French Film Series

B.B. Comer 257

Sembene! (2015) Documentary film focusing on the life of writer and director Ousmane Sembene (1923-2007), considered to be the Father of African Cinema

French Film Series

B.B. Comer 257

Trop noire pour être française?/ Too Black to be French? (2015) Director and Protagonist Isabelle Boni explores the cracks in  the French universalist ideal.

Reception in honor of Malian writer, Safiatou Ba

205 Gorgas Library

You are invited to reception in honor of Malian writer, Safiatou Ba on Thursday, November 11 from 4-5:30 p.m. in the Camellia Room of Gorgas Library (use the main entrance across from Denny Chimes; Camellia is to the right).   Safiatou Ba is the author of five creative works that include novels and short stories. She

AIZEN/University of Alabama International Conference

Call for Papers For the 30th Anniversary AIZEN International Literature, Film, and Interdisciplinary Studies Conference in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2022 AIZEN/University of Alabama International Conference: “Émile Zola, Naturalism, and Protest” Émile Zola, lifelong champion of minorities, workers, and the poor, wrote muckraking novels which sought to further the cause of social equality and to effect real