September 4
Africa and the Eighteenth-Century: The Challenge of the Archive
Teju Olaniyan
Professor, African Languages and Literature and English
University of Wisconsin-Madison
September 11
The One and the Many: Individual and Collective in Congolese Popular Music
John Nimis
Assistant Professor, African Languages and Literature
University of Wisconsin-Madison
September 18
Preserving African Commemorative Fabrics: The Cloth Endures
Emilie Songolo
Senior Academic Librarian, Memorial Library
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Melissa McLimans
Digital Resources Librarian
University of Wisconsin-Madison
September 25
State Aesthetics: Nollywood, 419, and the Forms of Corruption
Brian Larkin
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Barnard College
October 2
Writing on the Road: Identity Formation and Place-Making in Post-Colonial Dahomey and Benin
Marcus Filippello
Assistant Professor, History
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
October 9
Global Health and Africa
Ambassador John E. Lange (Ret.)
Senior Fellow, Global Health Diplomacy
United Nations Foundation
October 16
The Marabout (Murabit) as Public Healer: The Cosmology of Corporeality and the Islamic Body Politic in Morocco
Ellen Amster
Associate Professor, History
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
October 23
Swahili Talk about Supernatural Sodomy: Intertextuality, the Obligation to Tell, and the Transgression of Norms in Coastal Tanzania
Katrina Thompson
Associate Professor, African Languages and Literature
University of Wisconsin-Madison
October 30
From the Ground Up: Social History, Land Quality and Inequality in Southwestern Niger
Matthew Turner
Professor, Geography
University of Wisconsin-Madison
November 6
Rethinking the Migration-Conflict Nexus: Insights from the Cocoa Regions in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana
Matthew Mitchell
Postdoctoral Fellow, Political Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison
November 13
‘For the Benefit of the Whole Nation’: Framing Tanzania’s Moyowosi Game Reserve as Nationalist and Local Resource
Julie Weiskopf
Assistant Professor, History
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
November 20
NO AFRICA AT NOON
November 27
NO AFRICA AT NOON
December 4
A Film Never Made: History, Science, and Memory in Liberia
Gregg Mitman
Vilas Research and William Coleman Professor, History of Science, Medical History, and Environmental Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison