February 2023
Fortress Earth: Conservation, Conviviality, and the Political Ecology of Planetary Health
Date/Time: February 1st 2023, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speakers: Josh Garoon BIO I study the ways in which health, development, and the environment intersect across Africa and the United States, and how those intersections…
Find out more »Towards an African Afrofuturism
Date/Time: February 8th 2023, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speakers: Warrick Moses BIO Born and raised in South Africa, Warrick’s primary research interrogates racial and language identity within the “mixed race” or "Coloured" hiphop community…
Find out more »Madison Sister’s Cities: A Reflection on the Recently Concluded Sister City Trip to Kanifing, The Gambia
Date/Time: February 15th 2023, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speakers:Rep. Samba Baldeh and Mr. Jerreh Kujabi BIO Samba Baldeh is the Representative for the 48th Assembly District in the State Legislature. This district includes the…
Find out more »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…
Find out more »March 2023
The Archival Possibilities of Social Media
Date/Time: March 1st 2023, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speakers: James Yékú Talk Description: In Africa, social media is well established as a digital sphere for the production and circulation of new genres and textual…
Find out more »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. Talk Description: Beauty pageants are big business in Nigeria. They are transformed by multiple…
Find out more »Branding Humanity: Competing Narratives of Rights, Violence, and Global 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…
Find out more »April 2023
Conflict and Development in Uganda
Date/Time: April 5th 2023, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speakers: Jessica R. Hawkins BIO Jessica R. Hawkins is Senior Lecturer in Humanitarian Studies at the Humanitarian Conflict Response Institute at the University of Manchester. Jessica’s…
Find out more »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…
Find out more »Health Development in Sierra Leone
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…
Find out more »Teaching and Learning in a Time of Waithood
Date/Time: April 26th 2023, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speakers: Carli Coetzee BIO Carli Coetzee is a Research Associate at the African Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on African literature…
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