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| Conference Schedule | The 31st Annual Conference on African
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| The 31st Annual Conference on African Linguistics will be held at Boston University from Thursday 2 March to Sunday 5 March 2000. Although most of the program is of interest primarily to academic linguists and open to registered participants, two events are free and open to the general public: Plenary lecture "After Asmara: the future of African languages and literatures" Friday 3 March 2000, 5:30 p.m., Metcalf Hall, George Sherman Union, 775 Comm. Av, Boston University. This lecture, by the Kenyan writer and activist Prof. Ngugi wa Thiong'o, is followed by a public reception. Panel presentation "Afro-Atlantic languages & religious texts" Saturday 4 March 2000, Metcalf Hall, George Sherman Union, 775 Comm. Av, Boston University. 1:30 p.m. ‹ A. Schwegler (U de Costa Rica/U California Irvine) The Black ritual curse: the art of Œsounding¹ in the Americas 2:10 p.m. ‹ K. Bilby (Smithsonian Institution) Reevaluating the African lexical component of the Surinamese Maroon Creoles: the Aluku case 2:50 p.m. ‹ K.K.B. Fu-Kiau (Boston, Mass.) African diasporadic languages: unspoken but alive and powerful 3:30 p.m. ‹ M. Warner-Lewis (U of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica) Challenges in translating Trinidad Yoruba song texts 4:20 p.m. ‹ I. Miller (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYC) From West African Ekpe to Cuban Abakua: linguistic evidence for the presence of Africa in Cuba 5 p.m. ‹ Rey Gonzalez (Boston, Mass.) Cantos de Lucumi: interpretacion 5:40 p.m. ‹ John Mason (Yoruba Theological Archministry, Brooklyn, NYC) Problem areas in translating Yoruba texts 6:20 p.m. ‹ D. Dawson (American Museum of Natural History, NYC) Palo Mayombe: the visual language of a Kongo religion in Cuba The Afro-Atlantic panel is followed by a dinner-dance at the Jorge Hernandez Cultural Center at Villa Victoria/Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción, 85 West Newton Street, South End, Boston. The dinner-dance is catered by Restaurant Sodade Terra and features the Capeverdean band Spluson 2000. Dinner tickets ($15) can be purchased at the conference before noon on Saturday 4 March. (Please note that, due to legal restrictions, dinner tickets will not be available at the door.) More information: V. Manfredi (617-441-2534, manfredi@bu.edu). |
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