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03/05/2009
"Managing African Portugal" lecture

Kesha Fikes will speak on the topic "Managing African Portugal" on Thursday, March 5, at 7:30 in Campus Center 917, UMass-Amherst.

Professor Fikes is assistant professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago and a Lusophone Studies scholar who works on Portugal, Cape Verde and Sao Tome. Her research observes how migration mutually shapes practices of identification in both sending and receiving settings. Her forthcoming book, Managing African Portugal: The Citizen-Migrant Distinction (Duke University Press, 2009), considers how Portugal's integration into the EU has altered migratory practice and experience for former colonials in Portugal.

This lecture is part of the year-long W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture Series, "Black Europeans: Race and the New Europe."

Please note that lecture is scheduled at a DIFFERENT time than originally announced on the poster distributed in September.

Professor Fikes is not leaving until Saturday morning, so if anyone would like to meet with her during the day on Friday, please email Prof. Sarah Lennox at lennox@german.umass.edu