http://www.syndicatemizzou.org Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:18:02 GMT en-us 40 Center for eResearch Connecting you with the University of Missouri’s innovative research and creative activity http://www.syndicatemizzou.org/images/logo.png 384 80 http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/ugarte/ipod/clip3SpainsrelationAfrica.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/ugarte/ipod/clip3SpainsrelationAfrica.m4v Ugarte's current project: Looking at the relationship between Spain and Africa from the late 19th century through the 21st century. 3 Fri, 12 May 2006 17:01:22 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/ugarte/ipod/clip5AfricaninfluencesSpain.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/ugarte/ipod/clip5AfricaninfluencesSpain.m4v Ugarte discusses the relationship of various ethnic groups in Spain throughout history and how the African "Other" is absorbed in the consciousness of Spaniards. 3 Wed, 17 May 2006 19:49:49 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/ugarte/ipod/clip6HowSpaniardsreadAfrica.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/ugarte/ipod/clip6HowSpaniardsreadAfrica.m4v Ugarte discusses how a better understanding of Africa has become essential to his understanding of Spain. 3 Wed, 17 May 2006 19:52:40 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/gallimore/ipod/gallimore01.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/gallimore/ipod/gallimore01.m4v Gallimore’s early research addressed how African Francophone writers subvert the French canon by drawing from their culture’s oral tradition to create different levels of meaning. In Gallimore’s first book, _L’oeuvre romanesque de Jean-Marie Adiaffi. Le mariage du mythe et de l’histoire: fondement d’un récit pluriel_ (1996), Gallimore examines author Jean-Marie Adiaffi, particularly the novel _La Carte d’Identité_ (1995). The main character in the book, who was a prince before colonization, loses his I.D. card. In the system imposed by the colonial French government, the loss of this I.D. card results in the loss of the man’s name and identity, so it becomes an allegory for the impact of colonization on the identity of the colonized. 3 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:52:52 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/gallimore/ipod/gallimore02.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/gallimore/ipod/gallimore02.m4v Rangira Béa Gallimore’s second book, _L’oeuvre romanesque de Calixthe Beyala: Le renouveau de l’écriture féminine en Afrique francophone sub-saharienne_ (1997), focuses on contemporary Francophone writer Calixthe Beyala. Whereas her first book subverts “the master’s language” by using the French of the slums (_les bidonvilles_) instead of classic French, her second book attempts to subvert patriarchy itself. Providing counterpart to male writers “who idealized the African woman as this beautiful symbol of the earth,” Beyala offers main characters who are forced into prostitution because of sexual abuse or poverty. “It’s very clear in her writing that she’s using the female body discourse. The body in writing is exposed, it is displayed,” explains Gallimore, and indeed Beyala’s tendency to address taboo subjects has created controversy. “It was very shocking for an African woman to write such things,” yet women’s bodies in Beyala’s novels stand as a “symbol of the violated earth, of the bad and the evil” that they have had to endure through their bodies. “You cannot deny the reality of Africa,” responds Beyala to her detractors. 3 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:53:42 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/gallimore/ipod/gallimore03.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/gallimore/ipod/gallimore03.m4v Gallimore has been drawn to Beyala’s novels because of their powerful realism, which deeply resonates with her own experience of growing up in the Congo. “When I first read her book, I was amazed. I was looking at things I had seen myself. It was a reality in Africa we cannot deny; you maybe don’t want it in writing, but it’s a reality for women. Those are the things women have to endure to survive.” 3 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:54:14 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/gallimore/ipod/Gallimore05redone.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/gallimore/ipod/Gallimore05redone.m4v Gallimore speaks of the obstacles to overcome when trying to speak the unspeakable, to comprehend the incomprehensible, that is genocide. Her next book involves literary criticism as well as sociolinguistic and anthropological methods, drawing upon data collected in Rwanda as well as archival data and transcripts of the testimonies of women who survived the genocide. She has been working with an organization in Rwanda called ABASA, a group made of rape survivors. (_Abasa_ is a Kinyrwanda word that means “we are all the same.”) Interviewing women from this group, Gallimore hopes to give voice to their stories and identify their various needs so that Step Up can try to address them. 3 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:55:11 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/folk/ipod/folk01.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/folk/ipod/folk01.m4v Studying traditional healing practices in South Africa in terms of their usefulness in improving human health and treating certain diseases. 3 Sat, 04 Aug 2007 19:01:48 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/folk/ipod/folk05.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/folk/ipod/folk05.m4v Twenty million people have been infected with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the availability of drugs and health care is far below what is needed to stop the pandemic. Responding to this problem, scientists from MU and the University of the Western Cape have joined forces. Their relationship is built on trust and about 400 visits back and forth over the past two decades. 3 Sat, 04 Aug 2007 19:08:30 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/syndicatemizzou/ipod/why-50.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/syndicatemizzou/ipod/why-50.m4v Whether their work seeks to counter domestic violence and ethnic genocide, identify cancer treatments, or employ literature and music to understand humanity, these MU faculty describe in their own words why this work is important to society. 3 Tue, 06 May 2008 15:44:42 GMT