WSU - Humanities

Brent Edwards (English, Rutgers University)
Author of The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism (Harvard University Press, 2003)
"Langston Hughes and the Futures of Diaspora"

Obioma Nnaemeka (French, Women's Studies, and African-American and African Diaspora Studies, Indiana University)
Author/editor of nine books, including Engendering Human Rights: Cultural and Socio-economic Realities in Africa and the African Diaspora (co-ed. Palgrave/St. Martin’s Press, 2005)
"Humanizing Globalization"

Special Guest Speaker:

Christopher Southgate (Theology, University of Exeter, U.K.)
Visiting WSU under the aegis of the Office for International Programs, his most recent book of poetry is entitled Easing the Gravity Field: Poems of Science and Love (Shoestring Press, 2006)
"Poetry, Globalization, and the Ambiguous Role of Science"

Wayne State Speakers include:

Catherine Bogosian, Assistant Professor of History - "Labor, Obligation and Empire: Public Works in Colonial French West Africa"

Robert Burgoyne, Professor of English - "The Epic Film in World Culture: Gladiator"

Sarika Chandra, Assistant Professor of English - "The End(s) of Travel: Re-Assessing Americanism in the Age of Globalization"

Beth Kangas, Lecturer of Anthropology - "Valuing Life and Death in a Global World: Technological Medicine in Yemen and Arab Detroit"

Richard Marback, Associate Professor of English - "What Place the Taalmonument in the New South Africa? South African Language Policy and the Culture of Language"

Gordon B. Neavill, Associate Professor of Library and Information Science - "Scholarly Communication in the Global Digital Environment"

Frederic Pearson, Director of the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies & Vidya Ramaswamy, Research Associate for the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies - "The Impact of Immigration Patterns in Local Community Schools"

Michael Scrivener, Professor of English - "Habermas and the Cosmopolitan Ideal"