Collecting the Sounds and Images of Oral Traditions
Learning Through Story
Event Details
Date
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Time
12-1 p.m.
Location
Description
Harold Scheub is the Evjue-Bascom Professor of Humanities in the Department of African Languages and Literature and one of the world's leading scholars in African oral traditions and folklore. To record oral traditions, he has walked more than 6000 miles through South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Lesotho. Join LTS in a discussion with Harold on the collection of images and sounds and the role of storytelling and narrative in the classroom as it relates to teaching and learning.
Cost
Free
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