January 27
“Multilingualism, Language Planning, Security, Terrorism, and Police Communication”
Sinfree Makoni
Associate Professor, Applied Linguists and African Studies
Pennsylvania State University
February 3
NO AFRICA AT NOON
February 10
“’Mau Mau are Angels… Sent by Haile Selassie’: Beyond the Nation in Africa and the Caribbean”
Myles Osborne
Associate Professor, Department of History
University of Colorado Boulder
February 17
“Mandehandeha Mahita Raha: New Immigrant Destinations and Madagascar’s Pivot to China”
Laura Tilghman
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Plymouth State University
February 24
Putting Global Health Norms in Place: Policy Translation and Community Participation in Malawi
Anna West
Department of Anthropology
William Paterson University
March 2
Pastoralism at Luxmanda, Tanzania: Ethnography and the Inexplicable Archaeological Record
Kate Grillo
Assistant Professor, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
March 9
“He Was Going To Kill Me, I Persevered: Domestic Violence and the Assertion of Custom In Malawian Courts”
Anika Wilson
Associate Professor, Department of Africology
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
March 16
“Bringing Plaatje Back Home”
Karen Haire
Associate Professor, Departments of English, French, History, Sociology, and Anthropology
Principia College
March 30
Conversations: Jean-Pierre Bekolo and Cinema
Jean-Pierre Bekolo
Film Director
April 6th
“Uncovering New Stories of the Human Past in South Africa”
John Hawks
Department of Anthropology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
April 13
NO AFRICA AT NOON
April 20th
“Chinese and Nigerian Textile Manufacture and Trade”
Elisha P. Renne
Departments of Afroamerican and African Studies/Anthropology
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
April 27
“When A Novel Goes Global: Scale, Form, and Formation in Tawfiq al-Hakim’s Bird of the East (1938)”
Nirvana Tanoukhi
Professor, Department of English
University of Wisconsin-Madison
May 4
NO AFRICA AT NOON
Formerly known as Sandwich Seminar, this weekly lecture series brings Africa research in any discipline, whether finished or continuing, to an audience of faculty, staff, students, and the community in a relaxed setting. The African Studies Program invites speakers from the University of Wisconsin faculty and staff, from the faculties of colleges and universities around the world, and occasionally from among our graduate students, independent scholars, and persons working in government, foundations, charitable organizations, and the private sector.