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Lives of Women & Chickens in Botswana: Alice Hovorka at Rural History Roundtable

On Thursday, October 31st Alice J. Hovorka appears at the Rural History Roundtable: “The Lives of Women and Chickens in Botswana: Intersections, Hierarchies, and Everyday Lives." The talk takes place at 2:30 -4:30 pm in 308 MacKinnon Building at the University of Guelph main campus. Dr. Alice J. Hovorka is an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Guelph. Her research focuses on contemporary human-environment relations in Southern Africa and features animals as central actors in human affairs. All welcome!

SOFAM Visiting Artists & Speakers presents Sonya Schonberger

Berlin artist Sonya Schönberger works in video, photography andinstallation to explore questions of memory, identity and trauma especiall y in relation to the impact of WWII on several generations of Germans. In a recent work, she met eyewitnesses from the time of World War II and conduct ed personal interviews with them, exploring the cultural memory of the Germ an society. She followed these witnesses and memory-keepers into the everyda y life of the Third Reich: onto the battlefields, in prison camps, into de vastated cities, on their escapes and into their after-lives.

SOFAM Visiting Artists & Speakers Presents Sonya Schonberger

Berlin artist Sonya Schönberger works in video, photography andinstallation to explore questions of memory, identity and trauma especiall y in relation to the impact of WWII on several generations of Germans. In a recent work, she met eyewitnesses from the time of World War II and conduct ed personal interviews with them, exploring the cultural memory of the Germ an society. She followed these witnesses and memory-keepers into the everyda y life of the Third Reich: onto the battlefields, in prison camps, into de

The Ethics and Politics of Food presents Adam Sneyd & Alexander Legw egoh "Food Security Perscpectives in Central Africa"

Everyone Welcome. Perspectives abound on how members of the Ce ntral African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) - including Cameroon,Central African Republic, Chad, Congo-Brazzaville, Equatorial Guinea andGabon - can transcend food security challenges and threats. Drawing on rese arch conducted on 4 recent field visits to Cameroon and upon an extensive co ntent analysis, Sneyd and Legwegoh show how perspectives on the requisites for food security in CEMAC differ, and why these divergent perspectives mat ter.

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