For almost two decades, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies has coordinated the Africa Workshop series and has invited researchers from around the world to share their latest work to enthusiastic audiences. By focusing on presentations by scholars dedicated to examining the continent of Africa and its diaspora, the campus community is kept up to date on the most recent work of their colleagues. In 2008, with the establishment of the African Studies Center in the International Institute, DAAS gained a collaborator and cosponsor and the Africa Workshop remains a major programmatic component for both entities.
2023-2024 Workshops
Tuesdays, 4:00 p.m., 4701 Haven Hall (DAAS Conference Room)
September 19, 2023
Practicing Reparative History: Sites and Dilemmas in Rwanda
Delia Wendel, Assistant Professor of Urban Studies and International Development, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
November 7, 2023
Flipping the script to turn the tide: Wresting African land futures from the Western imagination
Laura German, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Integrative Conservation Research, University of Georgia
December 5, 2023
Petronoir African Cinema: Reading Recent African Films for Energy
Carmela Garritano, Associate Professor of International Affairs, Texas A&M University
January 23, 2024
Themes: transnational capitalism and finance, debt, the extractive sector
Hannah Chadeayne Appel, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Director of the Institute on Inequality + Democracy, University of California Los Angeles
February 20, 2024
Themes: social, cultural, and economic impact of multinational alcohol companies in Ethiopia
Christina Collins, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Indiana University Bloomington
March 12, 2024
The Long 1948: Human Rights, Humanity, and the Pacification of Madagascar
Oumar Ba, Assistant Professor of Government, Cornell University
