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Fall 2007 EVENTS:
BILINGUALISM, PARA QUÉ?
Language and the Education of Immigrants in the U.S. - A lecture with Ofelia Garcia
Tuesday 10/23
7:00 p.m.
Sulzberger Parlor,
3rd Floor Barnard Hall
Immigrants make up an increasing percentage of U.S. students. But all too often American schools only notice those who are called "English Language Learners." In this lecture, Ofelia Garcia, Professor of Bilingual/Bicultural Education and co-Director of the Center for Multiple Languages and Literacies at Teachers College, Columbia University, examines the U.S. language-in-education policy as it affects immigrant students, and takes to task its monoglossic assumptions.
GENDER & MIGRATION IN A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
Friday 10/26
1:00 p.m.
Room 1512 International Affairs Building (IAB)
420 W. 118th Street
Following up on issues raised at the Scholar & Feminist Conference last April, the Barnard Forum on Migration joins BCRW and the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia in this workshop that will further explore the fundamental connections between gender and global migration, and will consider a broader range of questions. Why do sex ratios in population movements vary so widely across time and place? Why are over four-fifths of Dominican migrants to Spain women, while emigration to Kazakhstan is, according to a recent New York Times article, "emptying whole swaths of Central Asia of young men"? By gathering scholars with a global and comparative perspective, including José Moya, director of the Barnard Forum on Migration, this workshop aspires to uncover recurrent and recognizable patterns that will improve our understanding of the gendered nature of migration.
TRANSNATIONAL EXPRESS: Moving Images and Popular Culture in Muslim Northern Nigeria
A lecture with Abdalla Uba Adamu
Wednesday 11/07
7:00 p.m.
James Room,
4th Floor Barnard Hall
The attention of foreign media on Nigeria coincided with the turn to shari'a, or Islamic law, by many states in the northern part of the country. Abdalla Uba Adamu, professor of science education and curriculum studies and international comparative higher education at Nigeria's Bayero University, examines two aspects of the resulting controversy: first "cultural downloading," or the blatant appropriation of parts of Indian films in Hausa video films; and second, the comedic reinterpretation of America's "War on Terror" and the "clash of civilizations" by Muslim directors in the north who have reenacted the American response to the events of 9/11.
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