February 2nd
Aderemi Raji-Oyelade (Remi Raji)
Professor at University of Ibadan, Nigeria
February 16th
“Policing the Virtuous in Post-Gaddafi Libya”
Leila Tayeb
Ph.D in Performance Studies, Northwestern University
Hosted by Vlad Dima
February 23rd
“Voice of the Cape: Reclaiming Landscape Through the Sound of Cape-Town-Based Hip-Hop”
Warrick Moses
Assistant Professor of Music History and Cultures, Syracuse University
Hosted by Vlad Dima
March 2nd
“Music in/as Afropolitan Tongue: The Ethics of Personhood in Wolof Islamic Hip Hop”
Samba Camara
Teaching Assistant Professor. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Hosted by Vlad Dima
March 9th
“The Aural City: Sensory Politics in the Making of Gulu, Uganda”
Joella Bitter
Ph.D in Anthropology, Duke University
Hosted by Vlad Dima
March 23rd
“The Fabric of Diaspora: Memory, Portraiture, and Empowerment in the Quilts of Bisa Butler”
Nancy Demerdash-Fatemi
Assistant Professor of Art History, Albion College
March 30th
“French Military Interventions in Africa: Two Cheers for Multilateralism”
Tony Chafer
Professor of African and French Studies, University of Portsmouth (UK)
Hosted by Jason Yackee
April 6th
Catherine Cole
Division Dean of the Arts and Professor of Dance and English, University of Washington
April 13th
“What Comes After Representation”
Sean Jacobs
Associate Professor of International Affairs, The New School in New York City
April 20th
“Uncivic Legacies: Wartime Rebel Control and Civic Society In Africa”
Justine Maisha Davis
Assistant Professor of AfroAmerican and African Studies and Political Science, University of Michigan
Hosted by John Pevehouse
April 27th
“A Paradigm Shift in Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation in Africa”
Médard Obiang Ebanega
Department of Geography and Maritime Science, Omar Bongo University
May 4th
“Building Youth Resilience through Agriculture”
Lusayo Mwakatika
Business Development Officer, ACADES Malawi