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Announcing 2012 IFDS Online Lecture Series
Online Lectures consist of an hour talk by a lecturer followed by 30 minutes for questions and discussion. The speakers are international scholars scheduled to present lectures during summer 2012 seminars.
Lectures
Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 1 pm EST
Hybridity and Safety: The Regrouping and Resistance of Traditional African Religions in Bahia, Brazil with Sabrina Gledhill
Program Description: This talk focuses on how traditional African religions (specifically orisha worship) came to the state of Bahia in northeastern Brazil and regrouped to confront the challenges of slavery and religious persecution, developing into religious and cultural expressions that are uniquely Brazilian while maintaining strong links with their African roots. In addition to discussing the past, present and structure of the religion and religious communities known as terreiros—particularly those of the Yoruba-speaking Ketu "nation"—I will discuss the cosmology of the religion and some of the main divinities, and how aspects of their worship have impacted Bahia's cultural life.
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Sabrina Gledhill is a British scholar of Bahian culture and history who grew up in Puerto Rico and has lived in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil since 1986. She has an MA in Latin American Studies from UCLA and is currently a doctoral candidate in Ethnic and African Studies at the UFBA Center for Afro-Asian Studies (CEAO/UFBA). Her presentations on Bahia focus on the “emic” perspective – the way Bahians view their own culture and cultural expressions.
Learn more about the 2012 Brazil IFDS, Salvador da Bahia: Identity, Race and Culture in the Afro-Brazilian Heartland.
Tuesday, February 28th at 1 pm EST
French Notions of Disability with Myriam Winance
Myriam Winance is a research scholar with the INSERM (National Institute for Health and Medical Research) and the CERMES (Center for Medical and Health Research). Her research goal is to analyze what “a disabled person” is in French society, by analyzing the evolution of the notion of disability through discourses and processes of care (on a macro level) and the analysis of concrete practices and experience (on a micro level). She has also launched an ethnographic and interview-based research project on the wheel chair, examining how using a wheelchair transforms a person, and how norms of action and relationship are mobilized, questioned, and reinterpreted.
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Read a transcript of the lecture and discussion.
Find reference citations for the lecture.
Learn more about the 2012 France IFDS, Disability in Situation: French Notions of Disability and Difference.
Using Live Meeting
The IFDS Online Lecture Series will be conducted using Microsoft® Office Live Meeting service. We recommend you log in 30 minutes prior to the scheduled meeting time. We also recommend that users who have not previously installed LiveMeeting use the web access option, as it is fastest. Microsoft Office Live Meeting works best on PCs.
To check into the meeting:
1) Click here.
2) Create a display name. Please note that no entry code is required for this meeting.
3) Join the meeting! Please note that LiveMeeting utilizes audio and not video conferencing.
Computer Audio: To use computer audio, you need speakers and a microphone, or a headset.
Note: This lecture will be broadcast using a real-time captioning service. A written transcript and audio recording of the lecture will be posted online following the event.
Using Real-Time Captioning:
To access the captioning simply click on the following URL a few minutes before the start time:
http://www.streamtext.net/text.aspx?event=CIEE
- If you see a message on the screen "Event is not active," click refresh.
- The event will become active a few minutes before the scheduled start time, so if you click the URL early you may need to refresh before the start time.
- After clicking on the above link, please enter your name next to "Chat Name" and click enter. This is the chat box and it allows you to communicate directly with your remote CART writer similar to "Instant Messaging".
- Please note the screen settings listed across the top of the captioning screen. Please feel free to adjust the Font Size, Font Type, and Background Colors to find a combination that you feel comfortable with. I recommend going to "Themes" and clicking the drop down menu and selecting "High Contrast".
If you have questions about the Online Lectures or IFDS in general, send a message to ifds@ciee.org or call to speak with a staff member at 207.553.4044.