From: Office of Cross Disciplinary Studies and Planning
James Madison University will be hosting its first Annual Africana Studies Interdisciplinary Symposium on the 9th of October 2009. The keynote speaker is Prof. Isidore Okpewho, State University of New York Distinguished Professor of Africana Studies, English, & Comparative Literature, Binghamton University and he will be speaking on "The World of African Storytelling." For the full program, see http://www.jmu.edu/cds/africana.html