Spring 2012 Africa at Noon Events
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Africa and World History
T. Cary Johnson, Jr. Professor
Department of History
University of Virginia
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
The Endangered Past: Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart as Historical Reclamation
PhD Student
Department of African Languages and Literature
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
When the Past Plays Out in the Present: A Personal Narrative of the Production of Knowledge and the UW African Studies Program
Regents Professor of History
University of Minnesota
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
African Journeys
Iris Berger
Professor of History
University at Albany (State University of New York)
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
The Sahel’s Silent Maize Revolution: Analyzing Maize Productivity in Mali at the Farm Level
Associate Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
African Languages and Literature at Wisconsin – Reminiscences and Reflections
Professor Emeritus, Department of African Languages and Literature
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
The Future of African Studies Scholarship: Trends on the Continent
Professor
Department of Political Science and Department of Gender & Women’s Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
President, African Studies Association
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
African Studies as the Platform for African Diaspora Studies? Reflections on Comparative Tropical History at UW-Madison
Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History
Johns Hopkins University
Interim Director of the Center for Africana Studies
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Rethinking Political Identity and Citizenship Rights in Contemporary Africa
Edmond J. Keller
Distinguished Professor of Political Science
University of California-Los Angeles
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
How Did Anthropology Become the Child and Handmaiden of Colonialism?: A Critical Look at a Cliché
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, UW-Madison
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 CANCELLED
Protest, Pain, and Place: Visual Geographies of South African Women’s Activism Against Apartheid
Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and African Art History Wheaton College in Massachusetts
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Boko Haram Terrorism As Threat to Nigeria’s Unity and Democracy
Executive Editor, The News
Lagos, Nigeria
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Amadou-Mahtar M’Bow: UNESCO, NWICO and the U.S. – NAIROBI 1976 and the February 2011 ‘Arab Spring’
Professor Emeritus, Department of African Languages and Literature
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Incorporating Effective Pedagogical Strategies in HIV Curricula for Teacher Education in Africa
Fulbright Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh and a Senior Lecturer and Head of Department of Foundations and Curriculum Studies
College of Education and External Studies at Makerere University, Uganda