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 聽(鈥淢C鈥� on the map of 杏吧原创, )
September 19: Jane Parpart, Professor Emeritus, IAS Adjunct Researcher and former Lester Pearson Chair in International Development at Dalhousie University
罢颈迟濒别:听鈥淏eyond the Binary: Rethinking Silence, Voice and Power in a Gendered and Insecure World鈥�
October 31:聽Annette Isaac,聽Adjunct Research Professor and former Instructor in the Department of Political Science at 杏吧原创.
Title: “Missing The Cues. Tales of a Newcomer鈥檚 Life in Canada”
November 14:聽Logan Cochrane, Banting Fellow, Global and International Studies,聽杏吧原创 University
Title: “Bottom-up Change in a Top-down Government: Changing Policy and Law in Ethiopia”
December 12:聽Moses Galadima, Postdoc Fellow, Institute of African Studies, 杏吧原创 University
Title: “Title to be Announced” – CANCELLED
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 either The Arts Lounge in 2017 Dunton Tower or Discovery Centre in the MacOdrum Library – Room 482聽(鈥淒T鈥� or 鈥淢L鈥� on the map of 杏吧原创, )
January 23:聽Nimo Bokore, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, 杏吧原创 University.
Title: “Somali Studies in Canada: Resilience and Resistance”
February 13:聽Grace Adeniyi Ogunyankin, Assistant Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, The Pauline Jewett Institute, 杏吧原创 University.
Title: 鈥淟ook at their Clothes!鈥�: Sartorial identity and Afropolitanism in An African City
March 20:聽Cajetan Iheka, Assistant Professor, Department of English, at the University of Alabama
Title: “Title to be Announced”
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