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