Opening the Bodies Living Through Violence Conference/Academic Workshop, Professor of International Relations STEPHEN CHAN will give the Keynote Address on Friday, April 15 at 6PM at the Benton Museum. The workshop will take place the following day in the Student Union of the University of Connecticut – Storrs Campus.
OPENING RECEPTION AND KEYNOTE FLYER
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
Stephen Chan was awarded an OBE for “services to Africa and higher education” in the summer of 2010, alongside receiving the 2010 Eminent Scholar in Global Development award of the International Studies Association. Currently Professor of International Relations and a member of the University of London Senate, Chan was the Foundation Dean of Law and Social Sciences at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and recently served as Dean for a second time. See www.stephen-chan.com/international/ for additional biographical information.
Professor Chan has published 27 books on international relations and more than 200 articles and reviews in the academic and specialist press, as well as over 100 journalistic feature articles. His books include Robert Mugabe: A Life of Power and Violence, Kaunda and Southern Africa: Image and Reality in Foreign Policy, and Citizen of Africa: Conversations with Morgan Tsvangirai. His most recent work is The End of Certainty: Towards a New Internationalism.
The Keynote Address will cover the history of violence and its thought in parts of the Middle East, and Chan’s online lecture on YouTube may serve as an introduction for this vast and complex subject.
Chan participated in the transition to independence of Zimbabwe, the reconstruction of Uganda after the fall of Idi Amin, and also advised and trained government ministries in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho and Kenya. He established a consortium that trained the Eritrean Ministry of Foreign Affairs immediately before and after independence in 1993. He was also part of a consortium that trained the parliamentarians and ministers of post-Dergue Ethiopia from 1998-9. From 2006-7 he was a member of the Africa-China-US Trilateral Dialogue, an effort to establish a common set of principles to help govern the emerging trade wars involving the three continents.
The Bodies Living Through Violence Conference/Workshop is organized by Asian and Asian American Studies Institute (Cathy Schlund-Vials) and Department of Political Science (Christine Sylvester) with support from the William Benton Museum of Art (Nancy Stula, Director). CONTACT Professor Cathy Schlund-Vials, cathy.schlund-vials@uconn.edu for more information.
On Friday, March 24 at 7PM, the interdisciplinary workshop “Re-Reading, Re-Thinking, and Re-Seeing Comics: Language, Cognition, and Culture,” which builds on the discussions facilitated by the UConn Graphic Narrative Initiative (UGNI) co-directed by Cathy Schlund-Vials and Harry van der Hulst (Professor of Linguistics) will open with a Keynote Address by Hillary Chute entitled “Time, Space, and Reading the Visual in the Graphic Novel” and an Opening Reception hosted by the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute (Homer Babbidge Library, Room 4-153).
