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Commemorative Roller Print of Basilique
Notre Dame de la Paix, Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire
Printed at Utexi, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast),
1990
Industrial roller print on cotton
H x W: 114 x 175 cm (45 x 69 in.)
Private Collection
Photographed by Lindsay Kromer
A
Whole Semester Full of
Exciting Events & Activities
International Conference, African Theatre Play, African Art Exhibit, Cultural Attractions, Film Series, Lectures, Residencies, and much, much more ......!
Overall Goals:
With an array of campus- and community-wide activities and events, WE
INTEND TO
- ACCENTUATE many of the fascinating aspects of African cultures that are all too often ignored in the Western media
- HIGHLIGHT the rich cultural ties and interrelationships between African and non-African cultures world-wide and over time
- COUNTERACT stereotypical portrayals that reduce Africa to a site of famine, disease, ethnic turmoil, and warfare and simultaneously equate African cultures with primitivism and backwardness,
- PROMOTE a greater understanding and appreciation for African cultures and their interrelatedness with non-African cultures world-wide and over time
- CELEBRATE African cultural expression and its interconnectedness
with non-African cultures though art, literature, and performance.
Background:
The idea to organize an Africa-Semester at the University of Tennessee
is an outgrowth of the Council on Intellectual and Cultural Expression
(ICE) 2001 Faculty Collaborative Workshop's initiatives to encourage interdisciplinary
collaboration. It is also, in part, engendered by the Faculty Senate's
resolution (May 7, 2001) affirming the University of Tennessee's commitment
to international research and educational projects and to an environment
of inter- and cross-disciplinary initiatives.
Interdisciplinary Africa Semester Committee at the University of Tennessee
- William Dewey
Art History
- Fatima El-Tayeb
Historian, Scholar-in-Residence with the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures
- Leslie Gay
School of Music
- Rosalind I. J. Hackett
Department of Religious Studies
Distinguished Professor in the Humanities
- Carolyn R. Hodges
Head of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures
Chair of the Comparative Literature Program
- Stefanie Ohnesorg
Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures
- Jane Redmond
Assistant Vice Provost for Student Affairs
Director of the Black Cultural Center
- Amadou Sall
African and African American Studies