{"287801":{"#nid":"287801","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Art, Oppression, Protest and Survival: The Pende in the Democratic Republic of the Congo,  a lecture by Herbert Weiss, part of Africa Atlanta 2014","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EArt, Oppression, Protest and Survival:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Pende in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ea lecture by Herbert Weiss, part of Africa Atlanta 2014\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003E4:00 \u2013 5:30 April 24\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003ESeminar Room, Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;A reception will follow the lecture.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EHerbert Weiss is a senior fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute of International Studies, New York City as well as a senior fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington D.C.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHerbert Weiss is a political scientist who has worked in Africa for many decades.\u0026nbsp; Forced to leave Vienna as a small boy, Weiss moved to Khartoum, where he and his family lived during the Second World War. Following study at the University of Paris and Columbia University, Weiss studied the independence movement in the Belgian Congo. He arrived in the Congo for the first time in 1959 where he met many figures in the Congolese independence movement. In 1960 he traveled extensively in the Congo with leaders of the independence movement and worked with Patrice Lumumba. \u0026nbsp;His work in the Congo led to his book, \u003Cem\u003EPolitical Protest in the Congo\u003C\/em\u003E (Princeton, 1967) [French translation: \u003Cem\u003ERadicalisme Rural et Lutte pour l\u2019independence au congo-zaire\u003C\/em\u003E (Paris 1968, 1994) which received the Herskovitz Prize for the best book of 1968 in African Studies.\u0026nbsp; His work became associated with \u2018rural radicalism\u2019 in contrast to theories that associated political change with a ruling elite.\u0026nbsp; In 1986 he organized a Paris conference on the Congo rebellions. He has taught at CUNY and has been a consultant to international organizations. Weiss returned to the Congo most recently in March of 2014.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Weiss\u2019s talk is being held in conjunction with the exhibition, \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.africaatlanta.org\/calendar\/event\/mapping-place-africa-beyond-paper\/\u0022\u003EMapping Place: Africa Beyond Paper\u003C\/a\u003E,\u201d at the Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking, as part of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.africaatlanta.org\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAfrica Atlanta 2014\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, an initiative of the Georgia Institute of Technology Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and the Consulate General of the Kingdom of Belgium in Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe visit of Herbert Weiss is sponsored by Africa Atlanta 2014.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EArt, Oppression, Protest and Survival: The Pende in the Democratic Republic of the Congo\u003C\/strong\u003E, a lecture by Herbert Weiss, part of Africa Atlanta 2014, will be held 4:00 \u2013 5:30 p.m. April 24, in the Seminar Room, Robert C. 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