October 2022
Radiant Matter: The Long Shadow of French Nuclear Imperialism in the Living Sahara
Date/Time: October 5th 2022, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speakers: Jill Jarvis PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION Prof. Jarvis’s talk explores the critical possibilities of aesthetic representation for apprehending and addressing the slow violence of French nuclear imperialism…
Find out more »Nikumbuke: Health and the UN Development Goals by Motorbike
Date/Time: October 12th 2022, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speakers: Bendettah Muthina Thomas Presentation Description: In her talk, Bendettah will share her personal and professional stories of engagement with Global Health through her collaboration with…
Find out more »West African Roots of Pan-Africanism
Date/Time: October 19th 2022, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speakers: Rebecca Shumway BIO Rebecca Shumway is a historian of 18th and 19th century West Africa and the Atlantic World with a focus on coastal Ghana…
Find out more »How Jesus Became Black: Kongo’s Discovery of its Role in the Creation and Nativity Stories (Virtual)
Date/Time: October 26th 2022, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speakers: John K. Thornton Zoom: To access the event directly, click here. For dial-in information, click here. BIO John Thornton is primarily an Africanist, with a specialty in the history…
Find out more »November 2022
Ndau Transnational Spirits, Languages, and Identities in Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Date/Time: November 2nd 2022, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speakers: Emmanuel Sithole BIO Emmanuel Sithole is a budding Zimbabwean scholar who is currently pursuing a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Northwest University in South Africa. He…
Find out more »Education as a tool for sustainable community development: A Sierra Leone Case Study
Date/Time: November 30th 2022, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speakers: Alhaji Njai
Find out more »December 2022
“What Comes After Representation?”
Date/Time: December 7th 2022, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speakers: Sean Jacobs PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION I will talk about the politics of my research practice, Africa Is a Country, which I founded in 2009 to challenge…
Find out more »Meaning-less-ness
Date/Time: December 14th 2022, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speakers: Vlad Dima Photo: Meaninglessness: Time, Rhythm, and the Undead in in Postcolonial Cinema BIO Vlad Dima is a Professor of African Cultural Studies at the…
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