2015-2016
September 15th
Sara Berry (Academy Professor and Emeritus Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University)
Title: ‘Land access, Use and Control in Africa: The Last 25 years’ (Africa Workshop)
September 29th
Juan Obarrio (Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University)
Title: ‘State of things and secrecy in Northern Mozambique’
October 13th
Greg Mitman (Vilas Research and William Coleman Professor of the History of Science, Medical History, and Environmental Studies, Department of Medical History and Bioethics University of Wisconsin at Madison), film screening of ‘In the Shadow of Ebola’, written and directed by Greg Mitman and Sarita Siegel (Africa Workshop)
October 27th
Lawrence Ocen (UMAPS Fellow, Makerere University)
Title: ‘Author, Object, and Text: Literary Reading of War Monuments in Northern Uganda’
Semeneh Ayalew Asfaw (UMAPS Fellow, Makerere University)
Title: ‘A Historiographical Critique of the Ethiopian Revolution’
November 16th-18th (in Tisch 1014)
‘History after EP Thompson’, a workshop with the Wits Institute for Social & Economic Research. More information and a full program can be found athttp://wiser.wits.ac.za/event/history-after-ep-thompson.
November 17th
Hlonipha Mokoena (Associate Professor, Wits Institute for Social & Economic Research)
Title: ‘Zuluness on Trial: Re-reading John W. Colenso’s 1874 Langalibalele and the Amahlubi Tribe Being Remarks Upon the Official Record’ (Africa Workshop/AHAW)
November 24th
Brian Stewart (Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department, U-M)
Title: ‘Primordialism and the “Pleistocene San” of southern Africa’
December 1st
Jatin Dua (Anthropology Department, U-M)
Title: ‘Encounters at Sea: Piracy as Protection in the Western Indian Ocean’