Africana Studies : Africana Studies Events

The A.S.P.I.R.E. Lecture Series
presents
Jeff Johnson
"Everything I'm Not Made Me Everything I Am"

Tuesday, September 15, 2009
3:00 - 4:30 p.m.   SU 2592

• An award-winning journalist, social activist, and political commentator
• Managing Editor and Chief Correspondent for BET's The Truth with Jeff Johnson
• Commentator on Tom Joyner Morning Show

Study Abroad Trip 2009

Africana Studies organized to take UT students to South Africa on a three-week study abroad experience in July 2009.  South Africa is an important multiracial and young democracy that has shown the world how to reconcile differences and advance society.  Experiencing South Africa offers an interesting prism through which to look back at America’s multiracial democracy.  In South Africa you will feel the cross currents of both African and Western societies.  Students will come to appreciate the country’s extraordinary beauty and the numerous and unique ways it contributes to the global economy. This study abroad experience provides students with a big platform to enrich their view of global society. 

• In 2009, the Study Abroad group flew to Johannesburg, South Africa where they visited the University of Witwatersrand and received lectures from members of their faculty.
• The group also visited the nearby city of Sandton which together with Johannesburg make up the financial nerve center of South Africa. 
• While in Pretoria which is the nation’s executive capital, the historic capital grounds, prominent museums in the area, and the University of South Africa (UNISA), one of the world’s largest universities, were visited.
• Local cutural events such as a safari in Kruger National Park and a visit to Sun City resorts were made as well.
  In Cape Town, students received lectures from several University of Cape Town professors. UCT is one of the premier research universities on the African continent. 
• A  visit to Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela and others who fought against apartheid were imprisoned, and the magnificent Table Mountain completed the trip. 

Oct. 11-14, 2009
Johannesburg, South Africa

Since 1954, the International Solar Energy Society (ISES) has been actively engaged in advancing the science, technology, policy and education needed for the efficient use of renewable energy and its practical applications.

ISES is a multi-faceted, global membership organization with indivudual and corporate members in more than 110 countries and Sections in over 50 countries. As a UN recognized NGO, ISES is a modern, future-oriented global network with a simple and urgent vision: "Rapid transition to a renewable energy world." 

Goals of the Society include:

• Towards a Sustainable World: Encouraging the use of renewable energy everywhere, through appropriate technology, scientific excellence, social responsibility, and global communication.
  
• Creating a Global Community:
  Bringing together industries, individuals and institutions in support of renewable energy technologies - through communication, co-operation, support and exchange.

• Supporting Development:
     Applying practical projects, technology     transfer, education, training and support to
  the issue of global energy development.
  
• Supporting the Science of Solar Energy: Stimulating and encouraging both fundamental and applied research in solar energy.
  
• Contributing to Growth:
  Ensuring individual and community growth through support of private enterprise and empowerment in the area of renewable energy.

Visit www.ises.org for more information about ESES.