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September 20, 2005
Kelly M. Askew, associate professor of anthropology and African studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, will be the guest speaker at the Ninth Annual Freshman Honors Colloquium’s Scholar’s Symposium on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 23 and 24 at Indiana University South Bend.
She will present a public lecture at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the second floor Alumni Room, Administration Building. The topic will be “Musical Images and Imaginations: Tanzanian Music Videos.”
The lecture is free an open to the public.
Askew is taking part in a two-day Freshman Honors Colloquium that will examine art, aesthetics, culture, gender and power, African post socialist transformations in Tanzania and adventures and anthropology.
Askew’s research and teaching specialties include the anthropology of music, performance, media, cultural politics, nationalism, post socialism, Tanzania, East Africa, Swahili studies, the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution and the East African diasporas.
A native of Los Angeles, she received her bachelor’s degree from Yale University in anthropology and music. She earned a master’s degree and doctorate in anthropology from Harvard University.
Before joining the faculty at Michigan, she was an assistant professor of anthropology at Indiana University Bloomington.
For additional information contact Brenda Knowles, director of the honors program, at (574) 520-4355.
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