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Our events are designed to further the knowledge and experience
of African scholarly work in the greater community.
If you would like to receive regular updates about PAS events
via email, please contact: african-studies@northwestern.edu.
Click here for printable Calendar of Events.
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April |
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Friday 4
12:00 pm
"Neoliberal Borderlands: Thinking Through Ethnography and International Political Economy in Africa "
Brenda Chaflin
, Anthropology, University of Florida
Location: PAS, 620 Library Place, Evanston Campus
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Monday 7
4:00 pm
"Islam and Laicité in Niger"
Abdoulaye Sounaye, Religion, Northwestern University, Carter Fellow
Location: PAS, 620 Library Place, Evanston Campus |
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Wednesday 9
12:00 pm
"Struggles in Male Circumcision Among the Gisu in 20th Century Uganda"
Pamela Khanakwa, History, Northwestern University
Location: PAS, 620 Library Place, Evanston Campus
Thursday 10
12:00 pm
"Ethno-Religious and Cultural Contours of West African Households in Early 18th and Late 19th Centuries in Ottoman-Tunisia"
Ismael Montana, History, Northern Illinois University
Location: PAS, 620 Library Place, Evanston Campus
Wednesday 16
12:00 pm
"Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintergration from a Local Perspective: The Case of Sierra Leone"
Natacha Lemasle, Political Science, Northwestern University
Location: PAS, 620 Library Place, Evanston Campus
Monday 21
4:00 pm
"Modern Art in an Ancient Kingdom: Art in Benin 1950 to the Present"
Kate Ezra
, Art History, Columbia College of Chicago
Location: PAS, 620 Library Place, Evanston Campus
Friday 25
12:00 pm
"Why Are Market Associations So Strong in West Africa?"
Gracia Clark, Anthropology, Indiana University
Location: PAS, 620 Library Place, Evanston Campus
Monday 28
4:00 pm
"Knowing the Post-colony: Socialist Government, Sources and the Sociologist's Assistant"
Gregory Mann, History, Columbia University
Location: PAS, 620 Library Place, Evanston Campus
Wednesday 30
12:00 pm
"Muslim Movements of Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa in the 20th Century: Patterns and Peculiarities "
Roman Loimeier, Religion , U of Florida
Location: PAS, 620 Library Place, Evanston Campus
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May
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Thursday 1
5:30 pm
Film Screening: 'Watoto wa Mitaani/ Children of the Streets' with Filmmaker Michael Stewart
This documentary seeks to discover the personality of five boys in Tanzania and to understand the large scale circumstances that confront them daily.
Location: Forum Room, Main Library, Evanston Campus
Friday 2
12:00 pm
"Towards a Better Understanding of Urban Change: Urbanization, National Development and Inequality in Ghana"
Jacob Songsore
, Dean, School of Research and Graduate Studies, University of Ghana- Legon
Location: PAS, 620 Library Place, Evanston Campus
Wednesday 7
12:00 pm
"What is 'Our Culture'?: On Difference, Diaspora, and Dance"
Mecca Zabriskie , Sociology, Northwestern University
Location: PAS, 620 Library Place, Evanston Campus
Monday 12
4:00 pm
"Making Love in the Indian Ocean Hindi Films, Zanzibari Audiences and the Rise of Romantic Love in the 1950s"
Laura Fair, History, Michigan State University
Location: PAS 620, Library Place, Evanston Campus
Wednesday 14
12:00 pm
"African Intellectuals React to Sarkozy's speech in Dakar: Presenting 'L'Afrique Respond á Sarkozy"
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Location: PAS 620, Library Place, Evanston Campus
Monday 19
4:00 pm
"The Gender of Optimism in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Matigari"
Evan Mwangi, English, Northwestern University
Location: PAS 620 Library Place, Evanston Campus
Wednesday 21
12:00 pm
"A Comparative Linguistic Approach to the History of Culinary Practice in Bantu-Speaking Africa"
Birgit Ricquier , Linguistics, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Visiting Scholar, Northwestern University
Location: PAS, 620 Library Place, Evanston Campus
Thursday 22
12:00 pm
"The Musician is the Messenger! Islam and Jaliya in Mandinka Music"
Blake Walker , Herskovits Scholar, School of Music, Northwestern University
Location: PAS, 620 Library Place, Evanston Campus
Wednesday 28
12:00 pm
"Staging the African: Transnational Flows of West African Dance and Cultural Identity"
Esailama Diouf, Performance Studies, Northwestern University
Location: PAS, 620 Library Place, Evanston Campus
Thursday 29
12:00 pm
"Dennis Brutus and South African Rugby"
Adam Philipp, Herskovits Scholar, History and Political Science, Northwestern University
Location: PAS 620, Library Place, Evanston Campus
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June |
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Monday 2
4:00 pm
Cheikhouna Lo
, ISITA Visiting Scholar
Location: PAS, 620 Library Place, Evanston Campus
Wednesday 4
12:00 pm
"Co-Performer Witnessing in Cape Verde: Reflections on Ethnographic Methods and Performance Scholarship"
Christina McMahon
, Theater and Drama, Northwestern University
Location: PAS, 620 Library Place, Evanston Campus
Thursday 5
3:00- 6:00 pm
PAS end-of-year Picnic
More information to come
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