Hello, everyone.

The African Studies Program would like to invite the members of AAM, and
their friends and families, to our annual spring symposium. This year's
theme is "The Premium on Communication: African Languages in the Visual and
Performing Arts," and this year's program includes a special concert
performance, fashion show and sale by WEREWERE LIKING, Alice Ngwe and
Jeanne Beatrice Zerehoue THIS SATURDAY NIGHT, March 21, at 8 p.m. in
Mitchell Theater (in UW's Vilas Hall).

Other events include Friday night's (March 20) Celebration of African
Languages and Culture, featuring perfomances by UW-students in Arabic,
Hausa, Swahili, and Yoruba language classes at 7 p.m., followed by the
music of DJ Lasisi Ibrahim and dancing until midnight. (These events are in
Union South).

Saturday in Room L140, in the Elvehjem Museum of Art, join us for the
following symposium events:

8-9 a.m.   coffee
9-9:30 a.m. Welcome: Professor Emeritus Jan Vansina
9:30-12 noon Lectures by  Phil Noss ("Languages and Literature in Africa
     from the 20th to the 21st Century: A Translator's Perspective) and
            Harold Scheub ("Story")

2-4 p.m.  Lectures by Kandioura Drame ("Africa and the Musical
   Cross-Currents of the Atlantic")
        Victoria Rovine ("Fashion as Communication: Mudcloth and Ethnicity")
        Syl Cheney-Coker ("The Creative Process: A Writer's Perspective")

All of these events are free and open to the public. We hope you can join us,

Kim Rapp