Past Events

February
10
  • The Producing Knowledge In and Of Africa and the African Diaspora Series
Date
Thu February 10th 2022, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Speaker:
Parisa Vaziri, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University

Zar, a constellation of belief and therapeutic response to spirit winds, has long been considered a ritual trace attesting to the movement of African slavery in the Indian Ocean world.…

January
28
Date
Fri January 28th 2022, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location
Zoom
Speaker:
Inua Ellams, Ato Quayson, Professor Ato Quayson

Born in Nigeria in 1984, Inua Ellams is an internationally touring poet, playwright, performer, graphic artist, and designer.

January
20
  • The Producing Knowledge In and Of Africa and the African Diaspora Series
Date
Thu January 20th 2022, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Speaker:
Dr. Cajetan Iheka, Associate Professor of English, Yale University

Join us for a conversation with Dr. Cajetan Iheka on his new book, African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics.

December
1
Date
Wed December 1st 2021, 12:00pm - 1:00pm

This talk will focus on the social politics of inequality in Africa, through an examination of disease, public health, violence, and social suffering as organizing frameworks for both historical…

November
17
Date
Wed November 17th 2021, 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Through a discussion of his newly published book The New Apartheid, Dr.

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