September 13th
6th Jan Vansina Lecture
Edda Fields Black
Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University
Hosted by Khaled Esseissah
September 20th
Joan Wicken: A Lifelong Collaboration with Tanzania’s President Nyerere
Aili Tripp
Department of Political Science, UW-Madison
Hosted by Marissa Moorman
September 27th
Elisa Scaraggi
Institute of Contemporary History, NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Lisbon
Hosted by Marissa Moorman
October 4th
African Viruses Flourishing in the Diaspora
Oyewale Tomori
Nigerian Institute of Science
Hosted by Gregg Mitman
October 11th
Eskadar Awgichew
Eco-Justice Ethiopia, Ethiopia
Hosted by Nathan Schulfer
October 18th
Khaled Esseissah
Department of History, UW-Madison
Hosted by Marissa Moorman
October 25th
Ambassador John E. Lange (Retd.)
UN Foundations Global Health Diplomacy, former Ambassador to Botswana
Hosted by Marissa Moorman
November 1st
Islamic Modernism and the Public Sphere in Northern Nigeria, 1940s-1960s
Alexander Thurston
Political Science, University of Cincinnati
Hosted by Khaled Esseissah
November 8th
Infrastructural Attachments: Austerity, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Expertise in Kenya
Emma Park
History, The New School for Social Research, and Eugene Lang College
Hosted by Daniel Williford
November 15th
AFR100: Lessons from the African Forest Landscape Initiative
Bernadette Arakwiye
World Resources Institute
Hosted by Lisa Naughton
December 6th
Fabienne Kanor
French and Francophone Studies, Pennsylvania State University
Hosted by Nevine El Nossery
December 13th
Queer African Cinematic Art and Popular Melodrama
Lindsey Green-Simms
American University, DC
Hosted by Matthew Brown