Africa at Noon

A weekly Wednes­day event since 1973

Bring your lunch and enjoy com­pli­men­tary tea, and cof­fee from Madison’s local roaster Just Cof­fee.

All events start at 12:00pm
206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI

This series is free and open to the public.

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September 12
Health, Disease, and Healing in the Northern Great Lakes Region of Africa, ca.1500-1920: A Research Agenda

Neil Kodesh
Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of History
University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

 

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September 19
Villainous Kin and Redeeming Friends: Narratives of Enslavement and the Promise of “Computational Folkloristics” in Central African History

Kathryn M. de Luna
Department of History
Rice University

 

 

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September 26
Role-playing in Antigone and Africa: Can we read Sophocles through Sizwe?

Sarah Nooter
Assistant Professor of Classics
University of Chicago

 

 

 

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October 3
Strengthening Peace and Security in Africa: The Next 20 Years

Ambassador John L. Hirsch
International Peace Institute

 

 

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October 10
When Should a Wedding be White?

Natasha Erlank
Department of Historical Studies
University of Johannesburg.

 

 

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October 17
The Convergence of Formal and Informal Economic Institutions: Susu in Ghana

Kweku Opoku-Agyemang
Postdoctoral Researcher, Agricultural & Applied Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

 

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October 24
Informal Settlement Upgrading: Notions of Modernity vs Community Empowerment

Neil Klug
School of Architecture and Planning
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

 

 

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October 31
The evolution of women economic status in the Lake Chad region since the 19th century

Djanabou Bakary
Lecturer, Department of History
University of Maroua, Cameroon

 

 

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November 7
Good Liberals, Bad Liberals: Problems of Complicity in South Africa

Teresa Barnes
Associate Professor
Departments of History, and Gender/Women’s Studies
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

 

 

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December 5
Politics and the Urban Experience in Post colonial West African Literature

Gbemisola Adeoti
English, Obafemi Awolowo University
Ile-Ife, Nigeria

 

 

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January 30
The Importance of Relationship Dynamics in Explaining HIV Transmission: Results from a Qualitative Case-Control Study in Rakai, Uganda

Jenny Higgins
PhD, MPH, Gender and Women’s Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

 

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February 6
Precolonial Intellectuals and the Production of Knowledge in the Colonial Northern Uganda

Patrick W. Otim
Ph.D. Student, History
University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

 

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February 13
Making and Unmaking Nations: The Origins of Genocide and Non-Genocide in Contemporary Africa

Scott Straus
Professor of Political Science and International Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

 

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February 20
Anatomy of Kuduro: Thoughts on the Angolan Body Politic

Marissa Moorman
Associate Professor of History
Indiana University

 

 

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February 27
Theorizing Masculinity in the African Diaspora

Nikol Alexander-Floyd
Associate Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

 

 

Lance McReady
Associate Professor of Urban Education
OISE/University of Toronto

 

 

 

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 March 6
A Tale of Two Cities: Dar es Salaam, Dodoma and the Making of African Socialism in Tanzania

Emily Callaci
Assistant Professor of History
University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

 

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March 13
Seers, Rogues, and Prophets in North African Fiction

Samuel England
Assistant Professor of African Languages & Literature
University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

 

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April 3
Queering  the African Diaspora

Marlon Bailey
Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and American Studies
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Theatre & Drama
Indiana University-Bloomington

 

 

Fatima El-Tayeb
Associate Professor of Literature and Ethnic Studies & Associate Director of Critical Gender Studies
UC San Diego

 

 

 

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 April 10

Title: Slavery in Africa: History, Memory and Commemoration

Jan Georg Deutsch
University Lecturer in African History
University of Oxford

 

 

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 April 17

Feminist Theory and Practice in the African Diaspora

Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe
Visiting Associate Professor of African and African American Studies
Duke University

 

 

Aili Tripp
Professor of Political Science and Gender & Women’s Studies; Director of Center for Research on Gender and Women
University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

 

 

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April 24

Title: Central Africa Initiative: Needs and Opportunities

Don Waller
Professor of Botany and Environmental Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

Aliko Songolo
Professor of African Languages and Literature
University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

 

 

For­merly known as Sand­wich Sem­i­nar, this weekly lec­ture series brings Africa research in any dis­ci­pline, whether fin­ished or con­tin­u­ing, to an audi­ence of fac­ulty, staff, stu­dents, and the com­mu­nity in a relaxed setting. The African Studies Program invites speak­ers from the Uni­ver­sity of Wis­con­sin fac­ulty and staff, from the fac­ul­ties of col­leges and uni­ver­si­ties around the world, and occa­sion­ally from among our grad­u­ate stu­dents, inde­pen­dent schol­ars, and per­sons work­ing in gov­ern­ment, foun­da­tions, char­i­ta­ble orga­ni­za­tions, and the pri­vate sector.
Archived list of Africa at Noon events