Winter 2025
January 14 (DAAS Africa Workshop, 4pm)
Teddy Mattera
“Waiting for Valdez” (film)
January 28
Graduate Student Grant Workshop
February 11
Zoe Berman (University of Michigan)
“‘We are all Goyi now’: The Politics of Unity and Memory in a Rwandan Borderland.”
February 25
Victor Gwande (University of the Free State)
"‘Under the crisis, a new country is emerging’: “mbingas” and new livelihoods in Zimbabwe since the 2000s."
March 11
Edgar Taylor (Makerere University)
"Archival Ambivalence: Status and Secrecy in Ugandan State Archives."
March 18 (DAAS Africa Workshop, 4pm)
Benedito Machava (Yale University)
TBC
March 25
Mingwei Huang (Dartmouth University)
“Subterranean Traces: Unearthing Death and Disposability in the Ruins of the Mine.”
April 1 (DAAS Africa Workshop, 4pm)
Sean Jacobs
April 15
Charles Lwanga (University of Michigan)
TBC
April 22
Andrew State (Makerere University)
TBC
Fall 2024
9/10: Kelly Askew (University of Michigan)
'Collective Land Rights’ Reconsidered: Institutional Innovations from Tanzania'
9/26: Steven Feld (University of New Mexico), co-sponsored with the Department of Anthropology Sensory and Technology Lab)
'pygmy STORIES'
10/1: Nana Quarshie (Yale University)
'Consciencism in Crisis: The African Personality in Independent Ghana'
10/15: Lwasampijja Anatoli (UMAPS/Makerere University)
'The Catholic Church and the Path to Independence: Archbishop Kiwanuka’s Vision for Faith and Civic Engagement'
10/26: Omolade Adunbi (University of Michigan)
'Escravos and Forcados: Crude and the Racial Construction of Oil Enclaves in Nigeria'
11/19: Marlotte de Jong (University of Michigan)
'Watch for Black Spots”: Interrogating the spatiality and temporality of livelihood security in coastal Kenya'
11/26: Monica Naluwoza (Makerere University/Aberystwyth University)
Cancelled
12/10: Megan Vaughan (University College London)
'A Colonial Metabolism : Food, Nutrition and Extraction in Malawi'