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Between Culture and Code: A study of Organizational & Intercultural Comms, Gender & Digital Labor
This talk shares findings from Bolu Owoeye's research on how Nigerian women remote workers navigate intercultural communication in global digital workplaces. Drawing on in-depth interviews, the study reveals how culture, gender, language, and technology shape daily interactions between Nigerian workers and colleagues from the US, UK, Canada, and other countries.
AI-assisted Archives of West African History
What happens when AI meets West African archives?
In this webinar, Professor Trevor Getz presents History Genie, a Stanford-built research tool, and leads a frank discussion about ethics, data sovereignty, classroom use, and governance.
Gender is the Stuff of Coups
Dr. Miles Tendi, a professor of politics at the University of Oxford, leads the discussion on how gender and women’s studies should be at the forefront when scholars analyze, reflect on, and write about coups in the discipline of politics, since coups are inherently gendered events in terms of their motivations, justifications, enactments, and aftermaths.
On November 11, 2024, the Center for African Studies hosted the Centering Africa Annual Lecture at Levinthal Hall, featuring acclaimed Zimbabwean writer, filmmaker, and activist Tsitsi Dangarembga. In her talk, Dangarembga explored her decades-long efforts to empower Zimbabwean women through literature and film, offering insights into identity, gender, and social change. The lecture highlighted her groundbreaking Tambudzai Trilogy—Nervous Conditions, The Book of Not, and This Mournable Body (Booker Prize 2020 finalist)—and her creative and activist work’s theoretical foundations.
Gebru discusses why she founded The Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR) and what she hopes this interdisciplinary, community-based, global network of AI researchers can accomplish.