Date/Time: May 3rd 2023, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speakers: Dr. Julius S.M. Gilayeneh, Sr BIO Dr. Julius S.M. Gilayeneh, Sr. is a Liberian Medical Doctor and public health practitioner with training, experience, and expertise …
Africa at Noon
Teaching and Learning in a Time of Waithood
Date/Time: April 26th 2023, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speakers: Carli Coetzee Talk Description Over the last years, since the start of the global pandemic, many of us have on any given day been able …
Project 1808, Inc, Decolonizing Education and Transforming Lives Through a School-Community- University Model
Date/Time: April 19th 2023, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speakers: Alhaji U. N’jai BIO Dr. Alhaji U. N’jai is the founder of Project1808, Inc., a US 501(c)(3) and UN DPI Associated Nonprofit organization. In 2014 …
The Morality of Revolution: Reeducation Camps and the Carceral Regime in Socialist Mozambique, 1974-1990
Date/Time: April 12th 2023, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speakers: Benedito Machava BIO Benedito Machava is a historian of colonial and post-colonial Africa. Raised and educated in Mozambique, he received his PhD at Michigan University …
Experiential Learning in Humanitarian Studies: Ethics and Discomfort of Student Research Visits to Uganda
Date/Time: April 5th 2023, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speakers: Jessica R. Hawkins BIO Jessica received a BA in European Studies with German and Italian from Lancaster University in 2005 and completed her Masters in …
Beyond Affective Violence: Embodying Suffering, Performing Citizenship (Virtual)
Date/Time: March 29th 2023, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speakers: Amal Fadlalla Zoom: To access the event directly, click here. For dial-in information, click here. BIO Amal Hassan Fadlalla is Professor of Anthropology, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Afroamerican …
Beauty Diplomacy: Embodying an Emerging Nation (Virtual)
Date/Time: March 22nd 2023, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speakers: Kemi Balogun Zoom: To access the event directly, click here. For dial-in information, click here. The event has passed. Recording can be found here. Talk Description: Beauty pageants are big …
̶E̶t̶h̶n̶o̶r̶a̶c̶i̶s̶m̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶S̶e̶t̶t̶l̶e̶r̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶C̶o̶l̶o̶n̶i̶a̶l̶ ̶S̶o̶c̶i̶e̶t̶i̶e̶s̶:̶ ̶T̶h̶e̶ ̶C̶a̶s̶e̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶B̶l̶a̶c̶k̶ ̶I̶m̶m̶i̶g̶r̶a̶n̶t̶s̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶U̶n̶i̶t̶e̶d̶ ̶S̶t̶a̶t̶e̶s̶ ̶(̶C̶a̶n̶c̶e̶l̶e̶d̶)̶
Date/Time: March 8th 2023, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speakers: Mosi Ifatunji BIO Mosi Adesina Ifatunji is an Assistant Professor in the Department of African American Studies and the Department of Sociology at the University …
The Archival Possibilities of Social Media
Date/Time: March 1st 2023, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speakers: James Yékú The event has passed. Recording can be found here. Talk Description: In Africa, social media is well established as a digital sphere for the …
Infrastructural Attachments: Technologies, Mobility, and the Tensions of Home in Colonial and Postcolonial Kenya
Date/Time: February 22nd 2023, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speakers: Emma Park BIO Emma Park is an Assistant Professor of History at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College, where she teaches courses on modern …