A visiting professor from Senegal in West Africa will give several presentations on Thursday, March 3, at Coastal Carolina University and Horry Georgetown Technical College. All presentations are free to attend.

Saliou Dione, associate professor of African and postcolonial studies for the Department of Anglophone Studies at Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, is

currently a Senior Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Rutgers University. Dione will present:

* "Female Migritude as a Challenge to Masculinity(ies) in Postcolonial Africa" at 10:30 a.m. in the E. Craig Wall Sr. College of Business Administration's James J. Johnson Auditorium at CCU.

* "Global Cultural Perspectives: Senegal from the Inside and the Outside" at 3 p.m. in the HGTC Building 300, Room 110 at Horry Georgetown Technical College.

* "Roots and Routes of Pan-Africanism: Cross Influences and New World Challenges" at 5 p.m. in the Thomas W. and Robin W. Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts Recital Hall at CCU.

Dione holds a doctorate in African and Postcolonial Studies, a post-graduate diploma in American literature and civilization, and a bachelor of arts degree in British literature and civilization from Senegal's Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar. In addition to being a teacher and researcher, Dione is a bilingual translator well versed in Seereer and Wolof (local languages in Senegal), as well as in French and English. His main areas of academic interest and research include Pan-Africanism, postcolonialism, African culture and folklore, literature, comparative literature (continental African and African-American literatures), politics, gender, sex, sexuality, emigration, development and language, among others.

Dione is conducting research on gender, sex, sexuality, sexual orientations and sexual identities in postcolonial Africa. The series is sponsored by CCU's Arts and Humanities Global Experience Program and the Office of Global Initiatives in collaboration with the Fulbright's Outreach Lecture Fund Program.

Johnson Auditorium is in Room 116 of the Wall Building, located at 119 Chanticleer Drive E., and the Edwards Recital Hall is in Room 152 of the Edwards Building, located at 133 Chanticleer Drive E. on the Conway campus.

For more information, contact Tripthi Pillai, Global Experiences Coordinator, at tpillai@coastal.edu or 843-234-3410.