Tuesdays, 12:30 - 2:00 PM in 223 Moses Hall
Also see our Online calendar for these and other events.
January 23
Women on Africa's constitutional and supreme courts: When, where, and why?
Alice Kang, Associate Professor, Political Science and Ethnic Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincol
January 30
A Story of Subversion, A Story of Anticipation
Hallie Wells, PhD Candidate, Anthropology, UC Berkeley
February 6
The Fante Confederation never happened: silence, space, and the earnest historian in West Africa
Trevor Getz, Professor and Chair, History, San Francisco State University
February 13
Africanisation and Government Intelligence: the Politics of Security in the Gold Coast, 1948-1957
Chase Arnold, PhD Candidate, History, UC Berkeley
February 20
Distributive politics for an urbanizing continuent: A view from Ghana
Jeffrey Paller, Assistant Professor, Politics, University of San Francisco
February 27
Understanding the Tunisian Anomaly: An Inquiry into a History of Reform
Safwan Masri, Executive Vice President, Global Centers and Global Development and Senior Research Scholar, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Youtube video of lecture: https://youtu.be/9RTRjkFixik
March 6
Can agriculture technologies change gender dynamics and food security? Pump it Up for the Women’s Community Gardens in Zimbabwe
Naama Raz-Yaseef, Project Scientist, Earth & Environmental Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
March 13
A Theory of Land and Electoral Violence: Evidence From Kenya
Kathleen Klaus, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Wesleyan University
March 20
When Attachments Fail: Psychiatry, Space, and History in South Africa
Stephen McIsaac, PhD Candidate, Anthropology, UC Berkeley
March 27
Spring Break
April 3
Colin Walch, Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer, Political Science, UC Berkeley
April 10
Alex Kroeger, Lecturer, Political Science, UC Merced
April 17
Adeola Oni-Orisan, MD and Phd Candidate, Medical Anthropology, UC San Francisco/UC Berkeley
April 24 - location to be updated
Anne-Maria Makhulu, Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African and African American Studies, Duke University
TBA
