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DON'T MISS TONIGHT'S LECTURE!
The Great African War: Congo and Regional Geopolitics, 1996-2006
Filip Reyntjens
University of Antwerp, Belgium
Tuesday, November 17, 7:30pm
Stoddard Hall, Smith College
In this lecture Reyntjens will address the causes, outcomes, and extraordinary human toll of the successive wars in the Great Lakes Region of Africa since the early 1990s.
Reyntjens is professor of law and politics at the University of Antwerp in Belgium, and he also serves as director of the University of Antwerp's Institute for Development Policy and Management. A world-renowned specialist on politics and violence in Central Africa, for more than three decades he has conducted research on Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Among his many books are Pouvoir et Droit au Rwanda: Droit publique et évolution politique, 1916-1973 (1985); Burundi 1972-1988. Continuité et changement(1989); L'Afrique des Grands Lacs en crise: Rwanda, Burundi: 1988-1994 (1994); Rwanda: Trois jours qui ont fait basculer l'histoire (1995). His most recent book is *The Great African War: Congo and Regional Geopolitics, 1996-2006,* published in September 2009 by Cambridge University Press.
Free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the Department of Government and the Smith College Lecture Committee. Co-sponsors include the African Studies Program and the Third World Development Studies Program at Smith, and the Five College African Studies Council.
Work Abroad Fair is tommorrow!
Wednesday, November 18, from noon to 4 p.m.
UMass is offering a Work Abroad Fair for students interested in international careers. Students are welcome from across the five campuses. There will be information booths in the Campus Center Concourse from noon to 3:15 p.m., with representatives from the Peace Corps, State Department and others. From 3:15 to 4 p.m. special presentations by representatives from the Department of State and Japan English Teaching (and perhaps others). More details >
The National Council for Black Studies strongly encourages you to present your work at NCBS in New Orleans next year and submit a paper for the graduate or undergraduate essay contest.
They are currently identifying strategies to recruit and retain students interested in the black experience into the NCBS community and certainly would benefit from your involvement.
Below is the web address to the call for papers (deadline November 24, 2009)
http://www.ncbsonline.org/conference___events
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