2016-2017

AHAW workshops are in bold; DAAS workshops in italics

September 27

Amanda Alexander (DAAS post-doc) “ ‘To All Who Live In It’: Crime, Prisons, and Development in Post-Apartheid South Africa”

October 11

George Njung (History PhD Candidate – UM) “ ‘From frying pan to fire’: Dissenting Voices and the Anglo-French bifurcation of Post WWI Cameroon, 1916-1919” in 5511 Haven Hall

Lamin Manneh (History PhD Pre-Candidate – UM), "Strangers planting the seeds of an Islamic revival" in 5511 Haven Hall

October 25

DAAS Africa Workshop, Jessica Winegar (Anthropology, Northwestern University)

“Developing Youth through the Arts: An Egyptian Project”

November 1

Brian Larkin (Anthropology, Columbia University) “Islam, Christianity and the Medial Base of Religious Movements”

November 15

DAAS Africa Workshop, Siba N’Zatioula Grovogui (Political Science, Cornell University) “An Empire of Morals Revisited: Universalism, Rights Talk, and Cosmopolitan Imaginaries”

November 14-18

Youth Activism Conference, WITS-UM

November 29

Emma Park (History PhD Candidate – UM) “ ‘Tropicalising’ Technologies: Enacting Radio and the Politics of Scale in Colonial Kenya”

December 6

Africa Workshop, Yolanda Covington-Ward (Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh) “ ‘We Do Not Want Chiefs Anymore’: Embodiment, Kongo Prophetism, and the Right to Self-Determination in the Belgian Congo (1921)”

December 13

Hiruy Tefera (UMAPS) “A New Paradigm for Museums in Ethiopia”

Netsanet Weldesenbet (UMAPS) "City, Memory and its metaphors: encountering the social and political Asmara 1950-1975"