Calendar

Monday, October 27

• 12:00 PM "Narratives of Violence Along the Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline" Amber Murrey (Oxford/Boston College)

Tuesday, October 28

• 3:00 PM African Studies Graduate Student Meeting

Wednesday, October 29

• 2:00 PM "Shame and Honor: The Everyday Practice of Accountability in African Democracies" Jeffrey Paller (Bates)

Thursday, October 30

• 2:00 PM "Ebola: Pathology, Politics & Policy"

Friday, October 31

• 12:00 PM Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows Information Session

Monday, November 3

• 12:00 PM "Governing Congo: states, non-states, and local realities." Laura E. Seay (Colby College)

Wednesday, November 5

• 4:00 PM African Literature Group meeting

Thursday, November 6

• 6:00 PM POSTPONED: "Sacred Rice: Environmental Change and Structural Uncertainty in Rural West Africa" Joanna Davidson (BU Anthro)

Monday, November 10

• 11:45 AM
• 12:00 PM “Militarized Masculinities, Heroes and Gender Inequality during and after Nationalist Struggles in Southern Africa: the Zimbabwe Case” Jane Parpart (U. Mass. Boston)
• 1:00 PM Pneumonia: A Priority for Europe and the World, for both the Young and the Old

Thursday, November 13

• 5:00 PM Sea Level Rise & the Future of Coastal Cities: Mayors Roundtable
• 5:30 PM Shobana Shankar (Stonybrook) "'Pagans' in Northern Nigeria: Colonial Policies and the Death of Pluralism"

Friday, November 14

• All Day Sea Level Rise & the Future of Coastal Cities
• 2:00 PM African Language Program Open House

Monday, November 17

• 12:00 PM "Registration of religious groups in Africa: Historical and political vagaries." Rosalind Hackett (Harvard Divinity School/U. of Tennessee)

Tuesday, November 18

• 12:30 PM "Memories of Slavery and French Public Discourse: A Lecture by Françoise Vergès"

Thursday, November 20

• 12:00 PM
• The Ebola Crisis: Examining the Legacy of Infectious Disease Outbreaks
• 12:30 PM "Has the Crisis Changed the IMF?" Cornel Ban, Kevin Gallagher and Strom Thacker
• 3:00 PM "Rebel Groups: Should We Support Them? When? How?"

Monday, December 1

• All Day World AIDS Day Benefit Gala
• 12:00 PM "In the town where youth ruled their fathers: reimagining reconciliation in a postwar Sierra Leonean community" Rosalind Shaw (Tufts)

Monday, December 8

• 12:00 PM "African Children Talk, and Adults Learn to Listen" Sam Kauffmann (Boston University)