Please join the World Affairs Council of Maine and USM/L-A for an exciting
evening presentation by three representatives of Lewiston-Auburn's
immigrant communities. The three presenters will speak individually
and the entire
panel will participate in an open question/answer forum.
When: Tuesday, January 25, 5:45-7:00 pm
Where: USM/L-A Room 170
Panelists
Charles V. Carnegie, Professor of Anthropology, Bates College
Nasser Rohani, Programmer/Analyst at L. L. Bean
Pierre A. D. Teko, Student and Lewiston Resident
Moderator: Ismail Ahmed, a USM/L-A student and representative from the
International Student Association of Lewiston-Auburn. Ismail is from
Somalia.
Charles V. Carnegie (A.B. Cornell, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins) is from Jamaica.
He first came to the United States as a student in 1972,
and recently became a U.S. citizen. He is Associate Professor
of Anthropology at Bates
College where he also chairs the Program in African American
Studies. His recent work focuses on identity categories and
on issues
of nationalism
and transnationalism. He currently serves on the editorial
board of the journal Transforming Anthropology, serves as
a member of the editorial
collective of the Caribbean journal of criticism, Small Axe,
and on the Executive Committee of the Association for Bahá'í Studies.
Nasser Rohani's, Programmer/Analyst at L. L. Bean and a member of the
Bahá'í Faith,
came to America in May 1985. At age 18, he left his home
country of Iran and went to India for higher education. He
obtained his graduate degree
in Cooperative Banking from Osmania University in Andhra
Pradesh. After the Islamic Revolution of Iran in 1979 and
the refusal of the Iranian
mission in India to renew his passport, and for fear of persecution,
Rohani applied for "Stateless" status with the United
Nations. In 1985 he and his family were granted immigration
visas to the United States. Nasser left his pre PhD studies
and moved to Maine. The Rohanis both went to school
and found jobs in their new home state.
Pierre A. D. Teko was born in Togo and lived there for some years. He
then lived in Benin, a state on the east side of Togo. He
learned from both west African and European cultures. Pierre
is one of the newer residents
on the panel having arrived in Lewiston in 2000. He has been
studying at the college level and at home.
Free and open to the public. For more information, call Roger Philippon
at 753 6560 or philippo@usm.maine.edu In case of inclement
weather, call the USM/L-A Storm Line at 753-6595. If classes
are cancelled, there will be no program.
