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Latest News

NEH ʿAjamī Research Project Now Live

October 3, 2019

ASC Signs MOU with University for Development Studies, Ghana

September 13, 2019

African Language Assessment Guide by Jennifer J. Yanco Now Available

September 6, 2019

Calendar

  • 2/24 Rodney Seminar: “(Re)constructing the Congolese State: International Interventions and Informal Governance"
  • 2/24 GEGI Seminar: Give and Take: Developmental Foreign Aid and the Pharmaceutical Industry in East Africa    
  • 3/6 CURA Colloquium: Are Minorities (In)Tolerant like Everyone Else?: Evidence from a Survey of American Muslims
  • 3/16 Rodney Seminar: “Communographies: Histories of Healing, Religion, Politics, and Decolonization in Africa"
  • 3/18 Decolonization @ 60: A Workshop

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