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W. E. B. Du Bois, Education, and Archaeology in Egypt: An Overlooked Chapter in the History of Egyptology

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Vanessa Davies, Visiting Scholar Researcher, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley Recently discovered correspondence from the early twentieth century has shed light on a disagreement between W. E. B. Du Bois and W. M...

Spring Colloquium with NoViolet Bulawayo

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This week’s Hutchins Center Spring Colloquium lecture features NoViolet Bulawayo, Jones Lecturer in Fiction at Stanford University, presenting “Glory.” NoViolet Bulawayo is the author of We Need New Names (May 2013) which has been recognized with the LA...

8th Annual African Development Conference At Harvard University

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Africa: Imagining New Frontiers for Collaboration revisits the enduring, yet dynamic and elusive, concept of “Pan-Africanism” as it takes shape in the twenty-first century and invites conversations on the increasing importance of cross-border and...

From universal access to universal treatment: the promise and challenge of HIV treatment as prevention in South Africa

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Boston University’s weekly Walter Rodney seminars are held Mondays at noon in the B.U. African Studies Center. This week’s seminar features Jacob Bor, Assistant Professor and Peter T. Paul Career Development Professor in the Department of Global Health at...

Book Event: Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa

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Please join us as Ousmane Kane, Harvard Divinity School’s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society and Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, discusses his recent...

African Studies Workshop Featuring Derek Hook

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Derek Hook is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh. He will present “Petrified life – post–apartheid temporality.” Mark Geraghty, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard University Mahindra Humanities Center, will be the...

Lemurs: Endangered Gardeners of Madagascar’s Rainforests

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Many plant species in Madagascar’s highly diverse forests have fruits that are eaten by lemurs, a primate group native to Madagascar. Lemurs disperse the seeds of these plants throughout the forest with their scat. This seed dispersal process plays a...

Race, Representation, and Museums Lecture Series: Anxieties about Race in Egyptology and Egyptomania 1890–1960

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Despite ideals of scientific and scholarly objectivity, both Egyptologists and non-specialists have often projected their own racial anxieties onto ancient Egypt. Recurrent attempts to prove that the ancient Egyptians were white or black, for example...

Boston University Graduate Student Conference in African Studies

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The 25th Annual Boston University Graduate Student Conference in African Studies. The conference will be held at Boston University on April 7-8, 2017. This year’s conference will feature the work of emerging graduate scholars engaging Africa from a...

Misreading the evidence of post-genocide fallouts in Rwanda and Burundi: An exercise in self-criticism

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Boston University’s weekly Walter Rodney seminars are held Mondays at noon in the B.U. African Studies Center. This week’s seminar features René Lemarchand, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at the University of Florida Gainesville...

African Studies Workshop Featuring Myles Osborne

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Myles Osborne is Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado Boulder. He will present “Rastafari and Reparations: Nation and Community in Jamaica and Kenya.” Lowell Brower, a doctoral candidate in African & African American Studies at...

African Studies Workshop Featuring Abidemi Babalola

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Abidemi Babalola is 2016-2017 McMillan-Stewart Fellow at the W.E.B Du Bois Institute, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University. He will present “Centering Africa in the global history of technological innovation and...