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Past Events

November
12
  • Africa Table
Date
Wed November 12th 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location
Encina Commons
615 Crothers Way, Stanford, CA 94305
Room 123

Session Desciption: Two multimedia abstract painting movements, the Black-Caribbean School and Vohou-Vohou, took shape starting in the late 1960s, mostly in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, but also…

November
5
Date
Wed November 5th 2025, 5:00pm
Location
Encina Commons
615 Crothers Way, Stanford, CA 94305
123

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for South Asia, the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, and the Center for African Studies.

October
29
  • Africa Table
Date
Wed October 29th 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location
Encina Commons
615 Crothers Way, Stanford, CA 94305
Room 123

This talk brings to the table tailings of a new project on the struggle for “New African Music” (so-called by the Union of Southern African Artists from 1953).

October
22
Date
Wed October 22nd 2025, 4:30pm - 6:30pm
Location
Encina Commons
615 Crothers Way, Stanford, CA 94305
Room 123

The Center for African Studies is pleased to invite you to our annual Welcome Reception on Wednesday, October 22, 2025, from 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM in Encina Commons,…

October
15
  • Africa Table
Date
Wed October 15th 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Session Description: Gender and women’s studies should be front and centre when scholars investigate, cogitate, and write about coups in the discipline of politics, since coups are decidedly…