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SUMMARY:Year of Global Africa:  Eye on Africa - David Coplan, 
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 About the Talk:\n
 	This presentation promotes the 
 role of Africa and Africanists in the broad 
 field of Border Studies, and in particular 
 what Africa contributes to Border Theory beyond 
 empirical case studies. The argument insists 
 that the time when Euro-America provided the 
 theory, while Africa provided a field for 
 data collection, exemplification and conceptual 
 testing has passed. It also involves a claim 
 that the European and North American archive 
 in the field is suffering some enervation, 
 and that African border studies can provide 
 a source of reinvigoration. \n
 	About the Speaker:\n
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 	David 
 B. Coplan is Professor Emeritus 
 in Social Anthropology at the University of 
 The Witwatersrand. He has been researching and 
 writing about South African performing arts 
 and media since 1976. He is the author of numerous 
 publications, including most notably 
 "In Township Tonight! South Africa's Black City 
 Music and Theatre" (1986) - revised, enlarged 
 and published in a second edition in 2007.\n
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 	Prof. 
 Coplan is also a specialist in the 
 ethnographic history and performance culture 
 of the Basotho of southern Africa. His related 
 works include 'In the Time of Cannibals: 
 the Word Music of South Africa's Basotho Migrants' 
 (Chicago 1994) and the film "Songs of the 
 Adventurers" (Constant Spring Productions 
 1986).\n
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 	Prof. Coplan appears frequently on 
 South African radio and television as an arts, 
 culture and media commentator. He has also 
 written extensively for the popular press and 
 a general readership beyond academic publishing. 
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 Sponsor: African Studies Center\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://africa.isp.msu.edu\n
 Contact name: Liz Timbs\n
 Contact email: timbseli@msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 http://eyeonafrica.matrix.msu.edu\n
LOCATION:Room 201, International Center
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