{"id":42657,"date":"2011-05-03T14:49:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T18:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=42657"},"modified":"2015-03-27T13:25:03","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T17:25:03","slug":"african-cartoons-morristown-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/05\/03\/african-cartoons-morristown-landing\/","title":{"rendered":"May 4 speakers look at political cartoons and globalization&#039;s impacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/05\/olaniyan_teju_portr05.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/05\/olaniyan_teju_portr05-199x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"Teju Olaniyan\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The interpretation of African political cartoons and the impacts of globalization on working people are at issue in two presentations Wednesday, May 4. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/views\/2011\/04\/27\/tejumola-olaniyan\/\">Tejumola Olaniyan<\/a>, a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, presents the lecture <em>On Bigness: Wealth, Power and Body Size in African Political Cartoons<\/em> at 4:15 p.m. in Bates College&#8217;s Keck Classroom, Pettengill Hall (G52).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Presented in conjunction with the &#8220;Considering Africa&#8221; general education concentration at Bates and with the participation of the Africana Club, the event is sponsored by the anthropology department. For more information, please contact 207-786-6933.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bates also presents a <a href=\"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/views\/2011\/04\/28\/hccp-symposium-morristown\/\">community forum<\/a> for local labor leaders and Latino immigrants in an event starting at 5:30 p.m. in the IBEW 567 Hall, 238 Goddard Road, Lewiston.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The program includes a dinner at 5:30 p.m., followed by a screening of the documentary &#8220;Morristown: In the Air and Sun&#8221; from 6 to 7 p.m. and a discussion with labor and civil rights activist Fran Ansley from 7 to 8.<\/p>\n<p>Open to the public at no cost, this event is presented as part of the Harward Center for Community Partnerships&#8217; Public Scholars Symposium, and is sponsored by the Western Maine Labor Council and the Maine Fair Trade Campaign. For more information, please contact 207-786-6202.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A community forum, film screening, and two speakers discuss their work on Wedndesday, May 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[175,195,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justice-poverty","category-news-politics","category-society-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42657","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=42657"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86655,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42657\/revisions\/86655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}