Calendar
SPRING 2013
January 28 – Janet McIntosh
Presenting Linguistic Atonement: Penitence and Privilege in White Kenyan Language Ideologies
February 4 – John Mugane
Presenting Linguistic Incarceration: Rethinking Language Learning from the Global South – Watch the presentation now!
February 11 – Julie Livingston
Presenting After Antiretrovirals, During Cancer, Before Death in an African Oncology Ward - Watch the presentation now!
February 25 – Jacob Olupona
Presenting The Changing Face of Religion in the City of 201 Gods
March 4 – Mark Geraghty
Presenting Gacaca, jenocide
March 11 – Janet Roitman
Presenting Africa, Otherwise
March 25 – Lauren Coyle
Postponed until Fall 2013
April 1 – Jacqueline Bhabha
Presenting Adolescence: A chimera, a luxury or a right?
April 8 – Charles Piot
Presenting After Colonialism
April 15 – Caroline Elkins
Presenting (Re)Writing the History of British Decolonization
April 22 – Rosalind Morris
Presenting Class.Sate.Fetish: At Marikana, after the End of Apartheid
April 26 – HAW Conference with keynote speaker Jim Ferguson
Conference entitled The State of Extractive Economies in Contemporary Africa
April 29 – Michael Ralph
Presenting The Question of Liability: Debt, Force, and Accountability, in Senegal
FALL 2012
September 10th – Achille Mbembe
Presenting Africa in Theory – Watch the presentation now!
September 17th – Ingrid Monson
Presenting the introduction to her upcoming book Kenedougou Visions: Mali’s Neba Solo and Senufo Balafon
September 24th – George Paul Meiu
Presenting Beach-Boy Elders and Young Big-Men: Queering the Temporalities of Aging in Kenya’s Ethno-Erotic Economies – Watch the presentation now!
October 1st – Duncan Kennedy
Presenting African Poverty – Watch the presentation now!
October 15th – Hlonipha Mokoena
Presenting “I See A Different You”: Township Aesthetics, Fashion and the Emergence of Self-Representational Photography in Post-Apartheid South Africa - Watch the presentation now!
October 22nd – Joshua Walker
Presenting Torn Dollars and War-Wounded Banknotes: Money, Exchange, and Materiality in the Democratic Republic of Congo - Watch the presentation now!
October 29th – Neville Hoad
Presenting Traditional Modernity: Homosexuality and Customary Law in South Africa
November 5th – Biodun Jeyifo
Presenting Language, Servitude, Freedom: For and Against Ngugi - Watch the presentation now!
Novermber 12th – Anita Hannig
Presenting Of Doctors and Priests: Biomedical Expertise and the Problem of Recognition at an Ethiopian Medical Institution
November 19th – Suzanne Blier
Presenting The Lady is a Tramp: Art, Protest, and Sexual Provocation, a Nigerian Story
While there is no Harvard Africa Workshop on November 26th, the Committee encourages interested participants to attend Kenedougou Visions, presentation by Radcliffe Fellow and Committee member Professor Ingrid Monson.
December 3rd – Kerry Chance
Presenting “Where There is Fire, There is Politics”: Ungovernability in Democratic South Africa
