CHINYERE G. OKAFOR:
2009 “Nigeria in 10 Minutes” Power
Point
presentation at the annual Cultural Event organized by the Nigerian
Association
of Wichita, October 10.
2009.
“Feminisms
in
2009.
“Omumu
Concept: A Pro-Feminist Lesson from Achebe’s Things Fall
Apart.” Women
In Africa and the African Diaspora (WAAD) conference, August 2-8.
2008.
“Making the Poet Making Poetry: The
Process of Poetic
Writing.” The
2008 “Heroes from the Margins: Stories of
Athletes
who challenged Racism at the 1936 Berlin
Olympics.”
2008 Poetry
2008 Poetry Reading, African American Museum,
Wichita, KS May 15 and May 21
2007 “Instructor Positionality
and Classroom dynamics” Tilford conference,
2007 “Engaging Race in Women’s
Studies’ Classes.”
Conference on Teaching Gender in 21st Century. The
2007 “What is Global? What is
Vernacular? English
Education in African and African Diaspora Women’s Writing.”
2007 “From Prairies of
2007 “On love, war, and place - from
the poet’s
diary.”
2007 “Wole
Soyinka: The
Energy Behind Influences” Featured Speech at the Symposium
on Soyinka: the Man, the Playwright, the Novelist, the
2006
“Global Perspective, African Views: Perceptions of
2006 “Female Power:
Corner Stone or Central Subject in Igbo Mask Performance.” Paper
presented at
the African Literature Conference.
2006 Women In
Higher Education conference.
2005
“Global Encounters: The
Case of Agbogho-mmonwu Mask and Barbie Doll.” Paper
presented at the Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies
conference,
2005 “Femininity and Globalization.”
Power Point
Presentation at
the
Anthropology Colloquium,
2005 Empire
or Interdependence - A
multidisciplinary, international conference on the Post-Cold War world.
2004 Talk titled, “International and
Cross-Cultural Dialogue Across the Atlantic” and facilitation of
a conversation
between students of “Women In Africa” class (WSU) and Dr.
Chioma Opara and her
students in Portharcourt (
2004 “Popular Culture Cross-Culturally:
A
Comparative Study of Igbo Agbogho-mmonwu and American Barbie.”
Paper presented
at the African Literature Conference.
2004
Guest
Speaker at the Annual Charitable Event by Nigerian Women Association.
Olive
Tree Banquet Hall.
2004 Panel
Discussant, “Dances with Hip Hop:
Debate about female identity.”
2004 Lecture,
“Multi-Nation, Multi-culture, and One
Country –
2003 “Transgressions: Stories of an
African Woman In America,” Story read at the Southern California
Writers’
conference.
2003 Panel
Speaker. International Women’s Day
Celebration,
2003 Facilitated
Dr. Opara’s visit from University
of Science and Technology, Portharcourt, Nigeria to talk at WSU on
“Bellowing
In Silence: African Women and the Struggle for Identity.” June 3.
2002 Keynote
Speaker: International Women’s Day Banquet. Talk title: “If
I Narrate What they Are Doing To Me: How national and global political
economic
policies play out in the lives of African women and children.”
2002 “The Voice of Silence in African
Women’s
Writing and Gender Action.” Paper presented at Women’s
Studies’ Retreat, Spruce
Point, May 16-17.
2002
“An African Woman in A Women’s Studies Class.” Story
read at Maine Women’s
Consortium Retreat, May 24-25.
2002
Keynote Speaker,
2002
Designed
and facilitated Faculty Seminar Series on Gender, Race, and Pedagogy
for
University of Southern Maine faculty and staff. Sept. 27, Oct. 18, Nov.
15, and
Dec. 13.
2002
Designed and facilitated a seminar and workshop on “Cultural
Perspectives in
the Classroom,” for the College of Nursing, University of
Southern Maine,
November 7.
2002
Panel Discussant, “The Role of Higher Education in Globalization:
A Cooperative
Knowledge or Resistance?”
2002
Talk: “Ritual Authority, Communication, and Empowerment of Women
in African Masking.”
2002
Interview on WMPG’s “big
Talk” by Wendy
Hazzard and Michael Hillard about my poetry and plays. February 21.
2002
“Poetry Reading on the Eve of St. Valentine’s Day: Poems of
Love and Life”
Luther Bonney Auditorium,
2001 Oral Poetry Performance and Introduction
of the
Convocation Scholar, Nobel Prize Laureate, Wole Soyinka, at his talk
and opening
of the University of Maine Convocation. September 25.
2000
“Break the Silence: Women Writers
of
1999
“Contemporary African Literature
and Beauvoirism.” Colloque International, Cinqauntenaire Du
Deuxieme Sexe,
Ministere de la Culture,
1998 Poems - Earth’s Bed
Chamber. Instituto Emilia-Romangna,
2009 Directed a play, “Scramble for Africa
2” by
C. Okafor, performed by students of
Wichita State University, October 30.
2008 Supervised students’ rehearsals of
excerpts from,
The New Toyi Toyi, and presentation
at WSU, March 28.
2002
Initiated and facilitated the opening of
a branch of Women In Need (WINI) in
2002 Organized African women dancers that
performed
at the Annual Women’s History Month Celebration.
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