Decentering Europe • Europe & Africa (Spring 2025)
The aim of the Decentering Europe initiative at BU’s Center for the Study of Europe is to promote a critical understanding of Europe through its complex heritage, which owes its richness to countless contributions from other regions of the world, including Africa. In an increasingly multipolar world, we believe Europe can only be understood in relation to other sites of socio-cultural production, political engagement, and economic transformation.
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Tuesday, March 18 • 12:30 to 1:45 PM
Brooke Durham, Assistant Professor of History, Boston University
“Facing Inequity: NGO Perspectives on Decolonization in Algeria”
Moderated by Sarah Benhalimam, MA in International Affairs student & Dean’s Ambassador, Pardee School of Global Studies
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Monday, March 24 • 5 to 6:30 PM
Nathalie Etoké, Professor of Francophone and Africana Studies, Graduate Center, CUNY
“Poetics of Survival and Becoming in Francophone African Rap”
Moderated by Odile Cazenave, Professor of French, Boston University
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Wednesday, April 9 • 5 to 6:30 PM
Mame-Fatou Niang, Associate Professor of French & Francophone Studies and Director-Founder of the Center for Black European Studies & the Atlantic (CBESA)
“Institutionalizing Black Europe: The Center for Black European Studies at Carnegie Mellon University”
Moderated by Odile Cazenave, Professor of French, Boston University
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Tuesday, April 22 • 12:30 to 1:45 PM
Daniela Caruso, Professor of Law Emerita, Boston University
“Colonialism and EU Law: The Case of Algerian Wine”
Moderated by Vesko Garčević, Director, Center for the Study of Europe and Professor of the Practice of International Relations, Pardee School of Global Studies
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Tuesday, April 29 • 12:30 to 1:45 PM
Celeste Curington, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Boston University
“Laboring in the Shadow of Empire: Cabo Verdean Care Workers in Portugal”
Moderated by Molly Monet-Viera, Molly Monet-Viera, Master Lecturer of Spanish, Boston University
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Decentering Europe • Europe & Africa • Spring 2025
