{"id":3784,"date":"2007-10-03T14:06:51","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T18:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesviews.net\/?p=3784"},"modified":"2016-01-18T11:24:05","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T16:24:05","slug":"sociologist-pbs-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2007\/10\/03\/sociologist-pbs-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Sociologist, PBS &#039;History Detectives&#039; investigator to discuss Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2007\/10\/zuberiweb.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"174\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2007\/10\/zuberiweb.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"zuberiweb\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 2007\u201308 Bates College Lecture Series opens with a discussion of Africa in the modern world by sociologist Tukufu Zuberi at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 3, in Bates&#8217; Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Ave.<\/p>\n<p>The event is open to the public at no cost. For more information, please call at 207-786-8293.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Zuberi is Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations, chair of the sociology department and director of the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been a visiting professor at Makerere University in Uganda and at the University of Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania.<\/p>\n<p>An expert in African American history and U.S. society, Zuberi is also a co-host and investigator on the PBS television program &#8220;History Detectives,&#8221; a nationally broadcast series that uncovers mysteries of America&#8217;s past.<\/p>\n<p>He has spearheaded a variety of major research projects including the African Census Analysis Project, which aims to increase the usefulness and availability of census data to promote a better understanding of African demography. He edited <em>Demography of South Africa,<\/em> the first volume of the series <em>A General Demography of Africa.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2007\u201308 Bates College Lecture Series opens with a discussion of Africa in the modern world by sociologist Tukufu Zuberi at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 3, in Bates&#8217; Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Ave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[166,175,224,11009],"tags":[10771,10837,5211],"class_list":["post-3784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities-history","category-justice-poverty","category-society-culture","category-the-college","tag-africa","tag-chase-hall","tag-lecture-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89561,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784\/revisions\/89561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}