JANUARY 24
Gallery Tour, Whirling Return of the Ancestors
Henry Drewal
Evjue-Bascom Professor, African and African Diaspora Art History
University of Wisconsin-Madison
JANUARY 31
“Africa’s First Failed Asylum Seeker? The Tragic Plight of Dugmore Boetie and the Exilic Geographies of Sharpeville”
Benjamin N. Lawrance
Professor, History
University of Arizona
FEBRUARY 7
“Cranes: Flagships for Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Development in Africa”
Richard Beilfuss
President & CEO
International Crane Foundation
FEBRUARY 14
“Obroni and the Chocolate Factory: A Case Study of Ghana, Globalization and Cocoa”
Steve Wallace
Founder and President
The Omanhene Cocoa Bean Company
FEBRUARY 21
“The Meanings of Matrimonial Expenditures in Egypt: Enactments of Class and Gender”
Rania Salem
Assistant Professor, Sociology
University of Toronto
FEBRUARY 28
“The Deep History of 419: Law and Crime in the Nigerian Civil War”
Samuel Childs Daly
Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies
Duke University
MARCH 7
“An African Imagination: The Spirit Work of Fi Yi Yi and the Mandingo Warriors”
Rachel Breunlin
Director of the Neighborhood Story Project
Department of Anthropology University of New Orleans
MARCH 14
“Shaky Deals?: Domestic/Diasporan Agro-Investors and Tensions Between Developmentalism and Neopatrimonialism in Ethiopian Land Concessions”
Sarah Stefanos
PhD Candidate and Recipient of the 2017 Jordan Prize
University of Wisconsin-Madison
MARCH 21
“Why Africa Matters to U.S. National Security”
Grant Harris
CEO of Harris Africa Partners LLC
Former Senior Advisor on Africa to President Obama
APRIL 4
“Dust of the Zulu: Ngoma Aesthetics after Apartheid”
Louise Meintjes
Associate Professor of Music and Cultural Anthropology
Duke University
APRIL 11
“Portrait of Rural Egyptian Women: Peaceful Voices from Siwa Oasis, Upper Egypt and Nubia”
Manal Kabesh
Associate Professor of Teaching English as a Foreign Language and Curriculum Development and Methods of Teaching
National Center for Educational Research and Development in Cairo, Egypt
APRIL 11
“The Many Africas of the Grey Parrot”
Nancy Jacobs
Professor, History
Brown University