Calendar

All Topics (September 15 through November 13)

Friday, September 15

9:30 AM Time to Walk the Walk: BU’s Climate Action Plan
1:00 PM Assessing the impact of transnational religious soft power: theoretical and methodological issues
3:00 PM 1st Annual Bradford Morse Alumni Lecture
4:00 PM Annual Fall Reception

Monday, September 18

12:15 PM RODNEY SEMINAR: John Thornton (BU History) "Another Look at the Origins of Kongo: 1270-1550"

Tuesday, September 19

4:00 PM SMSC Annual Faculty Associates Meeting & Reception

Wednesday, September 20

4:00 PM Pardee Works: How to Ace the Foreign Service Exam with Ambassador Jon Danilowicz

Thursday, September 21

4:00 PM Reducing Emissions by Pricing Carbon: How Microsoft and Yale are leading the charge

Monday, September 25

12:15 PM RODNEY SEMINAR: Dan Connell (Visiting Researcher) "Breaking the Eritrea-Ethiopia Deadlock"

Tuesday, September 26

4:00 PM Pardee Works: Career Opportunities in the CIA and DIA

Thursday, September 28

4:00 PM Economic Expansions, Past and Present: How America’s Experience Connects to Modern-Day China

Monday, October 2

12:15 PM RODNEY SEMINAR: Susanne D. Mueller (Visiting Researcher) "High-stakes Ethnic Politics in Kenya"

Wednesday, October 4

12:00 PM Operational Response to Climate Change

Monday, October 9

All Day NO RODNEY SEMINAR TODAY!

Tuesday, October 10

12:15 PM RODNEY SEMINAR: Nimi Wariboko (BU Theology) "God Killed! God Interrupted, Long Live the People!: Political Theory in Religious Act"

Monday, October 16

12:15 PM RODNEY SEMINAR: Andrew Bank "Pioneers of the Field: South Africa's Women Anthropologists"

Monday, October 23

12:15 PM RODNEY SEMINAR: Michael J. Sheridan "Social Landscapes in the Cameroon Grassfields: Power, order, and meaning"

Tuesday, October 24

6:00 PM Climate Action Plan Public Forum

Wednesday, October 25

12:00 PM Integrating Science, Health & Policy to Engineer Global Sustainable Water Access

Friday, October 27

All Day FMHT: Disrupting the Human Trafficking - Migration Nexus

Monday, October 30

12:15 PM RODNEY SEMINAR: Amah Edoh "Designing Dutch Wax cloth, imag(in)ing African futures"

Wednesday, November 1

4:00 PM African Literature Reading Group

Monday, November 6

12:15 PM RODNEY SEMINAR: Anna Herforth "New tools to track affordability of nutritious diets in Africa "

Wednesday, November 8

4:00 PM Queen of Katwe screening

Monday, November 13

12:15 PM RODNEY SEMINAR: Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga "Reading Amilcar Cabral: Renewing Africa's Doer-Thinker Tradition"