African Studies Workshop featuring David William Cohen

David William Cohen is a Lemuel A. Johnson Collegiate Professor of African history and anthropology at the University of Michigan. He will be presenting “Delicate Histories: Unsettled Pasts and the Will to Closure (Towards a history of precolonial Busoga, Uganda.”

A week in advance, the presenter’s paper will be circulated through the Harvard African Studies Workshop listserv. It is assumed that everyone has read the paper before the workshop. After presentation and commentary, Workshop attendees are invited to engage in critique and discussion, under the moderation of the Workshop Chair.