2011-2012
* Unless otherwise indicated, all events take place on Tuesday afternoon from 4-6 pm in the DAAS Seminar Room *
Graduate Student Coordinators: Emma Park (emlopa@umich.edu) and Jon Shaw (jonathan.e.shaw@gmail.com)
Faculty Coordinator: Nancy Rose Hunt (nrhunt@umich.edu)
Fall:
Sept. 13 Joint AHAW and DAAS Africa Workshop
James Ferguson, Stanford University, Department of Anthropology
Title: “Give a Man a Fish: The New Politics of Distribution in Southern Africa (and Beyond)”
Oct. 4 AHAW Grant/Fellowship Workshop
Oct. 25 AHAW Workshop co-sponsored by the Science, Technology and Society (STS) Program, the Program in Society and Medicine (PSM) and the University of Michigan Medical School
Sloan Mahone, University of Oxford, Department of History
Title: “Headache, Trauma and Trepanning in Modern Western Kenya.”
Nov. 8 AHAW Workshop
Sarah Hillewaert, University of Michigan, Department of Anthropology
Title: TBA
Nov. 29 AHAW Workshop
Andrew Ivaska, Concordia University, Department of History
Title: “Exile and the Everyday in 1960s Dar es Salaam: Transnational Activist Politics on a Cold War Frontier”
Winter:
Jan. 24 AHAW Workshop
Nancy Jacobs, Brown University, Department of History
Title: "Birders of a Feather: Stories of People, Birds, and Other People in Africa."
Feb. 21 AHAW Workshop
Sipokazi Sambumbu, University of the Western Cape and Presidential Scholar at the University of Michigan
Title: TBA
Apr. 13-14: A Two Day Workshop on Methods and Concepts
Luise White, University of Florida, Department of History
David Schoenbrun, Northewestern University, Department of History
Locations: TBA
** All papers will be posted on the AHAW website at least one week prior to scheduled events and will be emailed on request