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10/24/05

AFRICAN STUDIES SCHOLAR TO SPEAK AT ST. LAWRENCE

CANTON - Obioma Nnaemeka, a professor of French, women's studies and African American studies at Indiana University, will deliver the C.L.R. James Lecture in African Studies at St. Lawrence University on Thursday, October 27, at 8 p.m. in the auditorium of Hepburn Hall, Room 218. Her talk, a St. Lawrence Sesquicentennial event, is titled "Re-Imagining the Diaspora" and is open to the public, free of charge.

Director of the women's studies program at Indiana University, Nnaemeka is also the president of the Association of African Women Scholars. She is co-editor of Engendering Human Rights: Cultural and Socio-Economic Realities in Africa (2005); editor of Female Circumcision and the Politics of Knowledge: African Women in Imperialist Discourses (2005); editor of Feminisms, Sisterhood and Power: From Africa to the Diaspora (1998); and editor of The Politics of (M)Othering: Womanhood, Identity and Resistance in African Literature (1997).

A graduate of the University of Nigeria, Université de Grenoble (France) and the University of Minnesota, Nnaemeka has taught at the University of Nigeria, the University of Minnesota and the College of Wooster, Ohio. A former Rockefeller Humanist-in-Residence at the University of Minnesota, she has been awarded grants by a number of organizations, including the MacArthur Foundation.

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