CAS Brown Bag Series - Spring 2025 - Building African Studies Community

Brown Bag Series is at 12 Noon. The days of week and location vary slightly.

Also see our Online calendar for these and other events. Title links below go to the individual events in the online calendar.

• Thursday, February 13, 340 Stephens Hall – Hamzah Baig, Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Santa Barbara. A Wind from the South: The Algerian Revolution, Settler Colonial Internationalism, and the Third World Radical Imagination. Co-sponsored by Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

• Thursday, February 20, 340 Stephens Hall – S.E.Freeman, PhD Candidate, Geography, UC Berkeley, The Politics of Numbers: Data and Displacement in South Sudan.

• Wednesday, March 12,  340 Stephens Hall – Yonatan Binyam, Assistant Professor, Ancient Mediterranean & Ethiopic Studies, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley. From the Bellum Judaicum to the Zena Ayhud (ዜና አይሁድ): Receptions of Josephus in Medieval Ethiopic Literature. Co-sponsored by Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

• Thursday, April 17, 201 Philosophy Hall (subject to change)  – Abdulbasit Kassim, IDEAL Provostial Fellow/Lecturer, Stanford University, The Sahelian Science of Creedal Education: A Source-Critical Study of Imam Bajuri’s Tuḥfat al-Murīd ʿalá Jawharat Tawḥīd. Co-sponsored by Center for Middle Eastern Studies. 

ACCESSIBILITY

If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) to fully participate in these webinar sessions, please contact Martha Saavedra at asc@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail) with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7 days in advance of the event.