[Graduate-research-list] FW: CCWS seminar reminder

[Alison Scott]

Alison Scott
Postgraduate Secretary
Department of English Studies
01786 467510

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From: David Richards 
Sent: 06 April 2008 12:27
To: Alison Scott; Marta More
Subject: CCWS seminar reminder




Centre of Commonwealth Studies
Postcolonial Visiting Speakers Programme 

Spring Semester 2008

Tuesday 8th April. 

Karin Barber
(CWAS, Birmingham University)

Print culture and the reading public in 1920s Lagos

5pm Room B2

Karin Barber did her first degree in English before going on to study
social anthropology at University College London and doing a PhD at the
University of Ife, Nigeria, where she researched the role of oral poetic
performance in everyday life. She has also worked on Yoruba popular
theatre, and joined a travelling theatre company, performing in
improvised Yoruba-language plays, both on stage and on television. Karin
was President of the African Studies Association and she is the editor
of Africa the journal of the International African Institute. In 2003
she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Karin has been given a
Yoruba chieftaincy title, and is the Iyamoye of Okuku. 

Contact: David Richards (david.richards at stir.ac.uk)