# African Studies Workshop Featuring Hannah Appel #### calendar\_today Date and Time **October 25, 2021** 02:00PM - 04:00PM EDT #### pin\_drop Location **Virtual Event** **Presenting:** *Pan African Capital* Discussant: James Smith (University of California, Davis) **Hannah Appel** is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Global Studies at UCLA, where she also serves as the Associate Director of the Institute on Inequality & Democracy. Her work focuses on transnational capitalism; finance, debt and debtors’ unions; the African continent’s place in global capitalism; the economic imagination; anti-capitalist and abolitionist social movements. She is also co-founder and organizer with the Debt Collective. Her first book, [*The Licit Life of Capitalism*](https://anthro.ucla.edu/publication/the-licit-life-of-capitalism/)*,* is both an account of a specific capitalist project—U.S. oil companies working off the shores of Equatorial Guinea—and a theorization of more general forms and processes that facilitate diverse capitalist projects around the world. She is currently working on a second long-term ethnographic project—*Pan African Capital: Finance, Banking, and Economic Self-Fashioning*—to continue her inquiry into the licit life of capitalism, and the displacement of how and from where we think about global capitalism. *Pan African Capital* is a multi-sited project based on ethnographic work with transnational, African-owned banks and financial institutions on the continent. \-- A week in advance, the presenter’s paper will be circulated through the [Harvard African Studies Workshop listserv.](https://harvard.us14.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=67898885d6e13eb08265a97f7&id=979b2664d1) 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 Chairs. **View workshop recordings here: ** **ORGANIZER(S):** Harvard University Center for African Studies **EVENT WEBSITE: [https://africa.harvard.edu/african-studies-workshop-0](/african-studies-workshop-0)** See also:- [ African Studies Workshop ](/workshops-conferences/african-studies-workshop) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://africa.harvard.edu/node/1607200/event-feed.ics) Copy link link