Calendar

All Topics (February 7 through April 30)

Monday, February 11

12:15 PM “Kwibuka: Divergent Memory and the Quest for Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda" feat. Samantha Lakin

Wednesday, February 20

5:00 PM Writing in Contemporary Francophone Africa

Monday, February 25

12:15 PM “The Space between Borno and Palermo: Slavery and Its Boundaries in the Sixteenth-Century Saharan-Mediterranean Region" feat. Lori de Lucia

Monday, March 4

12:15 PM “When Children Become Ancestors: Death and Dying in Post-Apartheid South Africa" Dr. Abigail H. Neely

Monday, March 18

All Day “The Geographical Dimensions of Senegal's Maritime Spaces" feat. Dr. Karen Barton

Wednesday, March 20

1:00 PM
- Pardee School Event
Research in Comparative Politics Workshop: "What Explains Ethnic Voting?"

Monday, March 25

12:15 PM
- Pardee School Event
“Staging Sufi Stories: Theater and the Murids of Senegal" feat. Dr. Brian Valente-Quinn

Thursday, March 28

6:00 PM Literature and Activism in the Equatorial Guinean Diaspora

Friday, March 29

12:00 PM 27th Annual Graduate Student Conference in African Studies
7:00 PM Liyana (2018)

Monday, April 1

12:15 PM “The Nyayo House Torture Case: A Crucible of Human Rights in Postcolonial Kenya" feat. Dr. Katherine Luongo

Tuesday, April 2

12:00 PM Home and Hearth: Motherland, Mothering and Post-conflict Return to Liberia

Wednesday, April 3

4:00 PM Nimi Wariboko's new book "Ethics and Society in Nigeria: Identity, History, and Political Theory"

Saturday, April 6

9:00 AM Yale Archaeology of Sudan & Nubia Colloquium

Monday, April 8

12:15 PM “‘To Live a Better Life': The Making of a Mozambican Middle Class in Maputo City" feat. Lilly Havstad

Tuesday, April 16

12:15 PM
- Pardee School Event
“Contemporary Artistic Investigations of Morocco: Concrete Territory and Palimpsest of the Sensitive" feat. Dr Nadia Sabri

Monday, April 22

12:15 PM
- Pardee School Event
“‘Arid Fidelity' and ‘Reluctant Capitalists': Independent Record Labels and the Circulation of Tuareg Music" feat. Dr. Eric Schmidt

Monday, April 29

12:15 PM “The Missionary as African Art Collector and Dealer: Dr. George W. Harley in Liberia, 1925-1960" feat. Dr. Christopher B. Steiner