[Peace] Fwd: AFRST Event: HIV/AIDS IN AFRICA: Gender, Agency and
Empowerment, Apr. 24th
Alfred Kagan
akagan at uiuc.edu
Mon Apr 19 11:50:58 CDT 2004
>Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 11:29:01 -0500
>To: african at uiuc.edu
>From: African Studies <jmcgowan at uiuc.edu>
>Subject: AFRST Event: HIV/AIDS IN AFRICA: Gender, Agency and
> Empowerment, Apr. 24th
>
>HIV/AIDS IN AFRICA: Gender, Agency and Empowerment
>April 24, 2004
>
>PROGRAM
>30th Annual Spring Colloquium
>Center for African Studies, University of Illinois
>
>
>Saturday, APRIL 24, 2004
>ROOM 101 INTERNATIONAL STUDIES BUILDING
>
>
>
>Saturday, April 24
>
>8:15 am Welcome Remarks
>Jamie McGowan, Assistant Director, Center for
>African Studies, University of Illinois at
>Urbana-Champaign
>
>Introduction
>Assata Zerai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>Ezekiel Kalipeni, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>
>8:30 Gender, Agency and Empowerment
>Chair: Phillip Thiuri
>
>Agnes Chimbiri, University of Malawi
>“The Condom is an 'Intruder' in Marriage: Evidence from Rural Malawi.”
>
>8:45 M. Bahati Kuumba, Spelman College
>“Wom(b)an Wars: African Women, HIV/AIDS and the
>Struggle for Reproduction Liberation.”
>
>9:00 Njeri Mbugua, Illinois Wesleyan University
>“Traditions That Hurt, Traditions That Heal:
>Inept Adolescent Socialization in Sub-Saharan
>Africa”
>
>9:15 Ami R. Moore and Mark Vosvick, University
>of North Texas, and Foster Amey, Middle
>Tennessee State University
>"Stress, Social Support and Depression in
>Informal Caregivers to People with HIV/AIDS in
>Lomé, Togo.”
>
>9:30 Discussion
>
>9:50 Break
>
>10:00 Sex in Africa and Beyond
>Chair: Jayati Ghosh
>
>Francis Dodoo, The Pennsylvania State University
>and Megan Klein, University of Maryland
>“Cohabitation, Marriage, and Sexual 'Monogamy' in Nairobi, Kenya.”
>
>10:15 Ami Moore and Joseph Oppong, University of North Texas
>“Sexual Risk Behavior Among People Living with HIV/AIDS in Togo.”
>
>10:30 Susan Watkins, University of Pennsylvania
>and Linda Tawfik, Johns Hopkins University
>“Sex in Geneva, Sex in Lilongwe, and Sex in Balaka.”
>
>10:45 Discussion
>
>11:05 Access to Prevention and Treatment
>Chair: Joseph Oppong
>
>Janet W. McGrath, Case Western Reserve University
>“Issues for HIV Prevention Among Women in Uganda.”
>
>11:20 Susan Craddock, University of Minnesota
>“AIDS Vaccines in a Corporate Economy.”
>
>11:35 Lucy Mkandawire-Valhmu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
>“The Challenge of HIV Prevention for Women in
>Malawi: The Case of Domestic Workers and Their
>Experiences of Violence.”
>
>11:50 Richard Djukpen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>"Emerging questions on HIV/AIDS transmission
>channels in Nigeria: A gender discourse towards
>a viable preventive measure."
>
>12:05 pm Discussion
>
>12:25 Lunch Break
>
>1:30 Representation, Resistance and NGO Funding
>Chair: Susan Craddock
>
>Phillip Thiuri, William Paterson University
>"The Role of Women NGOs in HIV/AIDS Control and
>Management in Eastern Africa with Particular
>Emphasis on Kenya.”
>
>1:45 Wembo Lombela, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>“Empowering Agencies to Accelerate the Access to
>AIDS Drugs in Sub-Saharan Africa: Case of the
>Democratic Republic of Congo.”
>
>2:00 Francis Machungo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>“A Critical Analysis of the Representation of
>the AIDS Epidemic in Africa by the U.S. Media.”
>
>2:15 Discussion
>
>2:35 Conceptual Frameworks and Rural Livelihoods
>Chair: Mike Mtika
>
>Jestina Kusina, Newman Kusina, University of
>Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Donald
>Chimanikire, University of Zimbabwe
>"The Impact of AIDS/HIV on Agricultural Production in Southern Africa.”
>
>2:50 Assata Zerai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>"Addressing HIV in Zimbabwe: Militarism or
>African Feminism as Liberatory Method.”
>
>3:05 Winford H. Masanjala, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
>“The Poverty-HIV/AIDS Nexus: A Conceptual
>Framework for Analyzing Rural Livelihoods,
>Gender Relations and Social Safety Net in
>Africa.”
>
>3:20 Discussion
>
>3:40 Break
>
>3:50 Risk of HIV in Malawi
>Chair: Njeri Mbugua
>
>Ezekiel Kalipeni, University of Illinois at
>Urbana-Champaign and Jayati Ghosh, Dominican
>University of California
>“Perspectives on HIV/AIDS in Low Socioeconomic
>Income Areas of Lilongwe, Malawi.”
>
>4:05 Mike Mtika, Eastern University
>“Age/Sex Structure and the AIDS Epidemic in Malawi.”
>
>4:20 Eliya Zulu and Gloria Chepngeno, African
>Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi,
>Kenya
>"Spousal Communication About the Risk of
>Contracting HIV/AIDS in Rural Malawi.”
>
>4:35 Discussion
>
>5:00 pm Concluding Session
>Chair: Ezekiel Kalipeni
>
>Ian E.A. Yeboah, Miami University
>“HIV/AIDS and the Construction of Sub-Saharan
>Africa: Heuristic Lessons for Policy”
>
>5:30 pm Roundtable Discussion and Closing Remarks
>
>“For this generation ...AIDS has brought the
>need for feminism to work for girls and young
>women in moments when they most need to protect
>themselves against a virus that kills.”
>Sisonke Msimang, Coordinator, Southern-African
>based Youth Against AIDS Network
>
>
>“The Global HIV/AIDS epidemic is an
>unprecedented crisis that requires an
>unprecedented response. In particular it
>requires solidarity – between the healthy and
>the sick, between rich and poor, and above all,
>between richer and poorer nations. We have 30
>million orphans already. How many more do we
>have to get, to wake up?”
>– Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary General
>
>
>
>Co-sponsored by:
>Department of Geography
>International Studies and Programs
>Department of Sociology
>U.S. Department of Education
>
>
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>forwarded by: The Center for African Studies,
> University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
--
Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
Africana Unit, Room 328
University of Illinois Library
1408 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801, USA
tel. 217-333-6519
fax. 217-333-2214
e-mail. akagan at uiuc.edu
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