2017-2018
AHAW and Africa Workshop Schedule
2017-2018
All workshops will take place Tuesdays from 4-6PM in 4701 Haven Hall
FALL 2017
September
19 AHAW, Third-year Graduate Student Grant Writing Workshop: Promise McEntire (Anthropology), Kristen Connor (Anthro-History), Tara Weinberg (History), Sauda Nabukenya (History)
26 Africa Workshop, Professor Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi, University of Western Ontario, "Temporalities of Lesbian Literary History: Chinelo Okparanta & Flora Nwapa.”
October
3 AHAW, Professor Holly Hanson (History, Mt. Holyoke College): "The Modernity that Might Have Been: How Ugandans Lost Mechanisms of Accountability in the Transition to Independence"
24 Africa Workshop, Emilie Diouf, Brandeis University, "And So They Say, Your Pain is Ours": The Flow of African Women Refugees' Stories in Global Human Rights.”
31 AHAW, Dr. Moses Muhumuza (Mountains of the Moon University, Uganda; UMAPS), “Melting a way of a cultural identity: Can ecological problems be fixed by a cultural solution in a rural African setting?”; and Senyo Adzei (University of Cape Coast, Ghana; UMAPS), Title TBD
November
7 Africa Workshop, Ray Silverman, University of Michigan, "Painting and Piety: Contemporary Visual Practice in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church.”
14 AHAW, Graduate Student Workshop: Sara Katz (History), “Oil Boom, Spiritual Insecurities, and the “Corrupt Pilgrim” and Allison Martino (Art History), excerpt from dissertation titled, "Stamping History: Stories of Social Change in Ghana's Adinkra Cloth."
16-18 African Studies Association (ASA) Annual meeting in Chicago
December
12 AHAW, Professor Sanyu Mojola (Sociology, University of Michigan), “Navigating Aging, Sexuality and HIV/AIDS in a rural South African community.”
WINTER 2018
January
9 AHAW, Graduate Student Workshop: Doreen Kembabazi (History, University of Michigan) and Benedito Machava (History, University of Michigan)
16 Africa Workshop, Zachariah Mampilly
23 AHAW, Dr. Pamela Khanakwa (Makerere University, Uganda; UMAPS) and Yikunnoamlak Zerabiruk (Addis Ababa University; UMAPS)
February
6 AHAW, Graduate Student Workshop: Nicholas Sweet (Anthropology, University of Michigan), "Joking Relationships in Interaction: Genres of Verbal Play in Southeastern Senegal", and Quincy Amoah (Anthropology, Princeton University), “Birding Twins: A Karimojong Reassessment of a Nuer Controversy”
15 Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. Edda Fields-Black (Carnegie Mellon University), Title TBD. 1014 Tisch Hall, 4-6PM.
March
6 AHAW, Professor George Paul Meiu (Anthropology, Harvard University), “Plastic Panics: Masculinity, Materiality, and Citizenship in Kenya”
27 AHAW, Professor Harri Englund (Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge), Title TBD
April
10 Africa Workshop, Professor Sana Ayar, Title TBD
17 AHAW, Professor Jean Allman (History, Washington University Saint Louis), Title TBD, Draft of Presidential Address for African Studies Association annual meeting 2018