January 30
The Importance of Relationship Dynamics in Explaining HIV Transmission: Results from a Qualitative Case-Control Study in Rakai, Uganda
Jenny Higgins
PhD, MPH, Gender and Women’s Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
February 6
Precolonial Intellectuals and the Production of Knowledge in the Colonial Northern Uganda
Patrick W. Otim
Ph.D. Student, History
University of Wisconsin-Madison
February 13
Making and Unmaking Nations: The Origins of Genocide and Non-Genocide in Contemporary Africa
Scott Straus
Professor of Political Science and International Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
February 20
Anatomy of Kuduro: Thoughts on the Angolan Body Politic
Marissa Moorman
Associate Professor of History
Indiana University
February 27
Theorizing Masculinity in the African Diaspora
Nikol Alexander-Floyd
Associate Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Lance McReady
Associate Professor of Urban Education
OISE/University of Toronto
March 6
A Tale of Two Cities: Dar es Salaam, Dodoma and the Making of African Socialism in Tanzania
Emily Callaci
Assistant Professor of History
University of Wisconsin-Madison
March 13
Seers, Rogues, and Prophets in North African Fiction
Samuel England
Assistant Professor of African Languages & Literature
University of Wisconsin-Madison
April 3
Queering the African Diaspora
Marlon Bailey
Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and American Studies
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Theatre & Drama
Indiana University-Bloomington
Fatima El-Tayeb
Associate Professor of Literature and Ethnic Studies & Associate Director of Critical Gender Studies
UC San Diego
April 10
Slavery in Africa: History, Memory and Commemoration
Jan Georg Deutsch
University Lecturer in African History
University of Oxford
April 17
Feminist Theory and Practice in the African Diaspora
Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe
Visiting Associate Professor of African and African American Studies
Duke University
Aili Tripp
Professor of Political Science and Gender & Women’s Studies; Director of Center for Research on Gender and Women
University of Wisconsin-Madison
April 24
Central Africa Initiative: Needs and Opportunities
Don Waller
Professor of Botany and Environmental Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Aliko Songolo
Professor of African Languages and Literature
University of Wisconsin-Madison