1418 Van Hise Hall @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Past Events
Eric Boansi Agyekum ⎻ Political Polarization, Fact-Checking, and Misinformation in Ghana
Community Room A – The Atrium, South Madison Partnership, 2238 South Park St., Madison, WI 53713 @ 5:00 pm
Talk Description Recent presidential and parliamentary elections in Ghana show that the country is increasingly becoming politically polarized. Beyond politics, there are other lines of division such as ethnicity, religion, cultural and territorial differences. Dis/misinformation …
Olusegun Soetan & Eric Adjetey ⎻ Afterlife: Death and Burial Ceremonies in West African Cultures
206 Ingraham Hall @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Speaker Bios Olusegun Soetan Olusegun Soetan is a film specialist and a cultural studies scholar focusing on Nollywood, Global Anglophone auteur cinema, African oral literature, and witchcraft …
AFI Feminist Dialogue with Nneoma Onwuegbuchi
Online @ 8:00 am
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“‘Male Barbies’: Trans Identities, Body Politics, and Social Media in Africa” This talk explores the representations of trans women in various social media outlets and how African expressive cultures, specifically fashion rituals—such as clothing practices …
Renaming the Fetish in the Eighteenth-Century African Atlantic – Dr. Matthew Francis Rarey (Oberlin College)
Elvehjem Building, Room L160, 800 University Avenue @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Practice Job Talk (Title TBA) and Q&A – Michael Oshindoro
1418 Van Hise @ 11:30 am
How Bureaucrats Culturally Entrench Inequalities in Refugee Resettlement – Jake Watson
206 Ingraham Hall @ 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-bureaucrats-culturally-entrench-inequalities-in-refugee-resettlement-tickets-1060908890049
According to formal discourse, refugee resettlement is “a life saving measure to ensure the protection of those most at risk of harm and whose lives often depend on it.” In practice, however, most spaces go …
Complexifying Language Teacher Wellbeing: Clarifying Constructs, Advancing Theory, and Setting a Research Agenda
Online @ 9:30 am - 10:30 am
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An invited lecture for the SLA Talk Series on emotion research in SLA Dr. Sarah Mercer Professor, Foreign Language Teaching Head, Department of English Language Teaching (ELT) Research and Methodology University of Graz About the …
DAHOMEY: Cinematheque Film Screening
4070 Vilas Hall @ 7:00 pm
Displacement, and the Delusion of Development: Cahora Bassa and its Legacies in Mozambique ⎻ Allen & Barbara Isaacman
206 Ingraham Hall @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Speakers’ Bio Professor Barbara Isaacman and Professor Allen Isaacman have co-authored a number of publications, including The Tradition of Resistance in Mozambique: The Zambesi Valley, 1850-1921, University of California Press (1976), Mozambique: …