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 Sudan:The Land and the People New Book and Program
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Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center
41 second Street, Cambridge MA 02141
617 577 1800
http://www.cmacusa.org/
Sudan: The Land and the People
Photography by Michael Freeman
Exhibition Dates: September 14 - October 20, 2005
Reception: Thursday, October 6, 6-8pm
with the photgrapher and co-authors
Michael Freeman , photpgrapher
And co-authors Victoria Butler and Timothy Carney, former US Ambassador to Sudan
SUDAN reception and program October 6, 2005 6:00 to 9:00 PM
Reception and book signing: 6 - 8 pm, Tim Carney, Victoria Butler, Michael Freeman
Program: The Sudan-Revealed, 8:00 - 9:00 pm
Donna M. Keefe, CMAC - Welcome and Introduction of Vicky Butler and Tim Carney
Tim Carney and Victoria Butler- Recognition of guests (VIP's) and thank yous
Donna- Introduction of Willard Johnson, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, MIT as Moderator
Dr. Willard R. Johnson is MIT Professor Emeritus of Political Science. During thirty-two years (1964-1996) of teaching and research at MIT, he specialized in topics relating to African studies, comparative and international politics (especially as regards poor or developing countries), and promotion of development in American inner-city areas. His research and activism has sought to foster the achievement of equity, freedom, economic and political development by historically victimized peoples.
He is a founder of and a Senior Advisor to the Boston Pan-African Forum Inc., which fosters public education about and engagement with the African world. He was one of the founders and served on the national Boards of Directors of TransAfrica and the TransAfrica Forum. He also founded and led the TransAfrica Boston Chapter and its "Free South Africa Movement" campaign that was instrumental in making the banning of South African Kruggerrand coins part of the national U.S. anti-apartheid agenda. He helped to establish and/or lead a number of other organizations that have fostered among professional scholars as well as the general public a sense of activism and responsibility for African liberation and development, and for U.S. foreign policies and actions respecting underdeveloped countries that are more mutually beneficial.
Willard Johnson, Intro to panel program and intro of panelists:
Panelists:
· Khalid Kodi, Sudanese, BFA, College of Fine Arts, Khartoum, Sudan; MFA Painting, Massachusetts College of Art. He is on the faculty of Boston College and Mass Art.
Awards/Prizes: Community Works, Artist for Social Change Award, Boston.
Career:Since 1992 Art educator, Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, Boston. Since 1995 adjunct professor, Boston College and, since 1997, adjunct lecturer, Brown University. Art instructor, Art Institute of Boston, 1995.
Professor Kodi will address the issues of cultural diversity and will expand the discussion of linking to the images in the exhibition and the accompanying book. An accomplished artist-who’s work is often political. Kodi would like to see more politics in art and at one time stated, "The world is moving into different times, and art makes people aware of that." Professor Kodi is currently on the faculty of Boston College and Mass Art. He has been in the US for 13 years.
· Ambassador Timothy Carney, co-author of Sudan: The Land and the People. Timothy Carney served as the US Ambassador to Sudan from 1995 through 1997. Over the past three decades, he has served as US Ambassador to Haiti, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Stat e for South Asia, and Director for Asian Affairs on the National Security Council Staff. He was the senior American on the UN Peace Keeping Mission to Cambodia, and worked as Special Political Advisor to the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in Somalia and in South Africa.
· Elfatih A.B. Eltahir, Ph.D., Sudanese and faculty member MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Born in Omdurmar, Sudan, a city in Kartoum, Professor Eltahir has been living the in US for the past 17 years.
The format is to have each participant give a 10 min. presentation with a Q&A to follow. The intent is to look at the whole of Sudan and the complexities, diversity, peace process, and inevitably Darfur. What we hope to accomplish is to see a broader view of the Sudan, which the book and show deliver. You can go to www.cmacusa.org for information.
Note:
I am hoping that Adieu Riak will join us. We spoke briefly and she was interested in participating,, but I do not have a confirmation.
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Khalid Kodi
فيس بوك
تويتر
انستقرام
يوتيوب
بنتيريست