African Law
Student Association, Columbia University
and the
Center for
African Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
present the
symposium
Re-imagining Africa(ns) in light of Global Emigration & Neocolonialism
Schedule
of Events
|
10:00
am- 10:30 am |
Opening
Remarks |
Professor
George C. Bond William F. Russell Professor of
Anthropology & Education Director, Center for African Education |
|
10:30
am -12:00 pm |
Perspectives
on Women & Migration: A Panel & Discussion on Legality, Human Rights
and Service Provision |
Moderator: Chidimma Akwu-Jones Ramatu
Bangura Ramatu Bangura, Sauti Yetu Center for
African Women Professor
Christine Cynn Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Women's
Studies Associate Director, Africana Studies Women's Studies Department, Barnard
College Natasha
Johnson Lashley Director of Education at the Reciprocity
Foundation Alice African Services Committee |
|
12:00
pm – 1:00 pm |
Risk
& Protective Factors Associated with the Reintegration of Former Child
Soldiers in Northern Uganda |
Jeannie
Annan, Ph.D. Research Fellow |
|
1:00
pm – 2:00 pm |
Lunch |
|
|
2:00
pm – 3:00 pm |
Of
Genes and Race: Legal Hyper Visibility v. Social Invisibility in French
Contemporary Immigration Policies |
Mabula
Soumahoro Doctoral Student Barnard College |
|
3:00
pm – 3:15 pm |
Break |
|
|
3:15
pm – 4:15 pm |
Homecoming:
Opportunities for Business for Repatriating Africans |
Moderator:
Mojoyin Onijala Kenya
Consulate, Nigerian Consulate, Special Assistant to the Presidency on
Humanitarian and Migration affairs of Nigeria |
|
4:15
pm – 3:45 pm |
Closing
Remarks |
Professor
Brennan |
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