African Studies Center Hosts Graduate Student Conference
The African Studies Center, an affiliated center of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, hosted its 26th annual graduate student conference in African Studies on March 30-31, 2018.
The conference kicked off on March 30 at 121 Bay State Road with an afternoon of panels followed by the keynote address by Amah Edoh, Assistant Professor of African Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Edoh’s address was entitled “Our Grandmothers’ Cloth: Learning, Forgetting, Remembering in a Material Archive.”
Following Edoh’s address, the conference picked back up on March 31 at the African Studies Center for another afternoon of panels.
The conference was sponsored by GSO; the Department of Anthropology; the Institute for Culture, Religion and World Affairs; Department of Earth and Environment; Global Health Program; Department of History; Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology, the Pardee Center for the Longer Range Future; Department of Religious Studies; World Languages and Literature; Innovate @BU; the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies; and the African Studies Center.
Founded in 1953, the Boston University African Studies Center has provided a strong foundation in African studies to generations of university professors, economists, health workers, government officials, development personnel, diplomats, and numerous others.