Library Workshops
Faculty Lunchbag Series—
Exploring the Research Process: Faculty & Libraries

A monthly series co-sponsored with the Faculty Commons. Experience the ways in which OU faculty creatively use library resources, while they share their most recent discoveries.

Nicholas Creary, History Department

Date: Friday, January 23
Time: Noon - 1 pm
Place: Alden 319 (Friends Room)
Topic: South African Literature, A.C. Jordan & Apartheid.
Professor Creary will speak on A.C. Jordan's groundbreaking Xhosa language novel The Wrath of the ancestors (1940). This book is a study of life in South Africa in the days before Apartheid when racial segregation was very much the law of the land.

Ghirmai Negash, Assistant Professor of English & African Literature

Date: Friday, February 27
Time: noon - 1 pm
Place: Alden 319 (Friends Room)
Topic: Clowning Wisely: Halloween, Laughter, Melancholy and Reverse Ethnography in Zakes Mda's Cion