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ICASA 2005 FILM FESTIVAL ORGANIZERS: The Organizer Dr Peyi Soyinka-Airewele Dept of Politics, Ithaca College & Alliance for Community Transformation, ACTAfrica. Organizing Assistants Fall 2005 Student Team (alphabetical) Sara Bebeau Joseph Gaskins Vandana Goel Jacqulyn Hamilton Jihae Kessler Sujin Kim Kosala Kumara Serkan Ozturkcan Spring-Summer 2005 Student Team Catherine T Bender Joseph Gaskins Marjani Isreal Fall 2004 Student Team Katya Genova Jonathan Korn Erica Miller John Neurohr Haley Singer Samantha Stone Malikah Waajid Ezekiel Wright Our appreciation to the many other student volunteers from Dr Soyinka-Airewele’s Africa through Film Class Bios Professor Peyi Soyinka-Airewele, has taught International and Comparative Politics with an emphasis on African politics and socio-political transitions for several years, first at Colgate University and now at Ithaca College, New York. A fellow of the Global Security and Cooperation (GSC) program of the Social Science Research Council, and the Director of the Alliance for Community Transformation (Africa), Dr Soyinka-Airewele has integrated the work of the scholar-practitioner for over a decade in her scholarship and active engagement in the social, political and economic discourse and struggles in the continent. Her research on the politics of memory in African political transitions has received support from many quarters, including a GSC fellowship, an invitation to join the team of scholars involved in preparing the final 8 volume report of the Nigerian Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission, and most recently, Fellowship of the Oxford Round Table (Women’s Leadership), Oxford, England. Dr Soyinka-Airewele is the recipient of the 2004 President’s Award for distinguished Service of the Association of Third World Studies (ATWS). Her writings have been published in several journals (African and Asian Studies, Issue, Journal of Third World Studies etc) and she has just concluded work on a book, which has received critical acclaim from preliminary reviewers “Invoking the Past, Conjuring the Nation: Memory, Communal Citizenship and Cathartic Violence”. Kosala Kumara, currently a MS student in Communications and Design, hails from Colombo, Sri Lanka. As a part of the IFF team she assisted in the conceptual design of the proposed media-center at OAU. She also conducted a feasibility study on equipment for the center and compiled the film catalog. Her expected graduation date is December 2005. Sara Bebeau, one of the original IFF team members, assisted with the development and design of the festival schedule and website. She will also be traveling to Abuja, Nigeria to work on site with conference organizers. She is a Cinema and Photography Major with a concentration in Still Photography, and a French Minor. Sara is a native of Albertville, MN and she is currently a senior, graduating in May 2006 Joseph Gaskins Jr. is a Politics major from Freeport, Grand Bahama, Bahamas. During the summer of 2005, he assisted with the design of a comprehensive proposal and investigated possible institutional sources of support. He is the organizing assistant for Public Relations and will be working on site in Abuja, Nigeria. Joseph is a junior, but is on path for an early graduation in December 2006. Serkan Ozturkcan is an Ithaca College graduate student in Communications and Design. He is from Istanbul, Turkey and was responsible for organizing the media deliverables, working closely with other volunteers, Jihae Kessler, Sujin Kim and Vandana Goel. |
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