Africa at Noon (VIRTUAL): Branding Humanity – Competing Narratives of Rights, Violence and Global Citizenship with Amal Fadlalla
OnlineDate/Time: March 29th 2023, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speaker: Amal Fadlalla, University of Michigan Hosted by: Sam England Zoom: To access the event directly, click here. For dial-in information, click here. BIO Amal Hassan Fadlalla is Professor of …
Africa at Noon: Conflict and Development in Uganda with Jessica R. Hawkins
206 Ingraham Hall 1155 Observatory Drive, Madison, WIDate/Time: April 5th 2023, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speaker: Jessica R. Hawkins, University of Manchester Hosted by: Luís Madureira BIO Jessica received a BA in European Studies with German and Italian from Lancaster University …
ACS Works-in-Progress: Scattered Notes on the Quest for a “More Mozambican Language for the Stage” ⎻ Luís Madureira
1418 Van Hise HallSAVE 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 …
Ainehi Edoro-Glines ⎻ Unruly Archives: Social Media’s Literary Imagination
Memorial UnionWhat does literature bring to our understanding of social media? How does social media open up new ways of understanding literary form? At this in-person Friday Lunch talk, Ainehi Edoro-Glines looks at the ways in …
Africa at Noon: The Morality of Revolution – Reeducation Camps and the Carceral Regime in Socialist Mozambique (1974-1990) with Benedito Machava
206 Ingraham Hall 1155 Observatory Drive, Madison, WIDate/Time: April 12th 2023, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speaker: Benedito Machava, Yale University Hosted by: Luís Madureira BIO Benedito Machava is a historian of colonial and post-colonial Africa. Raised and educated in Mozambique, he …
Africa at Noon: Health Development in Sierra Leone with Alhaji N’jai
206 Ingraham Hall 1155 Observatory Drive, Madison, WIDate/Time: April 19th 2023, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speaker: Alhaji U. N’jai, Project 1808 Hosted by: Luís Madureira BIO Dr. Alhaji U. N’jai is the founder of Project1808, Inc., a US 501(c)(3) and UN …
Brown-Bag & Book Talk ⎻ Katrina Daly Thompson
Religious Studies Conference RoomKatrina Daly Thompson will discuss their new book Muslims on the Margins: Creating Queer Religious Community in North America at a Brown Bag Lunch & Book Talk organized by the UW-Madison Religious Studies Program. All faculty …
Africa at Noon: Teaching and Learning in a Time of Waithood with Carli Coetzee
206 Ingraham Hall 1155 Observatory Drive, Madison, WIDate/Time: April 26th 2023, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speaker: Carli Coetzee, Oxford University Hosted by: Moji Olaniyan BIO Carli Coetzee is a Research Associate at the African Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. …
African 804 Mini-Conference
206 Ingraham Hall 1155 Observatory Drive, Madison, WICajetan Iheka ⎻ In Praise of Wild Ecopedagogy
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140 800 University Avenue, Madison, WIThe late Tẹjumọla Ọlaniyan was an astute theorist of the politics of African cultural forms. With his work on drama, music, and cartoons, Ọlaniyan moved across forms with a clear-eyed, rigorous attention to political forms and …