Fall 2022 Africa At Noon Speaker Events
September 14
Jan Vansina Lecture: The Long Atlantic: A History in Terms of Africa(In-Person)
Kathryn de Luna
Georgetown University
Hosted by Neil Kodesh
September 21
Decoloniality Dialogues: Building Decolonial Commitments and Praxis (Virtual)
Upenyu Majee, Decolonial Dialogues
Michigan State University
Hosted by Luis Madureira
September 28
CANCELLED-For a Paradigm Shift in Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation in Africa
Médard Obiang Ebanega
Omar Bongo University, Gabon
Hosted by Zuzana Burivalova
October 5
Radiant Matter : The Long Shadow of French Nuclear Imperialism in the Living Sahara (In Person)
Jill Jarvis
Yale University
Hosted by Vlad Dima
October 12
Nikumbuke: Health and the UN Development Goals by Motorbike (In-Person)
Bendettah Muthina Thomas
Nikumbuke, Kenya
Hosted by Araceli Alonso
October 19
West African Roots of Pan-Africanism (In-Person)
Rebecca Shumway
UW-Milwaukee
Hosted by Neil Kodesh
October 26
How Jesus Became Black: Kongo’s Discovery of its Role in the Creation and Nativity Stories (Virtual)
John K. Thornton
Boston University
Hosted by Luis Madureira
November 2
Ndau Transnational Spirits, Languages, and Identities in Zimbabwe and Mozambique (In-Person)
Emmanuel Sithole
Northwestern University, South Africa
Hosted by Katrina Thompson
November 9
When Fighting Becomes an End in Itself: Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Virtual)
Jason K. Stearns
Simon Fraser University
Hosted by Lisa Naughton
November 16 (No Africa At Noon – ASA)
November 23 (No Africa At Noon – Thanksgiving/Indigenous People’s Day)
November 30
Arab Women’s Revolutionary Art Beyond the so-called “Arab Spring” (In-Person)
Nevine El Nossery
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Hosted by ASP
December 7
What Comes After Representation? (In-Person)
Sean Jacobs
The New School
Hosted by Marissa Moorman
December 14
Vlad Dima
UW-Madison
Hosted by Luis Madureira