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 See below for bios of both women |
04/03/2009
Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students, with Penda Mbow and Aisatta Tall Sall PUBLIC EVENTS:(See Below for directions.) Film Screening: Women and the “Heroism of Everyday Life,” by Ousmane Sembene. “Women, Democracy and Civil Society in Africa: The Case of Senegal” Sponsors: Five Colleges, Inc. African Scholars Program , African Studies Council, and Lecture Fund; Mount Holyoke College Purington Fund, Office of the Dean of Faculty, and Department of French; Smith College Lecture Committee, African Studies Program, and Government Department Leanna Brown Fund; University of Massachusetts at Amherst W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies; Westfield State College Africa Alive!, Global Women's History Project, Academic Affairs, and the Office of the President. ********************************************************* Aisatta Tall-Sall is a prominent lawyer in Dakar with clients in many parts of the West African region and beyond. She is known as an activist, committed to democratization, social justice, and government accountability. She is a member of the politburo of the Senegalese Socialist Party, one of the leading political groupings in the Senegalese opposition. In the late 1990s she served in the Senegalese cabinet as Minister of Information and Communication. Ms. Tall also starred in the film "Bamako" as the prosecutor in the mock trial of the World Bank and the IMF that forms the key focus of the film's narrative. Penda Mbow is Associate Professor in the History Department at University Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal. She has been the recipient of a Senior Fulbright award to study at Michigan State University; a Rockefeller Foundation award for research at the Bellagio Center in Italy; and most recently, a grant from the National Endowment for Democracy to conduct research on citizenship and the secular state in Muslim countries. Professor Mbow is one of the world's leading voices on the rights of women in Islamic societies. She has written extensively about the evolution of Islam's relationship with democracy in Senegal and the interplay between gender, human rights, and religion in the Islamic world. She is on the editorial board of several publications, including The study of religions in Africa, Africa Zamani and Convergence. She has also served as Senegal's minister of culture and as cultural advisor to the Senegalese department of ethnography and historical heritage. In recognition of her achievements as a scholar, thinker, and political activist, she was named Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur Francaise (Knight of the French Legion of Honor) in 2003. Westfield State College, Scanlon Banquet Hall Mount Holyoke College, Gamble Auditorium Smith College, 106 Seelye Hall | |