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.
Complimentary coffee and tea is routinely served and bagged lunch is welcome. Join us weekly at 206 Ingraham Hall. Check out the full Spring 2019 line up below and join us weekly at 206 Ingraham Hall.
Find a Past Lineup
Spring 2020 Africa At Noon Events
January 29
A.C. Jordan Lecture “’We are All Rwandan’: Identifying and Indexing the People Formerly Known as Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa”
Kathryn Mara
PhD Candidate in African Cultural Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
February 5
“Goal Dreams: Conflicting Development Imaginaries in Ghanaian Football Academies”
Itamar Dubinsky
Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Philosophy, and Religion, Oregon State University | Honorary fellow at the UW-Madison African Studies Program
February 12
Marissa J. Moorman
Associate Professor of History, IU-Bloomington
February 19
“Genetic Ancestry and Political Subjectivity in Postapartheid South Africa”
Noah Tamarkin
Assistant Professor of Comparative Studies, The Ohio State University
February 26
“Kwaito Bodies: Remastering Space and Subjectivity in Postapartheid South Africa”
Xavier Livermon
Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies, UT-Austin
March 4
“A Dream House: A Literary Ethnography of Aging in Place in South Africa”
Casey Golomski
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of New Hampshire
Postponed until October 7th
“Wartime Experiences of Civic Leaders: Legacies of Civil War in Sub-Saharan Africa”
Justine M. Davis
PhD Candidate in Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Spring Break | No Africa At Noon
CANCELED: March 25
“Alchemy In The Art Studio: The Case of KNUST Art”
Dorothy Amenuke
Lecturer in the Department of Painting and Sculpture, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
Postponed until October 14th
“Intimacy and Empire: Creating Over-lapping Diasporas in Postcolonial Nigeria”
Judith Byfield
Professor of History, Cornell University
CANCELED: April 8
Mosoka P. Fallah
Deputy Director General, Epidemiologist, Immunologist, Consultant
National Public Health Institute of Liberia
CANCELED: April 15
“A Conversation about Women, Writing, and Leadership in Uganda”
Goretti Kyomuhendo and Hilda Twongyeirwe
CANCELED: April 22
“Our Own Way in the Part of the World: Biography of an African Community, Culture, Nation”
Kwasi Konadu
CANCELED: April 29
“Varieties of African Developmentalism”
Dr. Pritish Behuria
Hallsworth Research Fellow in Political Economy at the University of Manchester’s Global Development Institute