Comfort Suites, 7735 University City Blvd., Charlotte, NC 28262; http://www.choicehotels.com, 704 547-0049, Deborah, state you are a UNCC guest when calling for rate, $55 + tax, free full breakfast, free wireless connect, microwave, etc.

Hilton Charlotte University Place, 8629 J.M. Keynes Drive, Charlotte, NC 28262; http://www.charlotteuniversity.hilton.com, 704 547-7444, 1-800-445-8667, Eric - 704 916-2847, ask for group rate and state you are a UNCC guest when calling for rate, $79 + tax, no breakfast

Holiday Inn, University Executive Park, 8520 University Executive Park Drive, Charlotte, NC 28262; http://www.clt-univplace.holiday-inn.com, 704-547-0999, 1-800-764-5328, front desk, state you are a UNCC guest when calling for rate, $59 + tax, no breakfast

Microtel Inn University Place, 132 E. McCullough Drive, Charlotte, NC 28262; 704-549-9900, front desk, state you are a UNCC guest when calling for rate, $37.95 single + tax, $42.95 double + tax, continental breakfast

Country Inn & Suites by Carlson-Charlotte, 131 E. McCullough Drive, Charlotte, NC 28262; http://www.countryinns.com, 704-549-8770, 1-800-456-4000, front desk - Eva, state you are a UNCC guest when calling for rate, $55 standard + tax, $65 suite + tax, continental breakfast

8:30 - 8:55: Coffee and donuts

8:55 - 9:00: Welcome by Coordinators

9:00 - 10:35: PANEL I: "Health and Related Issues in Africa," Mario Azevedo, Panel Chair and Discussant, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (email: mjazeved@email.uncc.edu)

1. Lutchmie Narine, University of North Carolina at Charlotte: "The Perils of Clinical Testing and Sampling in the Developing World: The Case of Africa"
2. Meshack Owino, Bloomsburg University, PA: Abstract and Paper of "Military Service and the Health of African Troops in Colonial Kenya"
3. Honore Missihoun, Central Piedmont Community College, NC: "Prevalence of Malaria and HIV/AIDS in West Africa's Tropical Rainforest"
4. Karen Flint, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC: "Healing the Body and the Nation in the Time of HIV/AIDS: Possibilities for Collaboration Between Biomedicine and Traditional Healers?"
5. Tanure Ojaide, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, "Health and African Oral Literature"
6. Mueni Muiu, Winston-Salem State University, NC: "The African State and the Politics of Disease and Famine"

10:45 - 12:20: PANEL II: "Tradition, Gender, and the Role of the State in Africa," Nonso Okereafoezeke, Panel Chair and Discussant, Norfolk State University, VA (email: nonso@nsu.edu)

1. Tim Carmichael, College of Charleston, SC: "An Historicizied Comparison of Qat Consumption in Harar and Addis Ababa"
2. Guy Martin, Winston-Salem University, NC: "Genocide: African Natural Resources and the West"
3. Veronica Nmoma, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC: "Global Perspectives of the US in Sudan"
4. Peter Klein, College of Charleston: "Escalation of the Civil War in the Sudan: The Rise of the Anya Nya and its Role in the Peace Agreement of 1972"

1. "Coordinators' Report"
2. "Report on the SERSAS Web Site and SERSAS-L," by Kenneth Wilburn, Web Editor, SERSAS, East Carolina University

1. Beth Whitaker, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC: "Funding the International Refugee Regime: Implications for Protection in Tanzania"
2. Dennis Ogirri, Johnson C. Smith University, and Isaac Owolabi, Montreat College, NC: "Theoretical and Historical Underpinnings of Globalization and Implications for African Development and Global Marketing"
3. Brad Thomas, College of Charleston, SC: "The Center Cannot Hold: The Collapse of the Somali State"
4. Charles Hutchison, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC: "Impact of Educational Reforms in Ghana"
5. Nancy Fairley, Davidson College, NC: Repatriates in Ghana: African or American"

1. April Gordon, Winthrop University, NC, Sociology
2. Jack Parson, College of Charleston, SC, Political Science
3. Ola Aborisade, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC, Public Policy, Public Health
4. Tiffany Manuel, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC, Political Science
5. Leah Wambura Kimathi, African Visitor, Political Science
6. Gorgui Dieng, African Visitor, Literature

SERSAS takes great pride in providing a friendly and colleagial atmosphere which facilitates the open exchange of scholarly perspectives. Faculty are encouraged to bring graduate and undergraduate students as a means of introducing them to the workings of an academic conference.