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Pan-African Lives, Racial Politics, and Belonging in Africa ⎻ Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué
Pan-African Lives, Racial Politics, and Belonging in Africa ⎻ Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué
Click here to join the meeting Abstract: In 1953, three Ugandans set out in a Peugeot station wagon on a two-month mission trip across Africa. All were recent converts to Baha’ism, a religion founded …
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Africa at Noon: Environmental Governance in Africa with Josh Garoon
Africa at Noon: Environmental Governance in Africa with Josh Garoon
Date/Time: February 1st 2023, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speaker: Josh Garoon - Communication and Environmental Sociology, UW-Madison Hosted by: Luís Madureira BIO I study the ways in which health, development, and the environment intersect …
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ACS Works-in-Progress: “The Evolution of Swahili Islamic Marital Advice, 1932-2020” ⎻ Katrina Daly Thompson
ACS Works-in-Progress: “The Evolution of Swahili Islamic Marital Advice, 1932-2020” ⎻ Katrina Daly Thompson
SAVE THE DATE for the very first presentation of the newly created "ACS Works-in-Progress" ongoing series! "Works-in-Progress" gatherings are monthly symposiums that will give ACS grad students and faculty the opportunity to share their work …
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Africa at Noon: Towards an African Afrofuturism with Warrick Moses
Africa at Noon: Towards an African Afrofuturism with Warrick Moses
Date/Time: February 8th 2023, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speaker: Warrick Moses, African Cultural Studies, UW-Madison Hosted by: Luís Madureira BIO Born and raised in South Africa, Warrick’s primary research interrogates racial and language …
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Africa at Noon: A Reflection on the Recently Concluded Sister City Trip to Kanifing, The Gambia with Rep. Samba Baldeh and Mr. Jerreh Kujabi
Africa at Noon: A Reflection on the Recently Concluded Sister City Trip to Kanifing, The Gambia with Rep. Samba Baldeh and Mr. Jerreh Kujabi
. Date/Time: February 15th 2023, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speakers:Rep. Samba Baldeh and Mr. Jerreh Kujabi, Madison Kanifing Sister City Hosted by: Luís Madureira BIO Samba Baldeh is the …
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Reginold Royston: Digital Diaspora ⎻ Beyond Wakanda Futurism
Reginold Royston: Digital Diaspora ⎻ Beyond Wakanda Futurism
*In-person option has been cancelled due to weather* Attend virtually on Zoom In this talk, Reginold Royston (UW iSchool and African Cultural Studies) will discuss transnational media exchanges between Black Americans, Ghanaian emigres, and continental Africans …
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Africa at Noon: Infrastructural Attachments – Technologies, Mobility, and the Tensions of Home in Colonial & Postcolonial Kenya with Emma Park
Africa at Noon: Infrastructural Attachments – Technologies, Mobility, and the Tensions of Home in Colonial & Postcolonial Kenya with Emma Park
Date/Time: February 22nd 2023, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speaker: Emma Park, New School, NY Hosted by: Daniel Wiliford BIO (Emma Park) is an Assistant Professor of History at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang …
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Africa at Noon: The Archival Possibilities of Social Media with James Yeku
Africa at Noon: The Archival Possibilities of Social Media with James Yeku
Date/Time: March 1st 2023, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speaker: James Yeku, University of Kansas Hosted by: Matthew Brown Talk Description: In Africa, social media is well established as a digital sphere for the production …
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ACS Works-in-Progress: “A Trilogy of Masculinities: Boyhood, Initiates, and Adulthood Masculinities” ⎻ Jacob Muniko Mwita
ACS Works-in-Progress: “A Trilogy of Masculinities: Boyhood, Initiates, and Adulthood Masculinities” ⎻ Jacob Muniko Mwita
SAVE THE DATE for a presentation part of the newly created “ACS Works-in-Progress” ongoing series! “Works-in-Progress” gatherings are monthly symposiums that will give ACS grad students and faculty the opportunity to share their work with …
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Dr. Rebecca Jones ⎻ Crossing borders, encountering others, telling stories: a century of Nigerian travel writing in Yoruba and English (VIRTUAL)
Dr. Rebecca Jones ⎻ Crossing borders, encountering others, telling stories: a century of Nigerian travel writing in Yoruba and English (VIRTUAL)
Join the Zoom meeting (Meeting ID: 964 8250 3467; Passcode: 519001) In this virtual talk, Dr. Rebecca Jones will discuss how Nigerian travel writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have written about the ways …