ASSA featured in The McGill Daily

The ASSA will be featured in the issue of The McGill Daily to be released tomorrow, Monday, November 21.  Make sure to pick up a copy!  Until then, read the article online at:

http://www.mcgilldaily.com/2011/11/african-studies-fights-to-restore-introductory-course/

Resolution passed at the AUS GA!

ASSA is delighted to announce that our resolution was passed tonight at the AUS General Assembly by a nearly unanimous vote!    The original form of the resolution can be read at the link below, but please note that it was amended during the GA to include that AUS will lobby in our favour for regaining the course AFRI 200. Thank you to all of those who came out and supported us tonight!

http://ausmcgill.com/d/files/Submitted%20Question%20-%20AUS%20General%20Assembly%20November%208,%202011.pdf

November Updates

Welcome to a whole new year of African Studies!  The ASSA team is working hard this year to plan some great events for all of you African Studies majors and minors students and to work with administration on some key goals to improve our program.  Also, we are working on creating our ListServ for the year by visiting all of the African Studies' eligible classes for the semester.  If you haven't been able to put your name on a list, please email us at assa.mcgill@gmail.com so we can keep you posted on our upcoming events. This November,  save the date for a Meet and Greet with the professors of African Studies on Tuesday the 15th (more details shortly).   Best of luck with remaining midterms!

On this date in 1991, Zambia held its first multi-party elections in 23 years.  Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Zambia for more details!

U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha

Time	Thursday, February 10 · 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location	Leacock 26
Created By	African Studies Students' Association, Ledah McKellar
More Info	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445776/ U-CARMEN is a feature film based on Georges Bizet's 19th-century opera that was filmed on location in a modern South African township setting. The energy, compassion, and heat of township life in all its elements create a constantly visually interesting and dynamic background for the unfolding of the story, which owes part of its huge popularity to the thrilling combination of a violent gangster tale with a passionate, almost supernatural love story. As it unfolds, it explores issues of fame and wealth, the position of a strong and independently minded woman in a very masculine society and, perhaps most importantly, the incomprehensible attraction between abuser and victim. Bizet's opera, based on Prosper Merimée's novel, premiered in Paris on March 3, 1875. Set in a poor area of Seville, the story of the magnetic woman who seduces, loves, and ultimately destroys her lover and herself, is well known..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGNmxQJd3AI

bell hooks on patriarchy, white supremacy and capitalism

"Renowned intellectual bell hooks examines popular culture in the context of patriarchy, white supremacy, and capitalism."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLMVqnyTo_0

Things to look forward to!

ASSA is currently working on meeting with the African Studies Program Committee at McGill to discuss the program's future in the coming year.

We are also planning a 2 day Conference March 11 and 12, 2011 - we will keep you posted on updates for this awesome event!

Also, *** We will be hosting a Wine and Cheese in November, time and place to be announced soon. We will also have a meeting at the same time for all African Studies Student's to share with us their opinions/suggestion on the program.

Romeo Dallaire "THEY FIGHT LIKE SOLDIERS, THEY DIE LIKE CHILDREN"

http://now.concordia.ca/upcoming-events/20101102/nov-4---romeo-dallaire-they-fight-like-soldiers-they-die-like-children.php

Senator and LGen Roméo Dallaire (ret), author of Shake Hands With the Devil and UN Force Commander during Rwanda’s genocide will discuss his new book on the scourge of child soldiers:

They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children.
(Random House Canada)

When: November 4, at 6:00 p.m.
Where: Room H-110, Henry F. Hall Building, 1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.

Admission is free.

Co-sponsored by the Concordia Student Union, McGill University Bookstore, Random House Canada, the Student Society of McGill University, and the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies at Concordia University.