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Speakers, 1992-1993

Fall 1992

October 6, 1992: Richard Price and Sally Price
Paper Title: "Tales from Equatoria"

October 29, 1992: David Slavin, Department of History, Temple University
Paper Title: "Native Sons? Blindspots, Myths and Fantasies in French Cinema Colonial of the 1930s"

November 19, 1992: Vicente L. Rafael, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego
Paper Title: "White Love: Census and Melodrama in the United States Colonization of the Philippines"

December 10, 1992: Craig Saper, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
Paper Title: "Elusive Culture"

Spring 1993

January 28, 1993: Richard Bauman, Department of Folklore and Anthropology, Indiana University
Paper Title: "Informing Performance: Producing the Coloquio in Tierra Blanca"

February 18, 1993: Karin Barber, Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham
Paper Title: "The Role of the Yoruba Popular Theatre in the Creation and Affirmation of New Identities"

March 4, 1993: Kathy Curnow Nasara, Department of Art History, Cleveland State University
Paper Title: "Art Objects, Transnationalism and Ethnohistory: What the Afro-Portugese Ivories Tell Us about Sierra Leone"

March 18, 1993: Gary W. McDonogh, Growth and Structure of Cities, Bryn Mawr College
Paper Title: "Dialogues of the City: Metaphor, Power and Resistance in Barcelona"

April 15, 1993: Barbara D. Metcalf, Department of History, University of California, Davis
Paper Title: "Reading and Writing about Muslim Women in British India"

April 29, 1993: Carolyn S. Dean, Department of Art History, University of California, Santa Cruz
Paper Title: "Taki or Danza? Indigenous Dances in Colonial Cuzco"