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
JANUARY 23
“Afriqueer: Negotiating an Impossible Identity Through Performance”
April Sizemore-Barber
Assistant Professor of the Practice in Women’s and Gender Studies
Georgetown University
RESCHEDULED: FEBRUARY 1
“Looking for Solidarity: Lessons from African Feminist and LGBTI Organizing”
Ashley Currier
Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
University of Cincinnati
FEBRUARY 6
“When Women Wear Slacks: Gender, Sexuality and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon”
Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué
Assistant Professor of History
Baylor University
FEBRUARY 13
“Conflict and Coexistence: A Story of People and Elephants in the Okavango”
Amanda Stronza
Director of the Applied Biodiversity Science Program, Texas A&M University
Co-Founder, Ecoexist Project, Botswana
FEBRUARY 20
“In Search of African Women Playwrights”
Kathy A. Perkins
Professor Emerita of Theatre
University of Illinois (Champagne-Urbana) &
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
FEBRUARY 27
“Global Perspectives: Afro-Asian Practices in Dance”
Alessandra Williams
Inclusive Excellence Fellow in Women’s and Gender Studies and Theatre and Dance
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
MARCH 6
**POSTPONED** “The Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon: Historical Background, Conflict Dynamics and Proposals for a Way-out”
Ivor Fung
Team Leader, Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW), and Chair for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Task Force
UN Office for Disarmament Affairs, New York
MARCH 13
“Torture Testimonials of the Algerian War of Independence: Framing the Unseeable”
Maria Vendetti
Assistant Professor of French
St. Olaf College, Minnesota
MARCH 27
“Common Law Courts, Currency, and Colonial Administration: A Public Historian’s Perspective”
Ellen Feingold
Curator of the National Numismatic Collection
National Museum of American History
APRIL 3
“Technology and Meducation… The Changing Paradigm of How We Learn: Implications For Clinical Care in Africa”
Janis P. Tupesis, M.D.
Associate Director, Global Health Institute
University of Wisconsin- Madison
APRIL 10
“‘Big Bet’ philanthropy and Traditional Grant-making Programs: How private foundations see their role in supporting Africa-based initiatives”
Kristen Molyneaux
Vice President for Social Change
Lever for Change, MacArthur Foundation
APRIL 17
“How Nonnormative Gender and Sexuality Became a Target of Violent Political Repression”
Kaden Paulson-Smith
Graduate Student in the Department of Political Science
University of Wisconsin- Madison
APRIL 24
“Why do Autocrats Adopt Women’s Rights Reforms? Contrasting the Maghreb and the Middle East”
Aili Tripp
Professor of Political Science & Chair of Gender & Women’s Studies
University of Wisconsin- Madison
MAY 1
“Wretched of the sea: African migrant boat narratives in international context”
Subha Xavier
Associate Professor of French and Core Faculty at the Institute of African Studies
Emory University