AFRICA AT NOON IS 50!
Every Wednesday at noon — since 1973! — African Studies Program faculty, students, and community members have gathered for AFRICA AT NOON, a one-hour weekly lecture series bringing diverse African research from scholars around the world to a campus and community audience.
Fall 2023 Africa at Noon events will be livestreamed on Zoom. You can join here.
You can view available recordings of past Africa at Noon speakers here and on the event page as well.
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Find a Past Lineup
Fall 2023 Africa At Noon Events
September 13th
Sixth Jan Vansina Lecture
Edda Fields Black
Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University
Hosted by Khaled Esseissah
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September 20th
Joan Wicken: A Lifelong Collaboration with Tanzania’s President Nyerere
Aili Tripp
Department of Political Science, UW-Madison
Hosted by Marissa Moorman
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September 27th
Elisa Scaraggi
Institute of Contemporary History, NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Lisbon
Hosted by Marissa Moorman
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October 4th
African Viruses Flourishing in the Diaspora
Oyewale Tomori
Nigerian Institute of Science
Hosted by Gregg Mitman
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October 11th
Chazen Museum of Art–Insistent Presence: Contemporary African Art from the Chazen Collection
Katherine Alcauskas
Chazen Museum of Art
This event will take place at the Chazen Museum of Art
October 18th
Khaled Esseissah
Department of History, UW-Madison
Hosted by Marissa Moorman
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October 25th
Ambassador John E. Lange (Retd.)
UN Foundations Global Health Diplomacy, former Ambassador to Botswana
Hosted by Marissa Moorman
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November 1st
Islamic Modernism and the Public Sphere in Northern Nigeria, 1940s-1960s
Alexander Thurston
Political Science, University of Cincinnati
Hosted by Khaled Esseissah
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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
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November 15th
AFR100: Lessons from the African Forest Landscape Initiative (Virtual)
Bernadette Arakwiye
World Resources Institute
Hosted by Lisa Naughton
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December 6th
Fabienne Kanor
French and Francophone Studies, Pennsylvania State University
Hosted by Nevine El Nossery
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December 13th
Queer African Cinematic Art and Popular Melodrama
Lindsey Green-Simms
American University, DC
Hosted by Matthew Brown
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