SPRING 2020 AFRICA AT NOON EVENTS

JANUARY 29

A.C. Jordan Lecture “’We are All Rwandan’: Identifying and Indexing the People Formerly Known as Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa”

Kathryn Mara

PhD Candidate in African Cultural Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison


FEBRUARY 5

“Goal Dreams: Conflicting Development Imaginaries in Ghanaian Football Academies”

Itamar Dubinsky

Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Philosophy, and Religion, Oregon State University | Honorary fellow at the UW-Madison African Studies Program


FEBRUARY 12

“Angolan Radio in Five Songs”

Marissa J. Moorman

Associate Professor of History, IU-Bloomington

 


FEBRUARY 19

“Genetic Ancestry and Political Subjectivity in Postapartheid South Africa”

Noah Tamarkin

Assistant Professor of Comparative Studies, The Ohio State University


FEBRUARY 26

“Kwaito Bodies: Remastering Space and Subjectivity in Postapartheid South Africa”

Xavier Livermon

Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies, UT-Austin


MARCH 4

“A Dream House: A Literary Ethnography of Aging in Place in South Africa”

Casey Golomski

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of New Hampshire


POSTPONED UNTIL OCTOBER 7TH

“Wartime Experiences of Civic Leaders: Legacies of Civil War in Sub-Saharan Africa”

Justine M. Davis

PhD Candidate in Political Science, University of California, Berkeley


SPRING BREAK | NO AFRICA AT NOON

 

 

 


CANCELED: MARCH 25

“Alchemy In The Art Studio: The Case of KNUST Art”

Dorothy Amenuke

Lecturer in the Department of Painting and Sculpture, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana


POSTPONED UNTIL OCTOBER 14TH

“Intimacy and Empire: Creating Over-lapping Diasporas in Postcolonial Nigeria”

Judith Byfield

Professor of History, Cornell University


CANCELED: APRIL 8

“Rebuilding a Model Surveillance System after Ebola- The National Public Health Institute of Liberia”

Mosoka P. Fallah

Deputy Director General, Epidemiologist, Immunologist, Consultant
National Public Health Institute of Liberia


CANCELED: APRIL 15

“A Conversation about Women, Writing, and Leadership in Uganda”

Goretti Kyomuhendo and Hilda Twongyeirwe


CANCELED: APRIL 22

“Our Own Way in the Part of the World: Biography of an African Community, Culture, Nation”

Kwasi Konadu

 


CANCELED: APRIL 29

“Varieties of African Developmentalism”

Dr. Pritish Behuria

Hallsworth Research Fellow in Political Economy at the University of Manchester’s Global Development Institute