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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Another ISFNR zoom talk from Ghana’s best-known folklorist, for anyone who was excited by the recent film –<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Director, Mershon Center</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, April 10, 2024 at 22:16<br>
<b>To: </b>Nidhi Mathur <nidhimathur42@yahoo.com><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Fwd: The ISFNR lecture on 19 April 2024: Professor Kwesi Yankah<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Dear ISFNR members,</span><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi",sans-serif">As a means of encouraging and stimulating world-wide cooperation among folklorists, and to getting better aquainted with each other's research, the ISFNR has launched the online lecture
series entitled <i>The ISFNR Lecture Series: Voices from Around the Globe</i>. On </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi",sans-serif">Friday, </span><b><span lang="IS" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi",sans-serif">19 April 2024,
at 5 p.m. CE<span style="color:black">S</span>T</span></b><b><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi",sans-serif">,</span></b><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi",sans-serif"> we will present the
<span style="color:black">eleve</span>nth lecture in the series, entitled<i> <b>Ghana’s Presidents and the Rhetoric of Heritage<span style="color:black">.</span></b></i><span style="color:black">
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<span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi",sans-serif">The lecture will be given by <b>Professor Kwesi Yankah</b>, <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Ghana__;!!KGKeukY!zTDZh0FQCaAtwRdJM2seyHMHMLcndMrvSGSdBKIpuOtNBbSSTnKlfIqTJuxzPxijeM5UxqIWMp8K2so$" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">University
of Ghana</span></a>, and will be chaired by Professor Sadhana Naithani, University of New Delhi. Please see the abstract and short bionote of the lecturer below.</span><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:18.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Abadi",sans-serif">The lecture will take place in English and will be accessible </span><span lang="SL" style="font-family:"Abadi",sans-serif">at the following zoom link which you are
welcome to share with any interested parties:</span><span lang="SL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi",sans-serif">Topic: ISFNR lecture by Kwesi Yankah</span></b><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi",sans-serif">Time: Apr 19, 2024 05:00 PM CEST</span></b><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi",sans-serif">Meeting ID: 836 5095 7528</span><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi",sans-serif">For further information, see: </span><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi",sans-serif"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/isfnr.org/isfnr-online-lectures/__;!!KGKeukY!zTDZh0FQCaAtwRdJM2seyHMHMLcndMrvSGSdBKIpuOtNBbSSTnKlfIqTJuxzPxijeM5UxqIWFqrZ3qk$" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">http://isfnr.org/isfnr-online-lectures/</span></a></span><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:18.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Abadi",sans-serif">We very much hope to meet you online!
<span style="color:black"> </span></span><span lang="SL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">(</span><span style="font-family:"Abadi",sans-serif;color:black">At this occasion we would like to inform you in advance that, due to the ISFNR congress, the next ISFNR lecture
will take place already on the first Friday in June, i.e. on <u>7 June 2024 at 5p.m.)</u></span><span lang="SL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:18.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Abadi",sans-serif">With my very best wishes,</span><span lang="SL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Abadi",sans-serif">Mirjam Mencej, on behalf of the EC of the ISFNR</span><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Abstract</span></b><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri-Italic",serif">The paper puts in a broad context the general exploitation of ethno-poetic resources by</span></i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri-Italic",serif">Ghana’s presidents to drive public policy and boost political charisma. Here icons of group</span></i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri-Italic",serif">identity derived from heritage are prioritized as quintessential, since they also celebrate a</span></i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri-Italic",serif">leader’s affinity with the masses. This has been optimally expressed in moments of stress</span></i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri-Italic",serif">where public sympathy is needed to drive policy or cope with a raging crisis. From the time of</span></i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri-Italic",serif">Ghana’s independence to date, Ghana’s leaders have actively deployed heritage to legitimize</span></i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri-Italic",serif">power and effectively convey policy positions. This was climaxed during the COVID-19</span></i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri-Italic",serif">pandemic, when the President set the pace depicting policy responses to the crisis through</span></i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri-Italic",serif">proverb icons in fabric wear. Ghana’s leader saw in the tragedy an opportunity to reinvent</span></i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri-Italic",serif">tradition, and wipe the nation’s tears through proverb lore.</span></i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri-Italic",serif">The entire exercise is seen as a collective appeal to tradition to cope with contemporary crises,</span></i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri-Italic",serif">and as well demonstrate the healing power of heritage.</span></i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Kwesi Yankah is a Ghanaian scholar in ethnography of communication, and a product of</span></i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">University of Ghana and Indiana University (USA). An academic, administrator, and author of</span></i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">several books, Yankah has been Vice-Chancellor of Central University, Ghana; and Deputy</span></i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Vice-Chancellor of University of Ghana. He was between 2017 and 2021 Ghana’s Minister of</span></i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">State for tertiary educaJon. Yankah is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences</span></i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">(inducted 1997); Fellow, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (inducted 2022), and</span></i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Honorary Fellow, American Folklore Society (2018). He has been visiting fellow/scholar in</span></i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">several universities including Indiana, Stanford, Northwestern, University of Pennsylvania,</span></i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Michigan (Ann Arbor), University of California, Berkeley; University of Birmingham (UK).</span></i><span lang="SL" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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