UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN AFFILIATES
FACULTY
Aliko Songolo, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Year II of Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi’s Presidency, Diverse Perspectives (ON-DEMAND, panelist)
Tejumola Olaniyan’s Legacy in African Cultural Studies Part III (panelist)
“(Re)building Institutions: Olaniyan at the University of Wisconsin”
Aili Trip, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Memorial for Crawford Young (chair)
James Sweet, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Tejumola Olaniyan’s Legacy in African Cultural Studies Part IV (panelist)
“Teju Olaniyan, the African Diaspora and the Disciplines at UW-Madison”
Matthew Brown, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Tejumola Olaniyan’s Legacy in African Cultural Studies Part I (panelist)
“On Interregna: The Politics of Theory Then, Now and to Come”
Nancy Kendall, University of Wisconsin, Madison
The Scope of Pedagogical Vision: Individual, National, and Planetary (panelist)
“Environmental Change and Human-Earth Relationships in Ghanaian and Malawian School Curricula and UNESCO Frameworks: A Comparison”
Ronald Radano, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Tejumola Olaniyan’s Legacy in African Cultural Studies Part IV (panelist)
“Hearing the Postcolonial Incredible”
Vlad Dima, University of Wisconsin, Madison
The Beautiful Skin: Football, Fantasy, and Cinematic Bodies in Africa (author meets critic)
Reginold Royston, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Podcasts and the Study of Africa: A Digital Technology’s Impact on Research, Teaching, and Public Engagement (ON-DEMAND, roundtable panelist)
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GRADUATES
Irène Tombo, University of Wisconsin, Madison
States, Security, and Citizenship (panelist)
“Dimensions of Congolese Citizenship: Whose Rights and Responsibilities?”
Kaden Paulson-Smith, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Sexuality Studies and Imprisonment: Queering African Prison Studies (ON-DEMAND, panelist)
Crime and Justice (panelist and chair)
“How ‘Post’ was Post-Colonial Policing in Independent Tanzania?”
Oladipupo Oyeleye, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Performance of Identity through Music (panelist)
“Afropolitan Soundscape: Rethinking African Sound (s) in the Age of Technocapitalism”
Realities of COVID-19 and Africa (panelist)
“Curbing COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives on African Popular Music in Global Health Crisis”
Unifier Dyer, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Ubuntu Dialogues: Afrocentric Possibilities for Transregional Engagement and Co-creation and Dissemination of Knowledge (panelist)
“Ubuntu and Women’s Experiences as Epistemology”
Yaa Oparebea Ampofo, University of Wisconsin, Madison
The Scope of Pedagogical Vision: Individual, National, and Planetary (panelist)
“Environmental Change and Human-Earth Relationships in Ghanaian and Malawian School Curricula and UNESCO Frameworks: A Comparison”
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ALUMNI
Allen Isaacman, University of Minnesota
Water Insecurity In the Era of Global Climate Change (chair)
Colonial Violence and Armed Struggle in Southern Africa (discussant)
Chris Duvall, University of New Mexico
Drugs and Work: New Entanglements (panelist)
Claire Robertson, Ohio State University
What about Widows Part I: The Resilience of Widows (chair)
Daniel Magaziner, Yale University
Ethiopia in Theory: Revolution and Knowledge Projection, 1964-2016 (critic)
David Bresnahan, University of Utah
Language and Living on the Swahili Coast (panelist)
“Salimini’s Words: A Nyanja Dictionary and Microhistory in Indian Ocean Slavery”
Kathleen Klaus, University of San Francisco
Land, Elections, and Political Violence in Africa (author)
Political Violence in Kenya: Land, Elections, and Claim-Making
Mara Goldman, University of Colorado, Boulder
Narrating Nature: Wildlife Conservation and Maasai Ways of Knowing (author, co-chair)
Book Title: Wildlife Conservation and Maasai Ways of Knowing
Drylands facing Covid-19: Collaborative research on gendered impacts, electoral politics and local (mis)understandings of the pandemic in dryland Eastern Africa (panelist)
Marha Wilfahrt
Decentralization in Africa (panelist)
Long-Run Effects of Historical Customary Institutions (panelist)
Olusegun Soetan, Penn State University
Nigerian Societies in Transition (panelist)
Philip Janzen, University of Florida
Exploring Themes of Ecocriticism, Religion, and Migration in Literature and Memory (panelist)
‘Translating “Dreams:’ Interpreters and Knowledge Production in Central Africa”
Pelumi Folajimi, University of Wisconsin-Madison Alum
Nigeria at 60: Governance, Human Rights and Justice for the 21st Century (panelist)
Nigerian Societies in Transition (panelist)
Rachel DeMotts, University of Puget Sound
Narrating Nature: Wildlife Conservation and Maasai Ways of Knowing (critic)
Richard Schroeder, Brandeis University (MS alum)
Narrating Nature: Wildlife Conservation and Maasai Ways of Knowing (critic)
Timothy Longman, Boston University
Religion and Political Action in Postcolonial Africa (panelist)
Upenyu Majee, Michigan State University
Ubuntu Dialogues: Afrocentric possibilities for Transregional Engagement and Co-Creation and Dissemination of Knowledge (chair)
If you are participating in the African Studies Association meeting this year and did not see your name above, please contact connect@africa.wisc.edu so that we can add you to the list.