Speaker: Michelle Moyd
Time: 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm CST
Venue: 206 Ingraham Hall
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Talk Description
The African world’s multifaceted involvement in the global First World War remains marginal in existing historiography. This is the case despite a surge of scholarly production and public interest during the Great War’s centenary (2014-2018). By foregrounding African and African diasporic peoples’ perspectives on the Great War, this talk offers three perhaps unconventional ways of understanding its violent, but also generative, effects across different dimensions of their socio-economic, political, spiritual lives.
Speaker’s Bio
Michelle Moyd is Associate Professor of History and Red Cedar Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University. She is the author of Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa, published in 2014 by Ohio University Press. Her peer-reviewed articles have appeared in International Labor and Working-Class History, Radical History Review, and First World War Studies. With David C. Gramling and Yuliya Komska, she is also co-author of Linguistic Disobedience: Restoring Power to Civic Language (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). She is currently working on Africa, Africans, and the First World War for the New Approaches to African History series at Cambridge University Press.
The event is free and open to the public.