Calendar

Saturday, July 18

• 12:00 AM African Festival of Boston

Friday, August 7

• All Day Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows Program concludes

Saturday, August 8

• 2:00 PM Ghana Assoc of Greater Boston Summer Picnic

Wednesday, August 19

• 5:30 PM "Welcome Distinguished Niger Representatives" Hosted by Rain for the Sahel

Wednesday, September 2

• All Day CLASSES BEGIN

Thursday, September 3

• 5:00 PM Pardee MA Student Welcome

Tuesday, September 8

• 4:00 PM African Studies Center Fall Welcome Reception

Monday, September 14

• 12:00 PM Daivi Rodima-Taylor (BU) "Contested Sovereignties and Informal Authority in Post-Socialist Tanzania"

Wednesday, September 16

• 4:30 PM "Moroccan Jews: Destinies Undone" A Film by Younes Laghrari

Thursday, September 17

• 3:00 PM Christopher Day (College of Charleston) "Warlords Rule: The Central African Republic"
• 5:00 PM Pardee School Division of Regional & Thematic Studies Fall Welcome Reception

Monday, September 21

• 12:00 PM Muhammad Zaman (BU) "Bitter Pills: The challenges and impact of a compromised drug supply in Africa"

Tuesday, September 22

• 3:00 PM "From Operation Linda Nchi to Usalama Watch: Local Mainstream Press and the Surge of Terrorism in Kenya”

Wednesday, September 23

• 5:00 PM “Reading and Conversation with Congolese Author Fiston Mwanza Mujila”

Monday, September 28

• 12:00 PM Jennifer Johnson (Yale) "Nyanza is Not Lake Victoria: Ontological Problems and Possibilities Around an Inland African Sea"

Tuesday, September 29

• 3:30 PM Pardee House Book Seminar featuring Prof. James McCann.
• 5:00 PM "African Women Changing the World" Ouseina Alidou (Rutgers), Mojúbàolú Olufúnké Okome (Brooklyn College, CUNY) and Pearl T. Robinson (Tufts)