The annual William Brown Memorial Lecture on West African History is presented in collaboration with the Department of History. The William Allen Brown Memorial Lecture has been endowed generously by the students, colleagues, friends, and family of Bill Brown. Bill Brown earned a Ph.D. in History at the UW-Madison and was a professor in West African history at the UW-Madison for more than 30 years.
Looking Back for the Way Forward from NigeriaEbiegberi Joe Alagoa
Professor
University of Port Harcort
Saturday, April 21, 2012, 7:00pm
Pyle Center
702 Langdon Street
Madison, WI 53706
This talk was presented as a keynote lecture at the 50/FORWARD conference.
Remembering William Allen Brown: Africanist Outliers and Different Roads Taken to WisconsinAdell Patton, Jr.
Professor, Department of History
University of Missouri-Saint Louis
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Main Lounge, Memorial Union
800 Langdon Street
Madison, WI
Read Adell Patton’s remembrance of Bill Brown here.
Dying Muslim in Ghana: Death as an Intellectual and Social Practice in the Nineteenth and Twentieth CenturiesSean Hanretta
Assistant Professor
Department of History
Stanford University
4:00pm, April 20, 2010
Fluno Center Auditorium
601 University Avenue
Madison, WI
Paul Lovejoy
Distinguished Research Professor
Department of History
York University
Wednesday, March 11, 4:00pm
University Club
803 State Street
Madison, WI