ACAS at 2009 African Studies Meeting

ACAS GENERAL MEETING 2009 : BE/COME ACTIVE!
Friday, November 20, 7:00-9:00 pm – room announced in final ASA Program
Concerned Africa Scholars 2010
Contexts – Contradictions – Change
Bud Day Award For Activist Scholarship

ACAS BOARD MEETING with new members: Saturday, November 21, 5:00 pm – room to be announced

ACAS PANELS – Rooms announced in final ASA Program

Obama and African Affairs : Thursday, November 19, 3:00 to 5:00pm
Kiki Edozie (Chair), Michigan State University
Merle Bowen, University of Illinois
Joseph McLauren, Hofstra University
Clement Adibe, DePaul University
Dan Volman, Africa Security Research Project

The Democratic Republic of the Congo at Fifty: Rebuilding Prospects and Challenging Constraints : Friday, November 20, 10:15 am – 12:15 pm
Chair: Catharine Newbury, Smith College
Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, University of North Carolina
Tatiana Carayannis, Social Science Research Council
Ngwarsungu Chiwengo, Creighton University
Jason Stearns, Yale University