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October 2022
Radiant Matter: The Long Shadow of French Nuclear Imperialism in the Living Sahara
Date/Time: October 5th 2022, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speakers: Jill Jarvis PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION Prof. Jarvis’s talk explores the critical possibilities of aesthetic representation for apprehending and addressing the slow violence of French nuclear imperialism…
Find out more »The (Dis)utility of Force: Explaining the Strategic Failure of the French-led Intervention in Mali
Date/Time: October 5th 2022, @5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Speaker: Tony Chafer BIO Tony Chafer is Professor of French and African Studies. He gained his PhD, on decolonisation in French West Africa, from the University…
Find out more »Nikumbuke: Health and the UN Development Goals by Motorbike
Date/Time: October 12th 2022, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speakers: Bendettah Muthina Thomas Presentation Description: In her talk, Bendettah will share her personal and professional stories of engagement with Global Health through her collaboration with…
Find out more »West African Roots of Pan-Africanism
Date/Time: October 19th 2022, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speakers: Rebecca Shumway BIO Rebecca Shumway is a historian of 18th and 19th century West Africa and the Atlantic World with a focus on coastal Ghana…
Find out more »How Jesus Became Black: Kongo’s Discovery of its Role in the Creation and Nativity Stories (Virtual)
Date/Time: October 26th 2022, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speakers: John K. Thornton Zoom: To access the event directly, click here. For dial-in information, click here. BIO John Thornton is primarily an Africanist, with a specialty in the history…
Find out more »November 2022
Ndau Transnational Spirits, Languages, and Identities in Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Date/Time: November 2nd 2022, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speakers: Emmanuel Sithole BIO Emmanuel Sithole is a budding Zimbabwean scholar who is currently pursuing a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Northwest University in South Africa. He…
Find out more »When Fighting Becomes an End in Itself: Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Virtual)
Date/Time: November 9th 2022, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speakers: Jason K. Stearns Zoom: To access the event directly, click here. For dial-in information, click here. BIO Jason Stearns is Assistant Professor of International Studies at Simon Fraser University…
Find out more »Education as a tool for sustainable community development: A Sierra Leone Case Study
Date/Time: November 30th 2022, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speakers: Alhaji Njai
Find out more »December 2022
“What Comes After Representation?”
Date/Time: December 7th 2022, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speakers: Sean Jacobs PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION I will talk about the politics of my research practice, Africa Is a Country, which I founded in 2009 to challenge…
Find out more »Meaning-less-ness
Date/Time: December 14th 2022, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speakers: Vlad Dima Photo: Meaninglessness: Time, Rhythm, and the Undead in in Postcolonial Cinema BIO Vlad Dima is a Professor of African Cultural Studies at the…
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