NGUGI:  DECOLONIZING THE MIND
a celebration

March 10, 2005
University of California, Irvine

Program

1:00 p.m. | 135 Humanities Instructional Building | Session I

Welcome:   Gabriele Schwab, UC Irvine

Reflections:  A Panel Discussion

Introduction and Chair: David Theo Goldberg, UCHRI and UC Irvine

David Lloyd, University of Southern California
Patricia Penn Hilden, UC Berkeley
Timothy J. Reiss, New York University

2:45 p.m. | 137 Humanities Instructional Building | Light Refreshments

3:15 p.m. | 161 Humanities Hall | Session II

Interventions:  Women and Violence in the Postcolony

Introduction and Chair:  Philomena Essed, University of Amsterdam and UC Irvine

Njeeri wa Ngugi, UC Irvine
Mukoma wa Ngugi, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Angela Davis, UC Santa Cruz

4:30 p.m. | 137 Humanities Instructional Building | Light Refreshments

5:00 p.m. | 161 Humanities Hall | Session III

Declarations:  An Evening of Poetry

Sonia Sanchez
Simon Ortiz
Gabriele Schwab
Fred Moten
Manu Schwab
Ngugi wa Thiong'o