Spring 2022 Africa Matters Seminar

Thursdays, 4:00-5:00 PM Pacific Time

UPDATE

Our final session of the year on Thursday 12 May with Peer Schouten will be a hybrid event, held in the Matrix, 820 Social Science Building and online via Zoom. Please RSVP at this link: https://forms.gle/AnGvsddUkQi3uk9w5.

Register for Zoom using the following link: https://berkeley.zoom.us/webinar/register/5416451464545/WN_7YR4TLmUSLWJ3w8Cri4xYw

Download a flyer for the May 12 event with Peer Schouten

SPRING 2022 SCHEDULE

February 24 (Zoom) | Research Talk

Family Matters: Gendered Candidate Selection by Party Gatekeepers

Melanie L. Phillips

March 3 | Research Talk
Barriers to women empowerment: evidence from the local governance and the informal apprenticeship sectors in Senegal

Mame Mor Anta Syll

March 17 | Research Talk
Consider the Source: Individual Variation in Reporting Electoral Violence
Dr. Arsène Brice Bado

March 31 | Research Talk
Evidence for discontinuous harmony from three West African languages
Hannah Sande

April 14 (Zoom) |Research Talk

Can or will Africa become a knowledge society or economy by 2063? Challenges faced by higher education and science systems in Africa
Nelson Casimiro Zavale

April 28 (Zoom) | Book Talk
Militarizing Marriage: West African Soldiers and French Empire
Sarah Zimmerman

May 12 | Book Talk
Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Central Africa
Peer Schouten

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 with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7 days in advance of the event.