2014-2015

September 30^th

Jean Allman (Washington University in St. Louis)

‘Toward an Intimate History of the African Revolution: Kwame Nkrumah and the Women in Question’

October 21^st

Sharon Hutchinson (University of Wisconsin at Madison)

‘Violence, Ethnicity and Prophecy: Nuer Struggles with Uncertainty in South Sudan’

December 2^nd

Muchaparara Musemwa (University of the Witwatersrand, UMAPS Scholar)

'The Politics of Water Management in Zimbabwe’

January 16^th (co-sponsored with Environmental History Interest Group)

Graduate student workshop with James McCann (Boston University), Emily Merchant (UM History) and Robyn d’Avignon (Antro-History, UM)

January 20^th

Robyn d’Avignon (Anthro-History program, U-M), ‘Criminal Customs: French West Africa's Dual Mineral Regime, 1980-1945’

Shana Melnysyn, (Anthro-History program, U-M), ‘Colonial Memory, Oral History, and Political Conflict in Angola’

January 27^th

Pedro Monaville (History, U-M), ‘Love and the Congolese Revolution’

Edgar Taylor, (Anthro-History program, U-M), ‘Subaltern Surveillance, Disciplinary Violence, and the Anti-Asian Boycott of 1959/1960’

February 3^rd

Robert Wyrod (Women’s Studies, UM), ‘Providing in Poverty: The Entanglement of Masculinity, Sexuality, and Work’

February 24^th

Priya Nelson (associate editor for Anthropology and African Studies, University of Chicago Press)

March 17^th

Jonathon Glassman (History, Northwestern University), ‘Barbarism, autochthony, and the problem of race in African thought’

March 24^th

Susann Baller (Swiss National Fund fellow), ‘Ceremonial Politics and Border Production: Travels and State Visits of West African Politicians during the Decolonization Period, 1958-62’

March 31^st

Jon Soske (History, McGill University), ‘From Settler to Indigene? Non-racialism and Multi-Racial Democracy in South and East Africa’

April 14^th

Natasha Vally (Visiting Scholar, University of the Witwatersand), ‘Hardwear: Repair and Maintenance in the Delivery of State Social Assistance in South Africa

Nana Quarshie, (Anthro-History program, U-M), ‘Petitioning for the Release of Suspected Lunatics in the Gold Coast, 1936 – 1946’