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A PANEL ON
Western Journalism’s
Portrayal of African
Cultures and Crises
 
Tuesday,March 13, 7 pm
2650 Humanities
 
This panel will cover topics such as the AIDS crisis, political turmoil and genocide, as well as the cultures of Africa through the eyes of three UW faculty members.
 
Cindy Haq: Cynthia Haq is a Professor of Family Medicine and Population Health Sciences, Chair of the IHAC, and Director of International Health for the UW Medical School. She has focused her career on improving primary health care, especially for medically underserved populations. She has trained village health workers in Uganda, established family medicine training in Pakistan, served as a consultant to theWorld Health Organization, and worked to improve medical education in the US, Afghanistan, Brazil, China and Iran.
 
Scott Straus: Scott Straus is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies at UW-Madison. Scott teaches classes on genocide, violence, human rights, and African politics. His book on the Rwandan genocide, The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, andWar in Rwanda,won the 2006 Award for Excellence in Political Science and Government from the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers.
 
Jo Ellen Fair: Jo Ellen Fair is professor of Journalism & Mass Communication and also serves as faculty director for Chadbourne Residential College. Fair joined the UW faculty in 1989. She earned her Ph.D. in mass communications from Indiana University in 1988.Much of Fair’s research has examined U.S. media images of conflicts in Africa. This work is concerned with how American notions of race shaped the telling of African conflicts and catastrophes.
 


 
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"Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, 
I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them."
WALDEN by Henry David Thoreau – 1854

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