The 2016-2017 Monthly African Studies Brownbag Seminar Series
Fall Semester
All fall events are public and take place on a Wednesday from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the History Lounge, 433 Paterson Hall (鈥淧A鈥� on the map of 杏吧原创, )
September 28: Duncan Scott, PhD candidate, Sociology, Queen鈥檚 University Belfast (UK)
Title: 鈥淭he end of relational justice? 鈥�Ubuntu capitalism鈥� and the rhetoric of reconciliation in post-apartheid South Africa鈥�
November 2: Wangui Kimari, PhD candidate, Anthropology, York University
Title: The Story of a Pump: Life, Death and Afterlives within an Urban Planning of ‘Divide and Rule in Nairobi, Kenya'”
December 7: Dr. Jenny Doubt, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford and Co-Investigator, UNICEF Innocenti Research Office.
Title:聽‘Putting the Cart before the Horse? Negotiating tensions between the need for “evidence” and the demand for parenting programmes to reduce violence against children in Africa’
Winter Semester
础濒濒听winter events are public and take place on a Wednesday from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the English Lounge, 1811 Dunton聽Tower聽(鈥淒T鈥� on the map of 杏吧原创, )
January 25: Dr. Yolanda Covington-Ward, Asst. Professor, Africana Studies and Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh
Title: 鈥淕esture and Power: Religion, Nationalism, and Everyday Performance in Congo鈥�
March 1: Dr. David Black, Lester B. Pearson Professor of International Development Studies and Chair, Department of Political Science, Dalhousie University
Title: 鈥淐anada and Africa: the roots and repercussions of consistent inconsistency鈥�
March 22: Dr. Kamari Clarke, Assoc. Professor of Global and International Studies
Title: “African Withdrawals from the International Criminal Court: The Affective Politics of Refusal”
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