2009-2010
September 17
Professor Pier Larson, History, Johns Hopkins University
“The Multilingual Street”
2773 Haven Hall
October 2
Monica Patterson, Anthropology and History, University of Michigan
“Elusive Truths: The Struggle to Define and Explain Violence in the TRC’s Special Hearing on Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and the Mandela United Football Club”
2773 Haven Hall
October 16
Christian Williams, Anthropology and History, University of Michigan
“Ordering the Nation: SWAPO in Zambia, 1974-1976"
Pedro Monaville, History, University of Michigan
“Congolese Students and the Politics of Disappearance Under Mobutu”
1014 Tisch Hall
October 30
Professor Rudolph (Butch) Ware, History, University of Michigan
“The Longue-Duree of Quran Schooling, Society and State in Senegambia”
2773 Haven Hall
November 5
Professor Patricia Hayes, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
“The Violence is in the Knowing: the Photographs of Santu Mofokeng”
1014 Tisch Hall
January 8
Angela Dowdell, History, University of Michigan
“African Hunters and the Negotiation of Imperial Authority”
1014 Tisch Hall
February 5
Tracy Keith Flemming, History, University of Michigan
“From One Colonial Situation to Another: Politics, Universalism, and the Crisis of the African Intellectual”
1014 Tisch Hall
February 19
Professor Laura Fair, Michigan State University
“Making Love at the Movies: Narrative Engagements and Physical Practices in Tanzania,
1950s-1990s”
1014 Tisch Hall
March 12
Professor Leslie Witz, History, University of the Western Cape
“A new hippo for a new nation: The journey of a natural history museum ‘across the frontier’ in post-apartheid South Africa”
1014 Tisch Hall
March 19 - Eisenberg Institute of Historical Studies
Professor Michael Watts, University of California Berkeley
“Economies of Violence: Some thoughts on Oil Insurgency and Petro-Pirates”
1014 Tisch Hall
March 26
Professor Elizabeth Schmidt, History, Loyola University Maryland
“Popular Resistance and Nationalist Mobilization: The War Effort in French Guinea, 1939-1945”
2773 Haven Hall
April 9
Heloise Finch-Boyer, Anthropology and History, University of Michigan
“Le cyclone ’48: disaster and decolonization in Reunion Island 1946-1954”
1014 Tisch Hall