Rose Marie Kuhn

(Foreign Languages and Literatures) gave a one-day refereed workshop, “Impressions of French-Speaking Sub-Saharan Africa: A Cultural Introduction to Sénégal and Côte d'Ivoire,” at the California Language Teachers Association in Sacramento, April 18-21, 2003. She was selected nationally as one of 12 faculty to participate to the “Islam in West Africa” Seminar in Dakar, Senegal, sponsored by the West African Research Association. She was awarded a travel and research grant from the Ford Foundation and the Joint Berkeley-Stanford Center for African Studies to make her participation to the Islam Seminar possible.

Her article, “Globalisation et enseignement à distance: Les voix de l’Afrique aux Californiens et les voix de la France aux Africains” co-authored with Perpétue Mevo Odunlami (Université de Cotonou, Cotonou, Benin) and Nicole Vaget (Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts) was published in Etudes Francophones 18 (Spring 2003) : 89-101.