6102 Social Sciences @ 4:00 pm
Past Events
An Attempt to Shape African Narrative using Colonial Film Material – Katy Lèna Ndiaye
1155 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706, 206 Ingraham Hall @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Photographie : © Nganji – www.nganji.be – Bio Katy Lena Ndiaye is a film director and producer whose films offer a window into contemporary Africa, tracing its journey through history and memory. Her lens has a …
Film Screening: Money, Freedom, a Story of the CFA Franc ⎻ Katy Lèna Ndiaye
Wisconsin Idea Room 159, Education Building (Bascom) @ 4:00 pm
Admission: Free and open to all Film Screening 104 minutes / Color French / English subtitles Release: 2023 MONEY, FREEDOM, A STORY OF THE CFA FRANC features rich archival footage and a wealth of interviews with …
Love of Stone Houses: Ancestral Spaces, Sacred Objects and the Anxious Transformations in Debt, Value and Merchant Insecurities on Africa’s Urban Gold Coast ⎻ Hermann Von Hesse
@ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Representing the Indian Emergency: Literature, Form, and the Present ⎻ Susan Z. Andrade
1418 Van Hise Hall @ 3:30 pm
Representing the Indian Emergency: Literature, Form, and the Present This talk discusses representations of the Indian Emergency in a select number of Indian novels. The Emergency was a 21-month period (from 1975 to 1977) unleashed …
Virtual Lecture and Q&A ⎻ Professor Saheed Aderinto
374 Van Hise Hall @ 1:20 pm - 2:10 pm
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Department of African Cultural Studies hosts a brief virtual lecture and Q&A section with the winner of the Dan David Prize, the world’s largest history prize, and producer and director of The Fuji Documentary, Professor …
Mapping Senufo: African Arts & Ways of Knowing ⎻ Susan Gagliardi
Elvehjem Building, Room L140, 800 University Avenue @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Congo Logic: Contemporary Arts & Colonial Pasts ⎻ Dr. Elaine Sullivan
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, L140 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Disruptive Ecologies: African Literature and the Environmental Humanities ⎻ Kirk B. Sides
Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St. (Room Information Shared Upon Registration) @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
CHE Friday Lunch: Kirk B. Sides Disruptive Ecologies: African Literature and the Environmental Humanities This Friday Lunch talk will examine some of the ways in which African literatures have interacted with, and even prefigured, trends …
Hip Hop, Performance, and the Embodying of Multiple Identities in East Africa ⎻ Mwenda Ntarangwi
@ 12:30 pm
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Abstract of Talk The development and expansion of hip hop in East Africa has opened up many opportunities for youth to create and perform music while embodying multiple identities and values. In this talk I …
