BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:15675-bbecc3748c05814f56db8c18c837787c@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260710T124620Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250809T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250809T110000 SUMMARY:African Studies Global Virtual Forum: Decoloniality and Southern Epistem ologies—Andre Nzunguta Siamundele DESCRIPTION:\nN. Andre Siamundele has experience teaching French languag e courses\, college and honors seminars on African cinema\, Postcolonial studies\, and Francophone literature and culture.  He has published sev eral articles on the question of “Identity in Africa and the Diaspora”. He also has extensive experience in the area of education abroad. He hol ds a doctoral degree in French and Francophone studies from Yale Univers ity. He has served as co-chair of  World Languages Academic Transformati on Team at University of Maine in Farmington. He is now a faculty member at Lincoln University.  His research focuses on Afro-francophone Post-c olonial images with an interdisciplinary approach that includes areas su ch as culture\, language\, literature\, history\, and politics.\n\nThe l iterary works and life of V. Y. Mudimbe exemplify the concept of écart. This polar giant of the African literary world is a key for reading and understanding both African literature and discourse. His literary style and lifestyle and the universe that he describes serve as a microcosm of the present-day African world. His works reveal and embellish perceptio ns and notions (both real and imagined) about post-colonial Central Afri ca. Mudimbe understands the difficulty in being both African and a Weste rn intellectual. His literary style and content mirror his own existence and the state of central Africa itself\, which he describes as an --éca rt\, or existential gap. This identity crisis\, the inability (or\, unwi llingness) to accept a singular identity is a dominant motif in Mudimbe' s literature\, life and in central Africa.\n\nFor more details: https:// events.la.psu.edu/event/afr-global-virtual-forum-andre-nzunguta-siamunde le/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

N. Andre Siamun dele has experience teaching French language courses, college and honors seminars on African cinema, Postcolonial studies, and Francophone liter ature and culture.  He has published several articles on the question of “Identity in Africa and the Diaspora”. He also has extensive experience in the area of education abroad. He holds a doctoral degree in French a nd Francophone studies from Yale University. He has served as co-chair o f  World Languages Academic Transformation Team at University of Maine i n Farmington. He is now a faculty member at Lincoln University.  His res earch focuses on Afro-francophone Post-colonial images with an interdisc iplinary approach that includes areas such as culture, language, literat ure, history, and politics.

The literary works and life of V. Y. M udimbe exemplify the concept of écart. This polar giant of the African l iterary world is a key for reading and understanding both African litera ture and discourse. His literary style and lifestyle and the universe th at he describes serve as a microcosm of the present-day African world. H is works reveal and embellish perceptions and notions (both real and ima gined) about post-colonial Central Africa. Mudimbe understands the diffi culty in being both African and a Western intellectual. His literary sty le and content mirror his own existence and the state of central Africa itself, which he describes as an --écart, or existential gap. This ident ity crisis, the inability (or, unwillingness) to accept a singular ident ity is a dominant motif in Mudimbe's literature, life and in central Afr ica.

For more details: https://events.la.psu .edu/event/afr-global-virtual-forum-andre-nzunguta-siamundele/

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