January 22
Caribbean Colonizers and Diasporic Imaginaries in the French Empire, 1880-1960
Philip Janzen
Graduate Student, History
University of Wisconsin-Madison
January 29
Project 1808: A GLocal School- University -Community Partnership Education Model for Sustainable Livelihood in Rural Sierra Leone
Alhaji Njai
PhD Scientist, Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati and Research Fellow
Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Linda Vakunta
PhD Candidate
Environmental Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
February 5
“Because your Kings live longer:” West-African Diplomacy and Health Exchanges in the Seventeenth Century Iberian Atlantic
Pablo Gomez
Assistant Professor, Medical History and Bioethics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
February 12
Koko’s Daughters. Interracial Marriage on the Gold Coast during the Atlantic Slave Trade
Pernille Ipsen
Assistant Professor, History and Gender & Women’s Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
February 19
Remaking the edges: Sub-Saharan Africa’s New Suburbs
Garth Myers
Professor, Urban International Studies
Trinity College
February 26
A Look at Ethiopia’s Grand Dam Plan
Paul Block
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison
March 5
African Cinema: Troubling the (Cinematic World) Order
Kenneth Harrow
Professor, English
Michigan State University
March 12
Flywhisks, Catastrophe Logic, and Colonial Nervousness in the Congo
Nancy Rose Hunt
Professor, History
University of Michigan
March 26
Healing Fate: A Feast For Lazarus-Babalu-Aye in Contemporary Central Cuba
Todd Ochoa
Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
University of North Carolina
April 2
Genetic Indeterminism in Africa: The Politics of Fluid Science
Duana Fullwiley
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Stanford University
This Africa at Noon event has been CANCELLED.
April 9
Shackles of Various Kinds: marriage, slavery, and shame in late nineteenth century Gold Coast Colony and Protectorate
Trevor Getz
Professor, History
San Francisco State University
April 16
Figuring the Tumor: Self, Objectivity and Photography of Advanced Cancer
Julie Livingston
Professor, History
Rutgers University
April 23
Burning Truth. Testimony, Transition, and Gacaca Trials in Rwanda
Bert Ingelaere
Postdoctoral Research Fellow-FWO
University of Antwerp/KU Leuven, Belgium
April 30
Climate Change and Biodiversity in Africa’s Deepest Lake
Peter McIntyre
Assistant Professor, Zoology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ben Kraemer
Graduate Student, Zoology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
May 7
China in Africa: An African Cartoonist’s View
Godfrey Mwampembwa
Illustrator/cartoonists
National Media Group