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Papers Presented at the First Global Partners Symposium in Nairobi Kenya

Jonathan Scott Lee delivers his address at the Opening Ceremonies, July 4, 2000

The greatest challenge and the greatest benefit of the Symposium was the diversity of disciplines and academic cultures represented there. Along with the 22 participants from the US, dozens of faculty, staff and administrators from the University of Nairobi participated in varying ways in the Symposium. (Indeed, the event could never have taken place without the extraordinary efforts of our Kenyan colleagues).

At present, we have the full texts of papers presented by the American participants online. The papers presented by the Kenyan paricipants will be added in the comings weeks, along with a full schedule of presentations and more images from the events that took place on campus.

Seminar Participants in the Vice Chancellor's Parlor, where most of the Symposium took place.

Papers Presented by Faculty from the US

Mary Bruce (English, Monmouth College)
"Differing African and American Perspectives: Their Impact on the Liberal Arts"

Clifton Crais (History, Kenyon College)
"The Other Conversion: Alternative Visions of Nationhood in South Africa"

Carol Summers (History, University of Richmond)
"Whips and Women: Forcing Change in Uganda in the 1920s"

Sonja Darlington (English, Beloit College)
"A Cause for Redefining Coming of Age Stories in African Literature: Problems Between Educational Aims and Social, Political, and Economic Values in African Societies"

Jonathan Scott Lee (Philosophy, Colorado College)
"From the Post-Colonial to the Global: the Testament of Julius Nyerere" (keynote address)

Rick Peterson, (Environmental Studies, Antioch College)
"Conservation amid Change: Community, Cultures and Values in Congo's Rainforests"

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Papers Presented at the First Global Partners Symposium in Nairobi Kenya