Prof. Dr. Fatou Sow "Relating Women in African Studies: A Critical View"
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For the opening of its second international conference the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence invited the distinguished Senegalese sociologist, Prof. Dr. Fatou Sow, to speak about "Relating Women in African Studies: A Critical View".
Fatou Sow was introduced by Prof. Dr. Akosua Adomako Ampofo. The event was chaired by Prof. Dr. Ute Fendler, the Cluster's Vice Dean of Internationalisation and Public Engagement.
After Sow’s keynote, the Dean of the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS), Prof. Dr. Martina Drescher, solemnly announced that the distinguished Senegalese scholar, a veritable pioneer of African feminist studies, has been selected as the recipient of the BIGSAS honorary doctorate, making her the second person to be awarded this title to date
To find out more about Prof. Sow receiving the BIGSAS honorary award: https://www.africamultiple.uni-bayreuth.de/en/news/2021/2021-07-14_Fatou_Sow/index.html
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- Prof. Dr. Fatou Sow "Relating Women in African Studies: A Critical View"
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- Conference Modalities 2021
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- October 11, 2021
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- good evening my name is waterfandler i'm the vice dean of internalization internationalization of the cluster africa multiple and it is my great pleasure to be the chair of this first keynote session this evening i will welcome i'm very happy and honored that i can welcome two extraordinary um colleagues uh professor fatouzou from university sheikh hunter job in dakar who was willing and who accepted to give the keynotes uh the keynote address tonight to open our conference and also i would like to welcome our colleague from uh university of ghana before we can start i would just like to say a couple of words about the procedure for this panel as this is the first one also with translation there will be an introduction first by uh then we will start a video because the conference the keynote by professor uh so has been recorded beforehand it is in french and it's subtitled in english afterwards we can have questions and answers professor so will answer in french you can answer you can ask questions in french or in english in the chat that i will read in these languages and at the bottom of your screen you will find the icon for interpretation so you will always have the the direct translation from french to english or english to french um so far about the procedure but now uh i would like i'm not sure if the interpreters already started but uh just to as a beginning [Music] i would like to wish a warm welcome to uh the uh professor of sheikh and eric and we are very honored to have you here amongst us today and we are impatiently waiting for your conference later but first of all i'm going to pass the word to my colleague who's going to introduce this conference to us the introduction to the conference and also to to our keynote speaker professor fatu so thank you very much and welcome thank you very much uh utter for that welcome thank you good evening to colleagues i'm not going to go through all the protocols again i'm sure everybody already feels very very… Read the full text about 8,176 words
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