The 2018-2019 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 Discovery Centre, Room 482 MacOdrum Library  (“MC” on the map of Ӱԭ, )

September 19: Jane Parpart, Professor Emeritus, IAS Adjunct Researcher and former Lester Pearson Chair in International Development at Dalhousie University

վٱ:“Beyond the Binary: Rethinking Silence, Voice and Power in a Gendered and Insecure World”

October 31: Annette Isaac, Adjunct Research Professor and former Instructor in the Department of Political Science at Ӱԭ.

Title: “Missing The Cues. Tales of a Newcomer’s Life in Canada”

November 14: Logan Cochrane, Banting Fellow, Global and International Studies, Ӱԭ University

Title: “Bottom-up Change in a Top-down Government: Changing Policy and Law in Ethiopia”

December 12: Moses Galadima, Postdoc Fellow, Institute of African Studies, Ӱԭ University

Title: “Title to be Announced” – CANCELLED

Winter Semester

winter events are public and take place on a Wednesday from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in either The Arts Lounge in 2017 Dunton Tower or Discovery Centre in the MacOdrum Library – Room 482 (“DT” or “ML” on the map of Ӱԭ, )

January 23: Nimo Bokore, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, Ӱԭ University.

Title:Somali Studies in Canada: Resilience and Resistance

February 13: Grace Adeniyi Ogunyankin, Assistant Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, The Pauline Jewett Institute, Ӱԭ University.

Title: “Look at their Clothes!”: Sartorial identity and Afropolitanism in An African City

March 20: Cajetan Iheka, Assistant Professor, Department of English, at the University of Alabama

Title: “Title to be Announced”

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