:00 p.m. The public is invited. For directions to Olin Rice, click this link<http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&ll=44.937091,-93.168944&spn=0.004534,0.00825&z=17&msid=115988568609438379296.00048035de6683681414e>. Parking is available in Macalester College lots (see map).
What are continents and how are they imagined? Africa and Europe exist as separate places because the people who inhabited them have had divergent histories. What about non-human beings on those landmasses? Are they European and African in the same way the human inhabitants are? How as humans do we distinguish between Africa, Europe, and their birds? Nancy Jacobs received her B.A. from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She received an M.A. in African Studies from UCLA and a Ph.D. in History from Indiana University. She is currently working on a book project titled Birders of a Feather: Stories of People, Birds, and Other People in Africa. -- Arjun Guneratne Professor of Anthropology Editor, Himalaya Department of Anthropology Macalester College Saint Paul, MN 55105 Phone: (651) 696-6362 Fax: (651) 696-6324 Website:http://www.macalester.edu/anthropology/people/guneratne.html ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
