Newhouse Center
April Lunch and
Lecture Series
with the 2007-2008
Fellows and Visiting Scholars

April 23, 2008
Abdourahman Waberi

In the United States of Africa

Newhouse Center Lounge,
6:00 - 7:00, reception to follow

Abdourahman Waberi is a poet, novelist and essayist from the Republic of Djibouti. He is currently at work on a novel dealing with the theme of migration in the global age.  In collaboration with his translators, David and Nicole Ball, he will read from and discuss his newly translated novel of 2006, Aux Etats-Unis d’Afrique.

Please note that this is not a lunchtime event

April 29, 2008
Lara Freidenfelds

Changing Understandings of Early Pregnancy in Nineteenth-Century America: How Abortion, Embryology and the Rise of Organized Medicine Matter for Early Miscarriage

Lara Freidenfelds is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Newhouse Center and in the Women’s Studies Department.  She has just completed a book titled The Modern Period: Menstruation Education, Technology and Health Practices in Twentieth Century America. Her presentation is from her work in progress on changing conceptions of miscarriage.